The sex lives and sexual frustrations of US troops in Iraq
December 29th, 2005
A new article of mine The Sex Lives and Sexual Frustrations of US troops in Iraq: An Ocean of Ignorance is now available on OpEdNews:
EXCERPT:
Well over a hundred thousand American men and women, most younger than 30, spend a year or more at a time in a foreign country where they are almost totally isolated from the indigenous population. Are all these troops really chaste for those long periods, as called for my military regulations?
What is going on sexually among US troops in Iraq is one of the great untold and unknown stories of the Iraqi occupation. As I have followed the course of this war, I have paid careful attention to any glimmers on information available. Having read perhaps 30,000-50,000 articles on Iraq, I’ve seen at most a couple dozen mentions of anything related to sex, other than the systematic sexual abuse and sometime rape of detainees at Abu Graib and the other US prisons. Of course, military regulations ban sex out of marriage, but these regulation have about as great a chance of being obeyed as the US has of obtaining the “total victory” that the President is always promising….
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1. Dale | December 29th, 2005 at 3:20 pm
I was quite interested in your article in OpEdNews. I too am always interested in sexual behaviors and how we as a society deal with them. I work at a community college in East Tennessee and have had the unique chance to talk with several students who have returned from Iraq and are currently attending college.
One student I met and had many open discussions with told me that sex was easy to get in Iraq. On our third deep discussion he told me that many of the soldiers in his unit would give families a case of bottled water in exchange for sex with a daughter. He stated that often soldiers would guard the home while fellow soldiers were inside having sex with someone from the home. It could be a wife or a daughter since water was a commodity of necessity. It is his story that the sex was offered to them in exchange for the water.
I will not see him again until school starts in mid-january. I will ask that he contact you by e-mail to provide more details. He really did want people to hear what he had to say but also had a fear of who he discussed this with.
I realize that what I am posting is only heresay and cannot be used as truthful. It is my desire that someone reading this might use this story to see if it can help others talk or someone who was there may read and confirm their knowlege of these kinds of incidents happening.
Sincerely
Dale
Knoxville, Tennessee