LIVING: Should Female Soldiers Carry Condoms?
SodaHead Living
2010/05/19 23:00:07
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If you’ve seen the myriad videos of U.S. servicemen doing carefully choreographed in theater camouflaged dances to current dance hits in Afghanistan and Iraq, you know that when not dodging insurgent fire, our bravest have plenty of downtime on their hands.
Apparently, British troops have an equal amount of R&R time, since the Daily Telegraph recently reported that the country’s Ministry of Defense has begun an ad campaign in the Army magazine “Soldier” encouraging female soldiers and civilian staff to carry condoms with them. The campaign offers the sobering stat that “on deployment, there’ll be 50 blokes to each woman.”
Great odds … if you’re a woman, but while military rules prohibit sexual relationships between enlisted personnel in war zones, the rule is rarely enforced and between 2003 and 2009 at least 102 British servicewomen posted in Iraq were sent home after becoming pregnant; the figures in Afghanistan were lower at 31.
With female soldiers recently winning a long-sought repeal of the century-old ban on women serving in Navy submarines, maybe the British are onto something.
Do you think female soldiers should be encouraged to carry condoms?
Apparently, British troops have an equal amount of R&R time, since the Daily Telegraph recently reported that the country’s Ministry of Defense has begun an ad campaign in the Army magazine “Soldier” encouraging female soldiers and civilian staff to carry condoms with them. The campaign offers the sobering stat that “on deployment, there’ll be 50 blokes to each woman.”
Great odds … if you’re a woman, but while military rules prohibit sexual relationships between enlisted personnel in war zones, the rule is rarely enforced and between 2003 and 2009 at least 102 British servicewomen posted in Iraq were sent home after becoming pregnant; the figures in Afghanistan were lower at 31.
With female soldiers recently winning a long-sought repeal of the century-old ban on women serving in Navy submarines, maybe the British are onto something.
Do you think female soldiers should be encouraged to carry condoms?
Top Opinion
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LifeIsComedyPHAET 2010/05/20 01:28:19I think women soldiers should …
+11Here's an idea, why don't the men carry condoms also? Why does it have to be the females who have to carry all the responsibility? It takes TWO to tango.
And anyone who thinks that soldiers are superhuman and do not engage in sexual activity, especially during times of war, is just fooling themselves.
They're soldiers not clergy, and only human.
They wouldn't think of going into a war zone without their weapons.
Why would they go into a sexual situation without their protection?
1 pair desert combat boots - check
3 sets desert cammies - check
1 set deuce gear and harness - check
1 box of high-grade condoms - check
No ones making them after all.
'Cause that whole "just say no" idea doesn't ever work, does it?
I like how international this video is - British, Polish, Norwegian, American, Ukrainian, Canadian, German, Italian, Czech, and a few uniforms I couldn't recognise. How excellent for Afghans to see women doing these jobs.
People carry A LOT of stress while in war and sex is a huge stress reliever for them. Having condoms would help keep pregnancies down and the spread of STDs to a minimum.
Abstinence should still be taught. The less troops that are humping, the more troops you have to fight.