Comments on: Paying for bad sex

By: Sandy Price

Sandy Price — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It was a constant worry when our kids and relatives were in Vietnam and their R & R time spent in many Asian cities. Am I to understand that our Vets are not receiving innoculations at this time? Do they not have the proper medications when they do visit those famous prostitution brothels? How many will be coming home with AIDs and inflicting the family members here at home?

What the hell is our government doing? I cannot finds fault with our vets who have volunteered to do their duty on the battlefield, but they are men! How many American babies will be left in Iraq when they do return home? Americans are supposed to be civilized but under wartime conditions we are simply human beings.

By: Cashel Boylo

Cashel Boylo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Out of first hand reports of the horrors of the sufferings of Imperial Japan’s “Comfort Women,” we have pictures like this:–
“500 or 600 American soldiers standing in line on the street,” Seiichi Kaburagi, the chief of public relations for the RAA, wrote in a 1972 memoir. He said American MPs were barely able to keep the troops under control.
“Charge for a short session with a prostitute was 15 yen, or about a dollar, roughly the cost of half a pack of cigarettes.”
By the end of 1945, about 350,000 U.S. troops were occupying Japan. At its peak, Kaburagi wrote, the RAA employed 70,000 prostitutes to serve them.
MacArthur’s Occupation HQ organized the brothels for American troops.
However, disclosure of the brothels threatened to embarrass the occupation forces back in the U.S. On March 25, 1946, MacArthur placed all brothels, comfort stations and other places of prostitution off limits.
By that time, Tanaka says, more than a quarter of all American GIs in the occupation forces had a sexually transmitted disease.
Presumably, Rumsfeld and Rice have organized similar “comfort” facilities for the U.S. troops in Iraq.
Presumably, about one quarter of all of them now have a sexually transmitted disease and are presently re-transmitting it throughout the general American population.
Consider a quarter of all the troops who have served in Iraq and are now back in the States.

Cashel Boylo

By: Persona non grata

Persona non grata — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“So it goes” Vonnegut