British colonial commanders licensed and housed prostitutes within view of barracks
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Hence, military leaders across the centuries have endeavored not just to provide troops with sex but also to control their access to it. Controlling access to sex has meant controlling women and their sexual labor: restricting them to particular areas, mandating health inspection cards, and so forth. In colonial India, Britain’s 1864 Cantonment Acts gave British commanders the power to bring Indian sex workers into military camps, license them as prostitutes, subject the women to medical exams, and house them in brothels called chaklas within view of soldiers’ barracks. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 547
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