Commercial sex zones have developed around U.S. bases worldwide.
Evidence
Commercial sex zones have developed around U.S. bases worldwide. Many look much the same, filled with liquor stores, fast-food outlets, tattoo parlors, bars and clubs, and prostitution in one form or another. The evidence is just outside the gates in places such as Baumholder and Kaiserslautern in Germany, and Kadena and Kin Town on Okinawa. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 478
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to earlier chapters’ discussion of host-country resentment and local impacts of bases.
Related
- Sex trade districts with uniform character develop outside U.S. bases worldwide (similarity 0.93)
- Overseas basing worsens sexual assault and fuels trafficking (similarity 0.84)
- Base-abroad conditions drive high rates of sexual assault and sex trafficking (similarity 0.83)
- U.S. wars and bases created sex industries across Okinawa, Thailand, and Vietnam. (similarity 0.82)
- One in three servicewomen is sexually assaulted, with base-abroad overrepresentation (similarity 0.82)
- The harms of base-area prostitution reach troops’ families back home (similarity 0.80)
- Military bases foster the specific conditions that enable rape across human societies (similarity 0.80)
- The social costs of military prostitution spread to families and communities beyond the bases (similarity 0.79)
- U.S. bases abroad are walled enclaves of plenty amid surrounding poverty (similarity 0.79)
- Military service raises the likelihood of sexual offending while lowering other crime rates (similarity 0.78)