Korean and U.S. authorities jointly institutionalized military prostitution

Evidence

After a military junta seized power in South Korea in a 1961 coup, Korean officials created legally recognized “special districts” for businesses catering to U.S. troops and off-limits to Koreans. American military police could arrest sex workers without health inspection cards, and U.S. doctors treated women with sexually transmitted diseases at detention centers given names such as “the monkey house.” In 1965, 85 percent of GIs surveyed reported having “been with” or “been out with” a prostitute. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 485

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the immodesty/moral regulation theme: state-managed sex districts enforced by health-card policing and forced treatment echo how states regulate sexuality around perceived outsiders.