Military prostitution trains soldiers in a militarized masculinity marked by violence and superiority.

Evidence

Institutionalized military prostitution draws on existing gender norms—cultural ideas about what it means to be a man and a woman—but it also intensifies these norms. It trains men to believe that using the sexual services of women is part of what it means to be a soldier and part of what it means to be a man. It helps shape what Enloe and others have called a “militarized masculinity,” involving feelings of power and superiority over women and a willingness to inflict violence on anyone deemed inferior. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 555

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘militarized masculinity’ by specifying its content: power over women and willingness to inflict violence on the inferior.
• XREF: Connects to the dehumanization-kills-theory in the next paragraph; also to Enloe’s broader feminist IR scholarship. — connects to: Militarized masculinity in camptowns drives GI bar fights in Seoul
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 555

Broader Connections

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