Providing paid commercial sex keeps troops financially dependent and enlisted

Evidence

Over the centuries, militaries have attempted to solve their constant labor needs in a variety of ways. After providing troops with cash, food, and housing, plying them with easy access to commercial sex has been one of the most popular strategies. That troops generally have had to pay for this readily available sex has only benefited militaries further: as working-class men burn through their pay (and, not infrequently, go into debt), their dependence on a military salary helps keep them enlisted. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 545 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Militaries use paid access to sex to deepen troops’ dependence on military salaries — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 545

Related

• Militaries use paid access to sex to deepen troops’ dependence on military salaries (similarity 0.95)
• Intimate relationships can challenge the military’s monopoly on soldiers’ loyalty (similarity 0.87)
• Military tolerance of prostitution is limited by its threat to troop loyalty (similarity 0.84)
• Military leaders feared sex because relationships could compete with their monopoly on troops’ loyalty (similarity 0.83)
• Militaries have depended on unacknowledged women’s labor including sex work to function (similarity 0.82)
• Prostitution rose because conscription uprooted families and abandoned women (similarity 0.82)
• Military prostitution trains soldiers in a militarized masculinity marked by violence and superiority. (similarity 0.79)
• Military service raises the likelihood of sexual offending while lowering other crime rates (similarity 0.79)
• Military service raises men’s sex-crime imprisonment odds while lowering other crime rates (similarity 0.78)
• Militaries have long institutionalized prostitution as a tool to control soldiers’ labor (similarity 0.78)
• Military service specifically elevates sex-crime imprisonment rates while lowering other crime rates. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Militaries use paid access to sex to deepen troops’ dependence on military salaries #corroborates (0.90) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 545