The harms of base-area prostitution reach troops’ families back home

Evidence

Ultimately, the effects of military prostitution are felt not just by women abroad whose bodies are used and too often abused, trafficked, and exploited. They’re also felt by the family members, co-workers, and others who share the troops’ lives. Unlike the Las Vegas fantasy, what goes on in the camptowns doesn’t stay in the camptowns. And as we will see, the attitudes fostered by commercial sex zones and by the military more broadly about men and women, dominance and power carry over dangerously into GIs’ lives—both on base and at home. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 551

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• XREF: Connects to link notes on ‘what goes on in camptowns doesn’t stay’ — echoes Vance Packard and the spillover-home dynamic. This is the main pay-off of the anecdote in 549-550.