Comments on: Sex Work And Compassion: A Call From Baghdad http://radicalvixen.com/blog/2009/02/03/sex-work-and-compassion-a-call-from-baghdad/ Peace. Porn. Politics. Thu, 24 May 2012 17:41:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: Amanda http://radicalvixen.com/blog/2009/02/03/sex-work-and-compassion-a-call-from-baghdad/#comment-142475 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:43:25 -0500 http://radicalvixen.com/blog/2009/02/03/sex-work-and-compassion-a-call-from-baghdad/#comment-142475 I would so love to go to Iraq and work. That's not feasible, but Dubai, Kuwait and Qatar are other options. These men need their humanity and the only way they can get it (in their situation) is through sex. That and the human touch is incredibly powerful and needed too. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. The military's public prudery has taken away one of the few things that could be helpful to both male and female soldiers. XX PS: The physical equivalent of his dead, flat voice is the 1000-yard stare. I would so love to go to Iraq and work. That’s not feasible, but Dubai, Kuwait and Qatar are other options. These men need their humanity and the only way they can get it (in their situation) is through sex. That and the human touch is incredibly powerful and needed too.

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. The military’s public prudery has taken away one of the few things that could be helpful to both male and female soldiers.

XX

PS: The physical equivalent of his dead, flat voice is the 1000-yard stare.

]]> by: Vixen http://radicalvixen.com/blog/2009/02/03/sex-work-and-compassion-a-call-from-baghdad/#comment-148514 Fri, 01 May 2009 22:12:27 -0500 http://radicalvixen.com/blog/2009/02/03/sex-work-and-compassion-a-call-from-baghdad/#comment-148514 Amanda-If only sex work was more respected because sending sex workers to help the soldiers is a great idea. Good point about the 1,000 yard stare. I hadn't thought about that. Amanda-If only sex work was more respected because sending sex workers to help the soldiers is a great idea.

Good point about the 1,000 yard stare. I hadn’t thought about that.

]]> by: willie makit http://radicalvixen.com/blog/2009/02/03/sex-work-and-compassion-a-call-from-baghdad/#comment-177449 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:01:56 -0600 http://radicalvixen.com/blog/2009/02/03/sex-work-and-compassion-a-call-from-baghdad/#comment-177449 As a Vietnam combat vet (126th light infantry) I can tell you a few thing you might have missed. 0NE.. . .This troop has no guarentees that things will get better. If he has experienced as much shit as I did in Vietnam thern there is a sad and real possibility that he is in all probability gonna be fuck up for life. (call it a living death) War does that as a fact of life to you if you are unlucky enuf to find your self in the shit. I know because I've been livin out her on the streets for quiet a while now. As a Vietnam combat vet (126th light infantry)
I can tell you a few thing you might have missed.
0NE.. . .This troop has no guarentees that things
will get better. If he has experienced as much
shit as I did in Vietnam thern there is a sad and
real possibility that he is in all probability
gonna be fuck up for life. (call it a living death) War does that as a fact of life to you
if you are unlucky enuf to find your self in the
shit. I know because I’ve been livin out her on the streets for quiet a while now.

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