Military prostitution

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French field brothel ( Bordel militaire de campagne ), Morocco, 1922
Soldiers brothel, Brest, 1940

Military prostitution is prostitution in the context of the military in peacetime and in war.

Recent history

In military history, prostitution extends from baggage trainers and camp whores to military brothels.

Since the military expansion of Japan from 1904 to 1920, Japanese women were sold abroad as prostitutes for the Japanese soldiers stationed there; it is estimated that around 100,000 women are affected. The Japanese military abducted approximately 200,000 girls and women aged 11 to 29 from former colonies of Japan such as Korea and Taiwan and from eleven occupied countries such as China , the Philippines and Indonesia during World War II from 1937 to 1945 to serve as " comfort women. " “To let work.

From the First World War to the Indochina War , France operated military brothels in the 20th century .

During the Second World War, the German Wehrmacht under General Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch set up around 500 Wehrmacht brothels in the occupied territories from summer 1940 , including in France, Poland, Italy and Norway. Lothar-Günther Buchheim described his impressions from Brest : "When a thick ship came in, the hookers simply stayed lying between the numbers." There was a disinfectant syringe in the urethra for the German soldiers. The rule was: “You are only allowed to visit the brothel approved by the troop leadership. Always use a condom (rubber protection) and get rehabilitated after intercourse. ”There was also forced prostitution by the German Wehrmacht.

During the Vietnam War (1955 to 1975), military prostitution arose in the US bases in the Philippines and Thailand .

meaning

Military prostitution is primarily aimed at strengthening and increasing the combat morale of the soldiers. The regulated, institutionalized access to sexual intercourse in military brothels is intended to prevent desertions , uncontrolled sexual contact with the enemy, infection of soldiers with sexually transmitted diseases , homosexuality and psychological decompensation .

Web links

Commons : Military prostitution  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Antje Hilbig, Claudia Kajatin, Ingrid Miethe: Women and violence: interdisciplinary studies on gender-based violence in theory and practice. Königshausen & Neumann, 2003.
  2. Barbara Drinck (ed.): Forced prostitution in times of war and peace. Conference documentation, 2004 ( online ( memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cp27.xsadmin.de
  3. Franz Seidler: "Prostitution, homosexuality, self-mutilation. Problems of the German medical service 1939-1945. Kurt Vowinckel Verlag. Neckargmünd; 323 pages.
  4. Information from: Helke Sander / Barbara Johr (eds.): Liberators and Liberated - War - Rape - Children. Frankfurt a. M. 2005, p. 65.
  5. Consecutive number . Der Spiegel, October 31, 1977
  6. Katharina Schiederig: The Sex Slavery of the Axis Powers. In: WeltTrends: Journal for International Politics, Vol. 14, H. 52, 2006, pp. 119–131. ISSN  0944-8101 .
  7. Thomas Gaevert, Martin Hilber: Women as booty. Wehrmacht and prostitution. ( Description ( Memento of February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )).
  8. Udo Gerheim: The production of the suitor: power in the field of prostitution. A sociological study. transcript Verlag, 2012.