Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil
I realize this article is talking about the World Wars, but I’m pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that a soldier was drummed out of the Continental Army for attempted sodomy.
As was rape, murder, theft and other crimes. So what is your point?
Craig Claiborne....please pick up the courtesy phone
Before mass media hypersexualized everything and modern grooming and hygeine made being in proximity to another human body appealing, sex was not as interesting a proposition as it can be nowadays. Further, homosexual sex had a much greater social stigma back then, it wasn’t like there was an easy way for a man to elicit a sex act from another man without a whole lot of risk. And that is before you stick everyone together in a crowded muddy trench and subject them to artillery fire.
This guy is just wishcasting.
Does the author know that armed troops during wartime have been known to shoot someone that they don’t like?
Why don’t they document the factual history of rampant homosexuality in the upper echelons of the Third Reich?
We all know that Patton topped Montgomery in Tunisia while the latter was wearing a lace teddy.
There was probably rape, theft, child molestation, prostitution, and bigamists, too. What’s their point?
Gore Vidal used to say that. He thought it was much more common than it was.
Or outright lies.
The reason gays were banned from the military is because of complaints of gays raping fellow solders in the early wars.
What stereotype of British masculinity?
The English are notorious for buggery.
Come now, we are talking about the British army, not the British navy.
I knew two fellow soldiers at Bragg were gay but they kept to themselves, did their job and nobody made anything of it. With much alcohol involved a bunch of us decided the Army needed an all gay combat battalion. Reason 1) You always fight harder for the one you love, 2) We wouldn’t lose a whole generation because they aren’t going to breed any way, 3) The enemy across the battlefield always knows who they are fighting and didn’t want lose to a bunch of pansies (well trained, equipped and motivated pansies) and they damn sure didn’t want to get captured.