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    ceejeemcbeegee is not here: When our military thinks it's OK for men to rape a fellow soldier, what makes us think they'll give a flying fig about our foreign sisters? more »
    MizJenkins: Ah yes, and this would be why I get annoyed every time someone asks if my parents met in the war. more »
    LaFemme: This happens in every country where any foreign government is stationed for a long period of time going all the way back to the Crusades. I am less su... more »
    BlondeGrlz: Ok, prostitutes are not "recreation" - I don't care how long you've been in your barracks whacking it yourself. And I'm sure these women weren't livin... more »
    clonie: Quite a few of mom's Korean friends in America were former prostitutes that ended up marrying one of the men that they serviced and while most of them... more »
    clevernamehere: This is terrible. But then, I'm anti-legalized prositution. How do those are you who are pro-legalized prositution feel about it? I don't find it to b... more »
    amenfro: Now I know it's just a typo, but I wouldn't be shocked if the American government was giving women lesions in South Korea. more »
    morninggloria: The worst part of the US military's encouragement of prostitution is Miss Saigon. Let's pray that a sequal, Lady Seoul is not in the works. more »
    musicpup: In the words of my mother, who was stationed there for a while: D'OH. more »
    anonymiss: to add to this, after the war, there was a huge increase in the birth of mixed race children (white and korean, black and korean, etc.) to women in th... more »
    Shamrockette: Congrats to those women who are speaking out against prostitution! It takes a lot of courage to stand up to it. But I'm just so disgusted at how the U... more »
    beliefunwrought: Considering the origins of the term "Hooker" is this really that surprising? more »
    sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): I am shocked (shocked I tell you!) to learn that prostitution is going on in this military establishment. more »
    NefariousNewt: Next thing you'll be telling me is that the U.S. Government propped up the Shah of Iran and sold atomic weapon details to Saddam Hussein! more »
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    South Korea, U.S. Military Accused Of Encouraging Prostitution

    A group of former sex workers in South Korea have accused the South Korean government and the United States military of encouraging the sex trade near military bases from the 1960s through the 1980s. More »