And having lived in Hawaii, where there is every branch of the military, I can tell you that the bars were filled with many more servicemembers, particularly getting drunk, than college students. The vast majority of those servicemembers at home were likely to simply hookup with someone from a bar, possibly even a drunken college student than with someone from their unit. Unit relationships were much more likely to be that, longer relationships rather than one-night-stands.
Plus, the military is cracking down hard on the purchasing of prostitutes, not so much on simply going out and hooking up in a bar (except in trying to ensure they don't take home someone who is so drunk it is really rape).
And which bars were you going to exactly? :lol:
Charleston is a
huge military town. It also has at least four different colleges. You're certainly not going to find any more service members than college students in any of our bars. You'll be lucky to see any, in point of fact.
No, not all intra-unit relationships are monogamous either. Hell! I went through AIT with a guy who screwed half of our graduating class all by himself without giving any of his conquests a second thought afterwards.
Frankly, as far as the prostitution goes, cracking down too much would strike me as being a mistake.
Forgive my bluntness here, but you're a lot less likely to catch an STD from a prostitute, especially in a country where that kind of thing is legal and regulated, than you are from the kind of young woman liable to give it up for free in a bar. :lol:
Prostitutes approach sex as a job. They have a vested interest in using protection if they want to maintain their livelihood, and they also have a vested interest in staying sober enough to make sure that neither they nor their john's forget it.
Bar skanks kind of... Well, don't. They're "just looking to have a good time."
Just sayin'...
The problem is that neither the military nor colleges work toward teaching about healthy sexual encounters, rather only try to tell both "don't sleep around", which obviously does not work. It is like when you teach a child, you don't punish them without giving them an explanation for why they are being punished and work toward changing that behavior. In fact, the best way to change the behavior of a child is to explain to them, in terms they can understand, why they shouldn't do something, rather than simply making rules for them to obey and saying "because I said so". The difference is though that you are teaching adults when it comes to college students and servicemembers, which means that they can be taught why they shouldn't do certain activities, those that are actually harmful to them (having unsafe sex, staying in unsafe/unhealthy relationships) and teach them how to build healthier, safer relationships, of many kinds, which is what these workshops are about.
Are you serious with this crap? :lol:
Really?
Really, really??
May I remind you that this event focuses around classes with titles like: "How to get laid," "How to negotiate a threesome," and "How to give 'O face' oral sex?"
These are all salacious topics, focusing around sexual behavior in a
blatantly promiscuous context.
Where do "healthy relationships" even
begin to enter into the equation here?
I'm sorry, but the simple fact of the matter is that no aspect of what you're selling here makes any sense whatsoever. First off, there is
no such thing as "safe," "responsible," or "healthy" promiscuity anymore than there is such a thing as safe, responsible, or healthy binge drinking. The entire purpose of both acts are thrill-seeking irresponsibility for selfish personal satisfaction. The fact that the two almost universally go hand-in-hand with one another simply makes the problem that much worse.
You are living in a fantasy world if you think
anything taught by this university in a class focusing on either "getting laid," or "negotiating threesomes," will further the cause of "creating healthy relationships."
Secondly, if the purpose here really was to teach "safe sex," they wouldn't need half a dozen different courses, all promising instruction in other, completely unrelated promiscuous behaviors, to do it.