{"id":29570,"date":"2012-04-18T11:42:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29570"},"modified":"2012-04-18T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T15:42:07","slug":"matthis-on-the-prostitution-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29570","title":{"rendered":"Matthis on the prostitution scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking advantage of his big megaphone at the Huffington Post<\/a>, Matthis uses the opportunity to tell us what a great big expert he is on all matters military, but all he is, as always, is a great big blowhard. He tells what to think about the Secret Service scandal in Colombia this last weekend. You can go read the whole thing, but I have a few clarifications to make on his mumbling bullshit;<\/p>\n

I continued by revealing the details of a particularly painful memory from a deployment to the Philippines, in which I was unwittingly purchased by a prostitute and later made to have sex with her, despite neither of us having really been equal or willing partners. Of the experience, I concluded that, “I sold out on my manhood that night… I felt as though I had raped her. I felt as though I had raped myself.”<\/p>\n

At the time, my piece created quite an uproar in the anti-war community which had not yet begun acknowledging the existence of these issues for our military. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How does a guy get “purchased by a prostitute”? It’s been my experience that it’s usually the other way around, that’s what makes them a prostitute. I don’t know about the “uproar” that his tale caused in the anti-war community, but what caused an uproar on my blog was the fact that he blamed his flesh purchase on the military culture. No one forced him to make the deal, he willingly pulled the bills from his wallet and exchanged those bills for sex. There’s nothing in the military culture that mandated his behavior. In fact, the military was the first organized US institution to begin frowning on engaging in prostitution and made such encounters illegal for it’s members serving overseas. That Matthis didn’t get the message is not the fault of the culture. More than likely, he simply ignored the rules.<\/p>\n

He went on to describe how his peers forced him to watch a “banana show” in Okinawa. Now I’d never heard of such a thing, so I had to look it up. But, I’d like to know how someone could be forced to watch the performance if they didn’t want to see it. I have two legs which can carry me right out of the building, and they work on command.<\/p>\n

If we are seriously going to tell the military no more sex with prostitutes, and no more alcohol binging for that matter, half the force may desert overnight, and no one would show up for basic training. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, nice try. People don’t join the military just to engage in sex with prostitutes, and it’s naive and close minded to even say that stupid shit out loud. Maybe Matthis had problems getting company without having to pay for it, but the rest of us can’t be lumped in with his narrow experience. As far as I know there aren’t any prostitutes in Afghanistan, and no one is complaining about that aspect of the duty there. The same went for Iraq.<\/p>\n

In my two decades living immersed in the military culture, I never felt pressured to engage in solicited and compensated sex. I’m not saying I didn’t, but I’m saying no one ever pressured me into it. Peers or superiors. <\/p>\n

This is just another example of Matthis not assuming responsibility for his own actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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