According to Makepeace’s research, one in five of all hospital admissions in 1916 of British and dominion troops in France and Belgium were for a sexually transmitted infection.
When America joined the war in 1917, sexually transmitted infection rates soared above 190 cases per 1,000 American men at the French base ports, after soldiers in France invited their new ally to join them in the brothels.
There was a famous saying, "One night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury. This explains why
An infection of syphilis or gonorrhoea required a hospital stay of about 30 days for treatment, and so for many men this was an attractive option, rather than fighting. Syphilis was treated with injections of mercury, which usually did nothing to prevent the fatal progression of the disease years later.
The lefties seem obsessed with making prozzies into heroes.
I’m confused about the great service provided. Spreading disease is now a great service?
Give us all your dough, boys!
Not much of a historian if she thought she was breaking new ground about camp followers, a staple of military campaigns across the recorded ages.
The only surprise there is that it was a minority.
that last name is curious.
Imam defend the practice of slavery (women and children captured in jihad, spared of the sword) because if these survivors didn’t become slaves, they might become prostitutes or otherwise unable to provide for themselves.
buzzfeed promoting STD’s since...since their conception.
Or the old Vaudeville song: “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree)?”
The service files of all Canadian World War 1 soldiers are available for viewing online and in the early part of the war a great many Americans joined the Canadian Army.
These files are in PDF format and contain attestation papers (i.e. sign up forms), medical records, individual movements of the soldiers, info on their next of kin and many other interesting facts.
A great deal of these records indicate that men were treated at some point during the war for VD and or, Gonorrhea, etc. My own grandfather’s records indicate that he was treated for VD twice while overseas. He was trampled by a horse in December 2016 and an operation on his wounds didn’t heal correctly. So he was convalesced in England and returned to Halifax Canada about a week before the Halifax explosion... He survived that ordeal as well.
Future leftist histories will no doubt explain that the prostitutes were the real heroes of WWII.