Posted on 06/07/2009 4:41:12 PM PDT by null and void
They're nearly twice as a likely to have a sexually transmitted disease and less inclined to use a condom. They've got a generally lax attitude toward mixing alcohol and sex and were barely out of high school and gunning to be Marines.
Military.com tracked down one of the study's authors
Cherrie Boyer, a UCSF professor, stressed several points.
First, while the report was published in the Military Medicine Journal last November, the actual study was conducted in 1999. It was a self-administered questionnaire that sought accuracy in brutally honest questions like: ...?
The Navy takes reproductive health seriously and has been tracking sexually transmitted diseases in the Marine Corps for decades.
Results from its latest round of testing provide a glimpse into the sexual responsibility of Marines - for better or worse.
Nevertheless, data shows that Marines contract syphilis, gonorrhea and HIV at a lesser rate than their civilian counterparts. Last year, for instance, 16 Marines tested newly positive for HIV, the precursor to AIDS. That's 13 per 100,000 Marines tested, much less than the 23 per 100,000 in the civilian population, MacDonald said.
"This is about prevention. It's not about highlighting that these women are engaging in all these behaviors and that says something about them," she said. "This is the same for a lot of young people."
But colleges are far less interested in unintended pregnancies impacting combat readiness.
That's why she has worked with Corps officials to help implement more effective means to protect young recruits from risky behavior and is now preparing for a separate study on sexual attitudes in the Army.
"It's important for me to understand factors that influence young people's health," she said. "And arm young people with knowledge and skills to prepare them to be healthy adults."
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
In other news, the sun rose in the east today...
God bless the WM’s!
OMG, female Marines are more like male Marines than anyone could have guess.
Camp followers.
HEH...
Marines will be Marines regardless of plumbing.
This is my rifle,
this is my gun,
this one’s for killin’,
this one’s for fun.
Is the term no longer BAM?
Hahahahaha...I haven’t heard that is sooooo long.
My best friend is an MD.
He served for 4 years in the Navy.
He was assigned to Quantico.
He said that the beautiful Marine women were so infested with warts and diseases that it convinced him to remain faithful to his wife.
Female recruits are just as lusty as male recruits?
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Very sad, though, don’t you think?
There was a time, less than 50 years ago, when promiscuous women were the exception rather than the rule. Up through the 1960s, a young woman treasured her status as a virgin and guarded her reputation fiercely.
Where are the pictures of these oversexed Marine-ettes?
No idea.
Say, if you’ve got a good camera, maybe we could go into business...
The Pill changed everything.
Sex without consequences has led to sex without commitment.
Camp Followers
I think that this is what most people don’t want to discuss. There is a self-selection process going on here that isn’t, on average, good for the military.
They had a lot of photos proudly proclaiming ‘this is a red neck dog, red neck woman, red neck car’ - - they had a picture there of a very buxom marine woman straddling on top of a torpedo shaped bomb.
I do not know if she was a real marine(her cleavage looked wonderfully real) but it seemed to be taken at an air base either here or in Iraq/Kuwait— I do not remember.
The Pill changed everything.
^^
Use of the Pill certainly contributed mainly as a tool of the entire movement that sought to push women off their pedestals.
>>Up through the 1960s, a young woman treasured her status as a virgin and guarded her reputation fiercely.
The Pill changed everything.
Sex without consequences has led to sex without commitment.
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I am quoting a British author of THE ABOLITION OF GREAT BRITAIN, had a chapter titled “The Pill that cured morality”
—it was about the destructive consequences of the introduction of the contraceptive pill and the Rock & Roll age ushering in an era of low morality.
It’s embarrassing, too.
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