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Australian Navy faces male sex competition scandal
The Sunday Times ^
| July 04, 2009
| Nick Leys
Posted on 07/08/2009 2:38:47 PM PDT by Lorianne
THE Navy is facing a sex scandal involving claims male sailors took part in a contest to bed women sailors, assigning a dollar value to each conquest.
Higher values were placed on officers or lesbians and scores were recorded in a book referred to as ``the ledger.''
Competitors were also encouraged to have sex in unusual places such as on pool tables.
The allegations have been made against crew aboard HMAS Success, the largest ship ever built for the Australian Navy and the flagship of the fleet.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: feminism; navy; scandal; sex
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:38:47 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: Lorianne
Competitors were also encouraged to have sex in unusual places such as on pool tables.What's so unusual about that?
2
posted on
07/08/2009 2:40:29 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
To: Lorianne
Shocking: sailors acting like . . . sailors.
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:40:29 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: Lorianne
How’d the contest turn out?
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:41:12 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
(American)
To: Lorianne
What did the Australian Navy THINK was going to happen when they put both sexes in the same quarters?!? There was at least going to be some messing around. Bureaucrats can be so stupid. Nature has a stronger pull than rules.
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:41:25 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: Lorianne
Now you know why for 2000 years Navies did not allow females on board...
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:41:44 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Lorianne
From the article...
“`If the allegations are proven I don’t think these men should have a role in the Navy. These are not the kind of men we want defending us.’’
these are always the kind of men who defend us... 18-24 year old males... Booze and getting women naked are the primary pursuits. It isn’t as glamorous as people try to make out our young men in uniform, but it is what it is.
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:43:12 PM PDT
by
DariusBane
(Even the Rocks shall cry out "Hobamma to the Highest")
To: Lorianne; All
...I’m shocked to hear that gambling is going on in this Casino...
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:43:47 PM PDT
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough!)
To: Lorianne
Thank goodness it wasn't another US Navy Tailhook scandal.
Who says pool tables are unusual places?
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:45:55 PM PDT
by
DallasDeb
(USAFA '06 Mom)
To: Lorianne
Australian Navy faces male sex competition scandalNot the "male sex scandal" I expected.
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:46:21 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
To: Lorianne
Join the Navy. Ride the Waves. Tradition.
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:46:46 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
("We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction." - Sara Palin, quoting MacArthur.)
To: Lorianne
Just curious - did any sailor score with an officer or a lesbian?
And were the lesbians worth more or less points than the officers?
To: DariusBane
18-24 year old males... Booze and getting women naked are the primary pursuits In one of the books I read about the real Band of Brothers there is a story about some of the Toccoa men (you can probably guess the instigator) coming back from a London pass with some chippees they hid in the attic - until one of the "ladies" put her leg through the ceiling and was spotted. :-))
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:47:40 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
To: Lorianne
Women's Forum Australia spokesperson Melinda Tankard Reist said...With a name like that, I'm guessing a high value target for these ill bred swabbies.
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:47:41 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(A feral conservative in my own land.)
To: Jewbacca
Who woulda thought mixing young people of different genders for extended periods of time at sea would lead to sex !!! who woulda thunk it!
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:47:57 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: Lorianne
The ships name is “Success”??? You can’t make this stuff up!
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:48:25 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
To: colorado tanker
13 posts and no one mentioned the ship's name?
HMAS Success
To: tongue-tied
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:50:35 PM PDT
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: domenad
You’ll ruin the felt!
And DO NOT chalk up...
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posted on
07/08/2009 2:55:48 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
("We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction." - Sara Palin, quoting MacArthur.)
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