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- From: young@ssdd475a.erim.org (Peter Young)
- Subject: Re: Showering in the Military (Re: Gays in the Military..what nobody is talking about: )
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- In all these anecdotes about homosexual rape in the military, what
- most people seem to be ignoring is that most of the perpetrators do
- not consider themselves to be gay. Just as in prison the sexual
- agressors were heterosexual, exclusively, before incarceration, and
- are exclusively so after release, soldiers in stressful situations
- behave oddly. Most of them would cite lack of any other interpersonal
- outlet for their sexual urges as the reason for their behavior.
-
- Do we believe that the kid who corners a sheep on the farm has
- expressed his sexual orientation thereby? Of course not. The sheep
- is simply the most convenient target at the time. So it is for the
- kid in the military, away from home for the first time, scared,
- convinced by the powers that be that he is as bad as they come, and
- the world is his for the taking. It is surprising that more such
- incidents are not reported.
-
- While the Col. David Hackworth (Is that right?) incidents cited by Mr.
- Moore clearly indict a particular homosexual captain, we cannot
- reasonably condemn a significant portion of our society based upon
- this one documented case.
-
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- Peter Young
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