Can someone explain why soldiers are banned from watching porn down range?
Perhaps you need to revisit SHARP training. Sexual assault is about folks who use sex in a manner that gives them a sense of power and control.
Sometimes it is part of the status of forces agreements (if we have one) and sometimes it is a internal CofS, DA, or service chief decision due to Cultural laws and norms they want to adhere to as a give and take of what we need, vice what they want. More so when we work in a combined (US and other country forces) environment including the host nation..
That it is unpopular or denying an entertainment want of a service member is not part of the equation.
That you think watching porn will stop sexual attacks or harassment is very telling of your not understanding sexual assault.
I never said I'm an expert. Not once. I have demonstrated no ignorance on this topic but you have an extreme amount of it. I am not resistant to new ideas - when they have a basis in reality and fact. Way to blow off the edit job.
I have done research on it outside the SHARP arena.
I can say someone is wrong when they are wrong.
Have a LOVELY day.
You need to go have a serious talk with your SARC or a civilian victim advocate or talk to some sexual assault survivors. Sexual assault and rape are NOT about sex. Ever. It's about power and control.
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Other than that I feel regardless of what I say or voice. Unless I agree with you I'll be wrong. I'm not a subject matter expert on this topic.
Thank you for your insight.
I just thought it was a serious post and that's why I said seriously because watching porn doesn't make someone blind...
Okay not everyone - but a large number of people do watch it while deployed. People also drank alcohol during deployments on the COPs and PBs. They probably still do. Is it wrong? Yes. If they get caught with either they'll get punished like anything else.
It's just like adultery- illegal under UCMJ but not very widely enforced because you pretty much have to be caught in the act of sex to get charged with it. It even states in the article I believe that even if you're just in bed with someone who isn't your spouse or with a married person that's not adultery. It also has to cause a degradation in good order and discipline. Or someone admits to it. So adultery happens but no one gets punished unless they get caught.
If someone gets caught with porn they get punished downrange. If you have an issue with the rule talk to those who make the policies and general orders downrange. Not me. I don't make those rules.
Again have a lovely day with your hostility and negativity toward me and me alone.
That’s like saying if Obesity is such a problem in the military, why would you stop soldiers from drinking alcohol?
If you’re actively engaged on deployment and doing your job, you wouldn’t even think about porn. Get your priorities in order.
Is known or reasonably known.
Meaning that yeah. One shot won't count. But if they sit there and consume a fifth of whiskey during a movie. Then proceed. Reasonably they should know they're both intoxicated.
State Law Database
How to find out how a state defines consent. Because "Everyday Feminism" isn't a very accurate source.
RAINN | Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network
From the legal definition of rape to the statute of limitation for a particular sex crime, where you live makes a difference. Here's a guide to the laws in your state.
Not to mention that if they allow it, and then a service member ends up getting cought with it when it's still illegal then they have to negotiate with the police to release the service member. Trouble that can be avoided by disallowing it in the first place.
Do I agree they should be allowed to "entertain" themselves. However I, as many boys learned, that task is possible WITHOUT the help of video/photographic aid.
About your need for porn: This verse from the song Kodachrome by Simon and Garfunkel (probably older then you are) comes to mind
if you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
My sweet imagination
What myths have I spread? None. Show me what myths I have spread.
"Are you really that dishonest AND that stupid? How can you claim that you are not talking to me when you are responding directly to me?"
You have been going on threads that you weren't even on until I went and commented. Are you that dishonest? Oh and "stupid?" Who is attacking whom now?
"I'm one of only a few people in this thread that have attempted to actually answer the SPC's question, rather than just trying to dismiss it (and, in your case, accuse him of porn addiction), yet you want to accuse me of being a "troll"? "
LMAO!! That's a good one. Yes you are trolling in fact.
"I chose to stay in the discussion so that a young soldier can see that some NCOs lead with empathy and understanding." Even MORE hilarious! You are not leading with any empathy or understanding.