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It's worth noting that the sexual environment in McMurdo is... distorted. You have a bunch of adventurous, thrill seeking types, isolated from civilization, and
by dTal 3y ago
It's worth noting that the sexual environment in McMurdo is... distorted. You have a bunch of adventurous, thrill seeking types, isolated from civilization, and extremely bored a lot of the time. They fuck. A lot more than you'd think.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-condoms-idUSN0943167020080609 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-condoms-idUSN094316702008...
It's a strange culture. Beware of extrapolating any kind of larger social lessons from things that happen there.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoUS bases in the Iraqi Green Zone, and other spots like Bagram AB, had a lot of contractors and had reputations for culture like this, too. I had a signals MOS and it was a gut check coming to Baghdad and doing work around the comfy contractors after time at Camp Fallujah. The jokes about Filipina Contractors, Cinnabun, and homemade hooch are mostly overstated... but not false...