9/11 was very much on the mind of U.S.
sailors when, in 2002, a U.S. aircraft battle group was recalled
after extended deployment in the gulf, Months of nail-biting
military action had the men of the the aircraft carrier USS John C
Stennis, the guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal and the fast
combat support ship USS Bridge, “tightly wound.” Among sailors,
the city of Perth, Australia has the endearing quality of legalized
prostitution, and is generally acknowledged as an appropriate place
for shore leave. There are several well known, reputable brothels in
Perth, most of them open 24 hours. In
May of 2002, five-thousand five hundred men of the U.S. battle group
“Horney” were dismissed for shore leave at the same time. In
less than a week shore leave was over and the whores of Perth had
surrendered. The famous Langtrees brothel and several others had
had enough. The Madam's reported that they were closing their doors
for an appropriate time, as they were no longer able to provide a
level of professional care their customers had come to rely on.
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl
Harbor, the U.S. President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ordered 1
million men deployed to Hawaii in an effort to reinforce this
America's only forward base. Maj. Frank Steer, newly appointed
provost Marshall of the islands, was forced to issue the only order
he could in this situation. By order: Prostitutes could only charge
3$ for 3 minutes. Unknown to most, the dictatorial powers of the
provost Marshall included the right to set the price of illegal sex.
What could of motivated the provost Marshall to regulate the price of
sex for prostitutes? The reason may have come from another edict
Maj. Steer was forced to issue. By order: No more sex workers
allowed to immigrate to the islands of Hawaii for the duration of the
war. In a very practical matter, Maj. Steer had no where to put the
50,000+ free spirited women who were were about to arrive right
behind the 1 million servicemen. While the Naval base of Pearl
Harbor could handle a million man deployment, as provost Marshall,
Maj. Steer had the problem of housing all the civilian contractors
and other civilian personnel the Navy would be needing for its ship
yards. So, for the remainder of the war, only the original 200+
prostitutes, already living on the island, would be handling over a
million+ servicemen.
If Maj. Steer had not set price of sex,
the prostitutes of Oahu would be demanding such high wages as to
tempt the “good Christian women of the islands into a life of sin.”
Servicing servicemen was their way of serving America. Imagine a
platoon of tired, sad old whores dressed in faded, red, white and
blue outfits, faded sequins, marching with patriotic pride to the
Star Spangled Banner; saluting our flag in unison as their dirty,
1940 grand-ma panties drop to their ankles. 1940's war propaganda
tags the film with, “Never had so few done so many. For 'Merica'!
“
A
few days ago the Republican National Committee offered up a press
release stating that it is currently narrowing down their choice of
host city of the 2016 Republican Convention. The smart money is on
Las Vegas. Republican's flooding into Vegas is nothing new,
but history has shown us that, all at once is bound to be tough on
the whores; the prostitutes, the
sex workers. Roy Scheider said it in Jaws, “We're going to need a
bigger boat.” Replace “boat” with “whore”, Rest assured
Las Vegas, The Donald will be there.
But has anyone thought to alert the
working whores of Las Vegas? It's unconscionable to unleash a
tsunami of hypocrisy onto that community that already has real
family values. They never think about how this will effect the
whores.
Just a note: The prostitutes of Hawaii
claimed to work 6 days a week. (Off on Sunday – for church.) That
works out to a few thousand shy of $150,000 a year. Working only
daylight hours; (Because of curfew no personnel were allowed out
ofter dark.) In 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was paid of
salary of $75,000 a year.
