soc.history.war.world-war-ii

"Haydn" wrote in message
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> "Andrew Clark" wrote:
>
>> The average British soldier was anything but sexually repressed in WW2,
>> as a million memoirs will tell you. Military brothels were plentiful and
>> officially tolerated, if not actually recognised.
>
> I wasn't aware of this. I remember I read somewhere (in an English text)
> something like, "as for the British [Commonwealth] troops, also due to
> their stiffer morals, more or less all that was left to them in the way of
> having a sexual life was self-obtained release and dreaming away over the
> girlfriend's letters from home".

In reality military brothels were common in most areas the British operated
in.

Some were set up on Montgomery's orders in Sicily just after it was taken
and later after the landing in Italy.

Lady Astor visited the theatre and complained about them and so they were
closed.


--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.