Female Soldiers As Reward For Male Combatants

The presence of armies makes commercial sexual exploitation spike; however, the attitudes soldiers show toward prostituted women and women in pornography easily and frequently affect their treatment of other women, too, especially those who fight alongside them. In this livestream, Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow go into prominent cases of male military personnel attacking their female colleagues and the ways in which, in some settings, women soldiers are actively offered as a reward to imperialist and revolutionary male combatants alike.

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Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as workers’ comp issue: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-08-25/lawsuit-workers-comp-sexual-assault-navy-ship-22658787.html

Exclusive: Navy Sexual Assault Survivor Says a Workers' Comp Claim Just Ended Her Fight for Justice: https://www.military.com/exclusive-navy-sexual-assault-survivor-says-a-workers-comp-claim-just-ended-her-fight-for-justice 

“Sex Worker Safety Advice” Reveals the Violence of Prostitution: https://ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2022/02/27/sex-worker-safety-advice-reveals-the-violence-of-prostitution/ 

Another example of “Sex Worker Safety Advice”: https://ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/pro-prostitution-group-tampep-normalizes-trafficking-and-tells-women-to-not-get-raped/ 

Prostitution: When Jumping Out the Window turns into a work accident: https://efarbeitsrecht.net/prostitution-wenn-der-sprung-aus-dem-fenster-zum-arbeitsunfall-wird/ 

Murder of LaVena Johnson: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-mar-08-na-women-soldier-suicides8-story.html 

Murder of Vanessa Guillen: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/vanessa-guillen-netflix-documentary-army-murder-b2225781.html 

The girlbossification of global warfare: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/61170/1/the-girlbossification-of-global-warfare-israel-idf-palestine 

USA Army Violence Prevalence: https://www.sapr.mil/reports 

Germany Army Violence Prevalence: https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/937820/d52d8f040a6e1e3d1d4226497e498e42/jahresbericht_2022_pdf-data.pdf 

State and Non-State Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls During the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’: A Systematic Review: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15248380251366267 

Confessions to intimate violence: FARC testimonies to sexual violations in the Colombian conflict: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14616742.2024.2355316 

Sexual Violence In Sierra Leone's Civil War: 'Virgination", Rape and Marriage; https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/sexual-violence-in-sierra-leones-civil-war-virgination-rape-and-m/