THE HANDSTAND

February 2005


is WAR actually a sexual stimulus and function for men?
It was found that a high level of sexual activity is associated with a low level of violence, but only if the meaning of that activity is one of a warm, affectionate act. For men who follow the traditional male stereotype of sex as a dominant and exploitative act, higher levels of sexual activity are associated with the aggression and violence typically associated with attempts to dominate. For women, these relationships were weak or nonexistent.


Is war actually the stimulus and the function of orgasm for modern armies, soldiers - therein they get "the light, the petit-mal" or little-death as they used call it in the 1600's, not in the head and hand from masturbation but spontaneously from overwhelming fear ?
Did women in the past maintain a dominant domestic position only when they too could frighten men ? Thus they subsequently created the sanction on them of "marriage" because so few women could be fearsome figures?


The English Independent newspaper in early January(4/1/05) issued several pages on good health and long life. Though this could scarecly be categorised as a military manual there is a constant barrage throughout that sex, more and more sex will give us l00 ways to Feel Better. This sexual agenda is quite without any reference to anything but sexual attraction and when you have got it you should have better sex. It is one of the usual "health" sheets divided into sections on various "attractive" matters, hormones for, instance,that few or none know much about, also the "Libido" another psychological riddle. But nevertheless, repeated in nearly each one is the essential message that both men and women must have more sex. The release of the Kinsey Report in America after the 2nd World War, provoked more than half a century of exploration of sexual interests that have emerged right into the forefront of media and television . There was for many years a rapid increase in sex functions of every kind, which were adopted as the only mode of relations between men and women (or same-sex gyrations) and led to such sexual obsessions, nymphomania, homosexual trolling etc., in both sexes that there followed in the last five years the so-called "
necessary right-wing swing" that serves up a positive screen ("No Sex Before Marriage"), and is certainly totally hypocritical as a sexual moderator - as we know from the records of Victorian times in England !

Preparing the armies of the Future.


Abstention from responsibility is the liberty and the military prerogative of all soldiers. The first propaganda motive I find in this crazy Independent health dictat. is that group cognisance and support is essential in all these matters..... (sex too - geddit? 100 ways to Feel Better ofcourse !!)Referring to progesterone hormone levels that induce cravings just prior to menstruation, the article suggests that food cravings are rampant and it ends, sagely, with the hilarious remark "Don't buy the food you crave most." It is well known among women that during this progesterone-high, cravings of various kinds, such as hysterical verbal demands, can establish themselves for a short while - and it has recently been suggested, though only tenuously, that men also experience a monthly flux. Can we not assume that sexual cravings will be strong around this time? Indeed in the section "Tame your Hormones", the final advice there is to try out melatonin instead of a progesterone-high during menstruation, to boost flagging sex requirements at that time.

Thus we can speculate, perhaps, that these great military Generals, accumulating greater melantonin rushes now that they are sleeping after the deserved indulgences of their old age - viagra, food and alcohol - also indulge and project their stimulating sexual archetype longings on their troop's campaigns.




The Independent goes on to advise a boost of male hormones called androgens for women, also testerone patches for men as young as 19yrs.( incase they don't masturbate enough or engage in sufficient boosts to their Libido with ordinary fucking.) And... yes! watching violent frightening films increases that valuable Libido by 30%. And more substantially, if having a vasectomy reduces the responsibility of fucking as a regenerative moment then, Have One !!...as your Libido will be on the rise again and again (enabling you to have more sex)

Bright light (as found in the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan) will also boost this Libido until regardless of either women or himself, man will abandon all precaution and attack the enemy in such a frenzy that cruelty and barbarism merely become delightful jokes. (Remember Vietnam?) So don't put down battlefield misdemeanours to drugs, it is only the wonderful Libido of Western civilisation that honours the moment of "hero-in-ism".......have plenty of sex, it burns up 150calories in half an hour (half an hour!!!),or walk the dog (ha ha!) "Anyhow....." - as a friend always announces his most catastrophic decisions in the sex wars, " it meseems me good that there is much emotionally repressive advise here.."

It was once reported to me by a European soldier that while on training manoeuvres he regularly had an orgasm as tension hotted up, especially on foot in the magnificent bogs and mountain-sides of Scotland so beloved by the Queen of England as a residence. Do the beaters to the Royal grouse and pstarmigan shoots notice any red faces among the young aristocrats who practise their army training on "the birds"?

However Mark Juergensmeyer insists that we must understand religious terrorism as the modern scene of warfare, a theater, as cosmic war, and as homosocial ritual.In his latest book Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, 2000).
the academic concludes : Religious terrorism is a demonstration, a drama designed to show that the state does not hold a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. Juergensmeyer writes: "When we who observe these acts take them seriously—and are disgusted and repelled by them, and begin to distrust the peacefulness of the world around us—the purposes of this theater are achieved."



British Army:

The routine management of the Army is the responsibility of The Army Board, the composition of which is shown in the following list. (this includes responsibility for all forms of appointments, ranking and promotion TG)

THE ARMY BOARD

  1. The Secretary of State for Defence
  2. Minister of State for the Armed Forces
  3. Minister of State (Defence Procurement)
  4. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence Procurement
  5. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Veterans' Affairs
  6. Chief of the General Staff
  7. Second Permanent Under Secretary of State
  8. Adjutant General
  9. Quartermaster General
  10. Master General of the Ordnance
  11. Commander-in-Chief (Land Command)
  12. Commander UK Support Command
  13. Assistant Chief of the General Staff

Decisions made by the Army Board are acted upon by the military staff at the various headquarters worldwide. The Chief of the General Staff is the officer responsible for the Army's contribution to the national defence effort and he maintains control through the commander and the staff branches of each of these headquarters.

Each military headquarters is organised along exactly the same lines with identical branches at each level in the chain of command.

http://www.armedforces.co.uk/army/listings/l0003.html


USA military :
- sexual; exploits of soldiers....Last June, Equality Now launched a call to urge US President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld "to establish and strictly enforce a zero-tolerance policy prohibiting the solicitation of prostitution by US military forces around the world."
"Almost everywhere US troops are stationed, there is a dramatic growth of the local commercial sex industry," Equality Now said. "Increased demand for prostitution compounds the abuse of women, many of whom are trafficked to supply this demand. In South Korea, military personnel condone prostitution and support the trafficking industry despite the fact that solicitation of prostitution is an offence under Korean law and under the US Forces, Korea Regulation, which states that 'all houses of prostitution' are formally 'off-limits' to military personnel." While formal sanctions against soliciting for prostitution for the US armed services may help curtail the trade, there's still a long way to go before the sense of male entitlement for sexual pleasure -- by way of paid or coerced sex -- is dented or eradicated
. www.inq7.net

Theories?

"The Man o War" is one mean dildo.www.sextoys.co.uk

Libby RW, Straus MA.

Some previous studies show that sexual arousal heightens aggression, some show no relationship, and others show that sex inhibits aggression. It is suggested that the contradictions can be explained by the failure of these studies to consider the subjective meaning of sexual acts. To empirically test this notion, questionnaires were given to 190 students in three New England colleges. It was found that a high level of sexual activity is associated with a low level of violence, but only if the meaning of that activity is one of a warm, affectionate act. For men who follow the traditional male stereotype of sex as a dominant and exploitative act, higher levels of sexual activity are associated with the aggression and violence typically associated with attempts to dominate. For women, these relationships were weak or nonexistent. Reasons for the sex differences are discussed.

PMID: 7396687 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Google War: sex vs. study
Googlewar "sex", vs. "study". 398,000,000 results, 218,000,000 results. The
winner is: sex. Related Googlewars: sex 300, sex 300, sex ...
www.googlewar.com/search. cfm?q1=sex&q2=study&noadd=1 - 7k -




Conclusion
Sexual education must surely begin to include warnings that we have to understand and teach our children; that the "petit mal" of orgasm through fear can be brought to obsessional level and dominates paedophilia and the abyss of life versus death behind the double-barrelled gun of the military at war.
With this an accompanying study of fear and its neurological release mechanisms in the brain and body must be understood. And we should realise that the "libido", that convenient and abstract noun, for all that goes to make up mankind's confidence in his/her own personality as a living functioning human being, is a psychological problem that we must try to understand without giving it the intense selfish characteristics that we associate with it. An understanding we owe especially to those who have psychological or physical problems ; and for those whose poverty has led to the massive acceptance world-wide of class differentiation, poor living standards, and above all the inadequacy of good food and pure water for the essential health of the human organism.
Sex simply as more sex, is our natural indulgence.But if within the security of a responsible love and knowledge of ourselves it could introduce a stability in feelings wherein many other luxuries of life and artistic creations could be developed in peace and understanding. For sure we understand why thousands came out onto the streets to march Against War in recent years, long before we actually knew and were certain that Bush and Blair were going to war in Iraq on a pack of lies.
Jocelyn Braddell©Jan.2005