The USS Abraham Lincoln just docked in Pattaya, Thailand – one of the world’s most famous sex tourism hotspots – for a “rest and relaxation” stopover. And Pattaya’s sex tourism industry didn’t emerge out of nowhere: The city was built into a major US military R&R destination during the Vietnam War. Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra unpack the longstanding, documented links between US troops abroad and sexual violence against women in countries like Thailand, the Philippines, Korea and Colombia. They also respond to Fox News’ Jesse Watters’s jokes about the “wild animals” that would be created by the Pentagon’s push to put troops on testosterone in July, including his warning that women on base and in port cities should “watch out” — treating the US military’s culture of the sexual assault as a punchline.

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