Originally Posted by
Peace&Freedom
Earlier:
The next few years will be a proof of concept as to which will win out---human nature, or human invention.
As someone who served on Poseidon and Trident class submarines, I side with the view that human nature will win. Ballistic boats (at least the ones I was on) were built for men, inside and out, the sub cans were 'made to pack sausage' so to speak. One of the things that made this bearable was the absence of women, which permits men to focus on something else. The lay out of both the heads and the berthing area on subs do not permit separation by gender. Occasionally a few female officers were onboard temporarily and used the officer racks/heads, which are a bit more private, but only by a matter of degree. Fast attack subs are even smaller, with less space to keep the sexes, and sex, at bay.
At least on coed campuses, the sexes can be separated by dorm (but look how successful that turned out). With mixed berthing, temptation is literally two feet away. As a regular practice, this shapes up to be a recipe for the oldest law of human relations: if you cram enough fit young men and women together in one place for any length of time, somebody is going to be making out with somebody. The human race is very sexy, there's a reason why there are 7 billion people on the planet. God designed the human sex drive very well, which makes regularly staffing a small boat with men and women a logistical disaster in waiting, as frankly, the populating will lead to copulating.
Finally, this whole issue is majoring in the minors as far as liberty is concerned, because we shouldn't even be having a standing Army or Navy in a free country, to be debating two-gender crew arrangements in the first place. We should simply have a well regulated (well-managed) militia keeping the citizenry armed and ready to handle a crisis, with Armed Forces personnel added a special situations. In other words, we need to pull troops, bases and facilities from around the world, not figuring out how to add more women to them.
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