Reply #16: It's a huge intelligence liability, too.

[sofa king]

The time-honored "honey trap":

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/spybook/spy/970121.html

The thing is, making prostitute use a court martial offense actually increases the effectiveness of the honey trap.

Despite the edict, American soldiers will continue to visit prostitutes. Some of those prostitutes will be part of foreign intelligence operations. The soldiers will then be confronted with the threat of losing their careers to exposure. Some of them will hand over intelligence to a potential enemy rather than be excommunicated from the military.

This is exactly why homosexuals were once locked out of the intelligence community. When homosexuality was a crime, being a homosexual was a severe liability, because it was a soft spot which could be exploited by an enemy.

Once it became more socially acceptable, homosexuality became an instant positive factor for the United States, because not only were potentially excellent operatives protected from exploitation, but the threat of exploitation against other operatives from less understanding nations became an option.

Just goes to show that if you think the only book you need to know is the Bible, sooner or later someone's going to beat you unconscious with a copy of Machiavelli.