USA sexually ‘teased’ its troops in the First World War to make them fight harder

USA sexually ‘teased’ its troops in the First World War to make them fight harder. Believing that sexually satisfied men could not be easily motivated, the aim of this teasing was to generate unmet sexual desire, which the War Department could leverage as motivation to fight

The United States Government sought to sexually stimulate then frustrate its soldiers to prepare them for an unpopular conflict in Europe, a Cambridge historian argues.

Recruiting attractive canteen staff; inviting female civilians to closely supervised dances; disseminating alluring propaganda; pressurising troops to write to women back home; and detaining allegedly promiscuous women to prevent soldiers wasting energy.

These are just some of ways that America’s War Department sought to harness pent-up sexual energy to motivate troops in 1918.

At the heart of this experiment was the Commission on Training Camp Activities (CTCA), a War Department-directed umbrella agency. Previous studies have demonstrated that the CTCA sought to control soldiers’ and women’s sex lives to prevent venereal infection and protect social morality in the US.

Probably backfired a bit when the soldiers went and slept with prostitutes instead. Many caught STDs and were sidelined because of it. It was such a problem that during WW2 the army created a department who’s job it was to prevent soldiers from sleeping with prostitutes.

EDIT: Elliot Ness worked for the department and spearheaded creating interment camps for prostitutes where they could be treated for their diseases. Most camps were overcrowded with women, many of whom weren’t prostitutes, and they received poor care while there.

he infamous "trench foot" of WW1 impacted 75,000 allied troops

whereas 3.5 million soldiers contracted some form of STD

Interestingly, the UK and US didn't issue condoms to its soldiers unlike every other army

The parent does say, "and detaining allegedly promiscuous women to prevent soldiers wasting energy." The prostitute option is certainly one that they were aware of.

Seems to me continuing the same logic behind this would make them more irritable and irrational. I know they still kinda relied on throwing bodies at the other side as part of what wins a war. Following the same logic they were using, in theory it would cause more loss of life and run you through those bodies a little faster.

Not like being in a war is enough for most people to do what ever they can to not be in a war anymore, making them irritable just sounds like the worst way to do that.

The United State Government later went on to try to develop drugs that would make the enemy super horny because... science? This article makes it sound like turning them gay would have just kind of been a bonus, but usually I hear this program described as a focused attempt to make the enemy gay.

Amphetamines were given to troops to increase alertness. They had the added benefits of reducing appetites and fatigue. Nazi Germany, in particular, embraced amphetamines during World War II. From April to July of 1940, German service members on the Western Front received more than 35 million methamphetamine pills. German troops would go as many as three days without sleep during the invasion of France. In contrast, Britain distributed 72 million amphetamine tablets during the entire war.[1]

Cocaine

World War I saw the greatest use of cocaine amongst militaries. It was used for medical purposes and as a performance enhancer. At the time, it was not a controlled substance, and was readily available to troops. The British Army distributed cocaine-containing pills under Tabloid's brand name "Forced March",[12] which were advertised to suppress appetite and increase endurance.

The German Army for its part, also produced during the closing days of World War II a combination of 5 mg of Cocaine, 3 mg of Methamphetamine and 5 mg of Oxycodone in a compound they named D-IX;[14] the compound was reportedly tested on prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and found out an individual who had consumed the compound could march 90 kilometers per day without rest while carrying 20 kilograms of equipment. The doctors and military authorities testing the compound were enthusiastic about the results but the war ended before the compound could be mass produced and distributed.

Saw something in a documentary that noted the Germans were extremely vulnerable when they drug crashed after the 3 days without sleep. The whole war could have ended shortly after it started if the allies weren’t still in shocked-disbelief-and-flailing-response mode. Which was typical early on, but the allies became much more diligent and competent later. By the end of the war having a bunch of drug addicts in command of Germany, Hitler especially, contributed to terrible decisions. So there’s the other side of the issue.

 And shaming men who hadn't signed up was a bad idea partly because the campaign harassed those with a legit excuse (essential homefront job, got medically discharged, etc)

Rather ironically, 20-ish years later a white feather became the personal signature of one of the greatest snipers in history. Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock always wore one in his hat the whole time he was in Vietnam. As the story goes, the only time he took it out was during an assignment to take out a PAVN general, during which he spent four days crawling through 1500 yards of open field.

They used a similar method for recruiting. They had girls run everywhere they could find military aged men that weren’t enlisted.

At the start of World War I, Admiral Charles Fitzgerald, who was a strong advocate of conscription wanted to increase the number of those enlisting in the armed forces. Therefore he organized on 30 August 1914 a group of thirty women in his home town of Folkestone to hand out white feathers to any men that were not in uniform. Fitzgerald believed using women to shame the men into enlisting would be the most effective method of encouraging enlistment.[5][6] The group that he founded (with prominent members being Emma Orczy and the prominent author Mary Augusta Ward) was known as the White Feather Brigade or the Order of the White Feather.[

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