From the deployment I'm in right now out here in the desert, many people are leaving significant others behind, and sexual tensions end up running high as hell. Many of the people out here are willing to resort to cheating to get themselves off, but because of the rigid division of male and female personnel out here, along with prohibition of any sexual activity altogether, people have become rather "stealthy" in their search for gratification, especially in the wake of a big crackdown that caught several personnel in the act, married and single alike.
Honestly, it's amusing how an environment like this proves that, under the right circumstances, any man can go from straight to gay. There are writings on the bathroom walls engaging in anonymous propositions and filled with all sorts of riddles and code so as to distinguish those seriously interested from those going undercover to catch them in the act. I even woke up one night about a month ago to the loud sloshing noise of a blowjob going on in my tent. How do I know it wasn't just a woman snuck into our tent? Because the female tents are on the other side of base and, since my quarters are next to the wooden door of our tent, I never heard the rather loud creaking and slamming of the door that normally wakes me up. We also have security patrols that keep watch and make sure that no one goes into an opposite gender tent.
What disturbs me out here isn't the high sexual tension, but the fact that fidelity seems to go right out the window here. It's as if cheating here is rationalized by the "whatever happens overseas, stays overseas" mentality. However, this is a separate issue altogether, and I just wanted to point out how amusing it is that straight guys can turn queer when they're desperate to get their rocks off.
