[s_kilk]

> people would like to think that the military have sex with each other all the time...

This is, in fact, the case though. It's not unheard-of for personnel to have a casual boyfriend/girlfriend for the duration of a deployment, in a what-happens-in-vegas way.

[e12e]

I'm sorry if I was unclear, I meant that sex is not that common in deployments in constrained/mission environments without leave, like while on board a (small) submarine.

[omegaham]

I'm actually not so sure about this, as people have sex all the time while aboard ship; a fan room usually ends up becoming the Love Shack. They're working 12-hour shifts and doing extra duty on top of that, and they're still banging. Careers get ruined when the woman shows up pregnant to sick call.

I don't know about submarines, mostly because they've been male-only until very recent, and attitudes on homosexuality have not been and still aren't very tolerant[1]. From the fact that Marines fuck in Porta-shitters in Afghanistan, I'm sure that life, er, finds a way.

[1] <insert ribald Navy joke here>

[s_kilk]

Ah, gotcha. I'd still wager it's more common than we think :)