Chambliss Cites Surging Hormones in Military Sex-Assault
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In the midst of a Senate debate over curbing sexual assaults in the U.S. military, a Republican senator from Georgia cited surging hormones among young recruits as a contributing factor.
“The young folks that are coming in to each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22-or-three,” Senator Saxby Chambliss told the nation’s top military officers yesterday at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “The hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur.”