Because, basically, men can get away with it. Very few men are prosecuted for it during war, and commanders usually do not come down very hard on it. I mean, it’s kind of like the military right now, what they’re going through. Military women are being raped and they often have to report to the person who may have been the rapist, or who may have been friends with the rapist. So it really hasn’t changed.
[Ed. Note: In a 2012 survey, 6.1 percent of active duty military women reported they had experienced “unwanted sexual contact” in the past year. Of these, 67 percent did not report the incident.]
I really despise the inference here that US soldiers are routinely treating their female counterparts this way. I served thirty years in the US Army with 33 months in a war zone. In that time I knew of exactly one incident that could be described as abusing individual information trying to gain sexual favor. In that case one junior enlisted gained access to certain medical information (illegally) that he used to try and blackmail the female soldier into sexual favors. He was caught and treated very harshly by the command. That being said I believe that anywhere that male and females are comingled such things will happen. I don't believe that the incidents of these in the military are any greater than in the civilian world. All such incidents are deplorable but soldiers are no more guilty than those in the civilian world.