Matthias Reiss. Controlling Sex in Captivity: POWs and Sexual Desires in the United States during the Second World War.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
An apocryphal story has an Allied prisoner of war arriving at a camp in Germany and finding written on the wall behind his bunk “Home or homo by Christmas.” Historians have long debated the level of sexual activity among prisoners of war, with some concluding that after six months behind barbed wire, the only appetites left were for food and freedom. Others have argued that as long as the body was willing, the spirit would take care of the rest, assuming the opportunity presented itself. Given that Axis POWs in the United States were generally well fed (certainly better than their comrades back in Europe who had the misfortune not to be captured) and therefore able to remain in fine physical condition, there were no nutritional deficiencies standing in the way of sexual function. And, as Matthias Reiss shows in this impeccably researched and thoughtful study, there was no shortage of opportunity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".