Monday, February 3, 2014

Men Behaving Badly

The Bakken oil region of Montana and North Dakota has created many labor intensive jobs. These positions tend to go to men. In fact, so many guys show up for work “man camps” have been established to accommodate the pool of male employees.


This mass of men brought along with it drugs, heavy drinking, violence and prostitution.
Other than the default answer of testosterone, why do you think that large numbers of men in a shared space over time leads to the use of drugs, heavy drinking, violence and prostitution?

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