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That’s the message from a leading female lawmaker in the Netherlands who’s asking the government to send Dutch prostitutes abroad for deployment with Dutch troops to help the soldiers relax.

Annemarie Jorritsma, a member for the center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy and the mayor of the town of Almere in the Netherlands, went on national TV to campaign for the “extra benefits” for the Dutch troops.

She said, “The army must think about how their soldiers can let off some steam.”

Her proposal immediately drew support from the Dutch sex workers union.

But the Vokskrant newspaper quotes an unidentified military spokesman as expressing reservations over the proposal.

He told the newspaper, “I don’t think my wife would like the idea very much.”

There are currently around 2,000 Dutch soldiers stationed outside of the Netherlands, majority of them deployed either in Afghanistan and Bosnia.