Soldiers and sailors have always been keen to frequent prostitutes. This is as true of the
modern conscripts in
foreign lands as it is of the enlisted man in the armies of antiquity. One startling use of
campaign funds was
brought to the attention of Richard I at the beginning of a European enterprise. "When
Richard arrived at
Marseilles he found that the English knights who had preceded him had squandered all the
campaign funds on
prostitutes."