Bordel militaire de campagne

Bordels militaires de campagne ("military field brothels", abbreviated BMC) were mobile brothels used during World War I, World War II and the First Indochina War to supply prostitution services to French soldiers fighting in areas where brothels were unusual, such as at the front line or in isolated garrisons. The BMCs were significant drivers towards the creation of prostitution regulations within the French army.

These mobile brothels were, in some cases, officially organised by the army. They consisted of large trailer trucks in which up to ten women would work. The first references to these BMCs were in World War I, and they are noted particularly in the Indochina War and the Algerian War.

Subsequently, only the Foreign Legion still used them and closed the last BMC on French soil, in Guyana, in 1995. The BMC in Djibouti was still operating until 2003.