try loctiting (purple or if thats not enough blue threadlocker) on a connector to see if your comfortable with it. I bought male-female adapters for this reason to put on equipment I am using frequently. But I don't have to deal with stooges.
The purple stuff is weak but it might discourage yanking.
Also, if you don't give a shit, you can solder them together carefully with a powerful iron, but the thing might melt, and you need to use an agressive flux.
From experience soldering them (to make sealed connections in really ghetto enclosures) you need alot of heat and fast or the plastic heats up and expands and destroys the connector or gets burned and the impedance probobly changes).
The little gasket will probably be destroyed though, but thats only effecting the one commonly not attached to equipment with moving parts. By destroyed I mean it suddenly requires massive pressure to turn but still works fine. They have the dielectric (teflon I think) in a slug around the middle, but some have like a rubber o-ring under the rotatable part that tends to get destroyed. But, I think if you had like a 150W soldering gun, you might be able to do it, with agressive flux, so it does not damage anything, if you tin a spot on both, cool them completely, then bridge the tinned areas when their mated.
A less nice solution would just be to get thin steel wire, or maybe piano/painting wire, wrap the mated connection fairly tight, then seal the wire with a crimp/ferrule so it stays tight after you twist it together on the end, then just give it a trim. This way someone would need (decent) wire cutters to undo it to remove the sacrificial connector. If someone knows their tools they might be discouraged from using their field kit to cut steel wire, unless they have nice carbide cutters etc.
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