>Mai, a 34-year-old woman in Tokyo, used to work at a hospital. But when covid-19 overwhelmed the wards, she found her work too stressful. A single mother, she also needed money for her family. Lured by higher pay, she entered the sex trade, first working as a porn actress before becoming a deriheru or “delivery health” worker—slang for call-girls who visit clients at home or in hotels. For a two-hour session, she earns ¥30,000 ($190).>Mai is among hundreds of thousands of women working in Japan’s sprawling sex industry. The business, thought to be worth ¥2trn-5trn ($12bn-31bn) a year, is woven into male social life. One study in 2022 found that 48% of Japanese men had paid for sex at some point, compared with 11% in Britain. Hagiwara, a 63-year-old man in Tokyo, recalls being taken to a brothel by senior colleagues after joining a company, as a rite of passage. Emu, a man in his 30s, says “most men around me have been at least once.”>Lately, however, lawmakers’ tolerance for the industry has come under much strain. Two recent triggers have encouraged Japanese to re-examine the confusing thicket of laws and conventions that govern how sex work is policed.https://archive.ph/fjVU1
>One was an outrageous crime: last year authorities rescued a 12-year-old Thai girl who had been trafficked to Japan and forced to work at a sex shop in Tokyo.>The second concern has been the growing visibility of women who sell sex around Okubo Park, near Tokyo’s red-light district (where the haggling more ordinarily goes on behind neon-lit doors). Relatively few women are involved in this. Nonetheless, solicitation (waiting for or approaching clients in public) is illegal in Japan. The sight of women openly waiting for clients has unsettled the public.>Compounding the public debate is the fact that some of their customers are foreign tourists, lured to Japan by the cheapness of the yen. Videos of them approaching women in Okubo Park have spread rapidly online. “It is truly lamentable,” said Kamiya Sohei, leader of the right-wing populist Sanseito party, in a video. Behind the outrage lies a sense of wounded pride: during Japan’s boom years in the 1970s and 1980s, it was Japanese men who went abroad for sex.>The authorities have decided to act—at least where the streetwalkers are concerned. Recently women around Okubo Park have been detained or arrested. Yet campaigners say it is unfair that authorities have not also been trying to punish the buyers. “Women are taken away by the police—while the men who buy sex stand beside them smirking,” says Kanajiri Kazuna of PAPS, a women’s-rights group. In November an opposition lawmaker raised this disparity in parliament. In response Takaichi Sanae, the prime minister, ordered the justice ministry to re-examine current practices and consider reforms.
>>537302053>thing japan>memeflagI don't read Indian posts
>>537302053>Sex tourists fuel......picrel.
>>537302053The good ol' "women's interests" infection vector of society and then gay rights and then tranny rights and then everything needs to be woke.
>>537302065>Behind the outrage lies a sense of wounded pride: during Japan’s boom years in the 1970s and 1980s, it was Japanese men who went abroad for sex.Sensitive faggots. We reclining seats and coming to Plap Plap that stinky Jap Jap.
This is why we can't have nice things.
>>537302053>Emu, a man in his 30s, says “most men around me have been at least once.”BUILT FOR BIG BIRD DICK
>>537303533if you even try to set foot in japan im gonna fuck you up you fuckin faggot piece of kike ass nigger shit. now get the fuck off my board and don't ever come back, bitch. fuck you and fuck your entire gay ass nigger bitch family you worthless incel piece of trash.
>>537303285It's men demanding ban on prostitution though. They're jealous of prostitutes preferring foreign men because they pay more.
>>537302053>>537302412>>537302466>>537303285prostitution is retarded in the age on condoms you're just paying premium to masturbate with a piece of plastic and you're risking blackmail and defamation if they record you
>>537304823Just ban foreign man spreading nigger STDs
20+ Japanese threads on this boardOnly 1 thread about British girls being rapedWhat is the point of this board? Is it just for incels who worship jap women?
>>537302053>Emu, a man in his 30s, says “bawk bawk, help me, bawk, I’m trapped in a bird body bawk”
>>537302065>A 12 year old was trafficked!Not a reason to ban prostitution. You can crack down on the illegal activity while permitting the normal activity.>It's more visibleSo what? Either it's acceptable and there's nothing wrong with it being out in the open, or it's unacceptable. I say it's acceptable. If a woman wants to sell access to her holes, so what?
>>537305565gay comment.
>>537308158A lot of things that are legal are still things ordinary people don't want to see, there's a difference between it being behind closed doors (and hopefully licensed and regulated, to keep out 12 year olds and control the spread of STDs) and it being in a public park.
>>537304823Usually it's a majority of women who oppose prostitution while most men are ok with it. That women see prostitutes as competition as something to be jealous of is one of the reasons.
>>537302053>>537302065Based. sex "work" should be banned.women shouldn't work at all.
>>537302053>working as a porn actressCode?
>>537302412It's a chink. Chinkshills love memeflags, because good VPNs are expensive.
>>537302053>>537302065Just like Thailand, it's only an issue when indians started to be able to afford travelling. Those disgusting fucks are all over Thailand and the girls have to suck and fuck them it's a shame
>>537303285Why do weebs pretend Takeshi Land isn't fag friendly? Nips in general are giga soft on various open sexual perversions. They do have have the marriage thing cause the culture around marriage is entirely different, they adopted western marriage relatively recently. I assume local fags don't even care about it so they haven't been asking much.
