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Weigookin74
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 Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| goreality wrote: |
Japanese modernized prostitution in Korea during the colonial period.
As for simply calling the numbers up, usually they are cell phones which are probably registered under names that wouldn't be the people answering. Gangs often run these establishments and gangs also lend people money. People who owe gangs money must do them favors, like allowing them to open bank accounts, credit cards, commercial retail spaces, and phones registered under their names.
These poor suckers already have enough problems, as do the people working in the physical establishments, without being forced by the police to reveal who the real criminals are. They possibly only know middle men as well.
Organized crime often runs in circles and the prostitutes are only some of the victims. Imagine having to borrow 10,000$ to support your family or gambling habit. Then you are told open us up a bank account, rent this place out, and get a few phones and internet service. "Pay back the money now or do us a favor, or we will kidnap your children and harass you."
Furthermore, when busting these places lists are often found of all the people who used these services. These lists can include influential people who want to be free from blackmail and enjoy bribes and services for protection.
With legal prostitution, organized criminals lose one more source of revenue. Since it has been made illegal, gangs and pimps have thrived and prostitution has only become more dangerous for both the prostitute and the user. |
I don't want to advocate the decriminalization of prostitution, but it appears that if prostitution is very underground and is not regulated, it may be easier to exploit the women who end up as prostitutes. Those who simply say the answer is simply "Don't cheat on your wife or girlfriend" do ignore that so many single men frequent them regardless of what brought the women into the trade, and since there's no regulation, it's easier to mistreat those women. They have no protection. I'm all for men being faithful to their wives, girlfriends, and single men finding girlfriends rather than going to prostitutes and for prostitution to disappear, but I could wish pigs could fly. |
Good point. Don't necessarily support prostitiution. But am a realist. I know it will exist. But why solicit or litter cards everywhere? That should end. There are families and kids who should not see this. As for consenting, non enslaved adults doing whatever between themselves and doing it discretely, well...... Do your thing, but don't shove it in others faces. Don't solicit or have cards everywhere. That said, it's more tame than Tokyo. Roppongi and Kabuchiko..... |
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