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cmxc
Joined: 19 May 2008
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 Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:44 pm Post subject: Korea's sex workers per capita |
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I've always wondered how Korea compared to other nations with regard to sex workers per capita.
I had always suspected Korea might be one of the nations on earth with the most prostitutes per capita, and this article purports to show that Korea ranks as the 2nd highest in the world, and the 1st ranked in prostitutes per capita in Asia.
This is why I say that statistically, and despite how many Korean women get masters and advanced degrees, they still have much greater chances of winding up as sex workers than making it to manage level or higher working for a Korean company.
Top 10 countries with the most prostitutes
http://www.funnymalaysia.net/top-10-countries-with-the-most-prostitutes/ |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:09 am Post subject: |
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And what is wrong with being a sex worker (other than your own overzealous set of self-righteous morals)?
The profession has been around longer than teachers or bible-thunpers.
A more telling statistic might the ratio of fast-food workers or entry level/minimum wage service jobs per 100,000.
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basic69isokay
Joined: 28 Sep 2014
Location: korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| No surprise here. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:07 am Post subject: |
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| I would sleep with women if they paid me. Has to be a decent amount though, and no ass play. Definitely no ass play. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:17 am Post subject: |
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Just imagine how many hookers there would be in Korea if they let foreigners in on the fun.
A more telling statistic would be how many johns there are in Korea. |
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:22 am Post subject: |
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CMXC is obviously hates Koreans.
As for sex I would only do the hardcore stuff. |
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joelove
Joined: 12 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 11:26 am Post subject: |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
Just imagine how many hookers there would be in Korea if they let foreigners in on the fun.
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A few more? |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, they're around. I've even been approached in some part of Seoul not Itaewon for a massage. It was one of the guys outside inviting me inside his anma to meet some ladies. I didn't do it. But, it was a weeknight and it seemed low traffic when I was walking back to my motel as I was staying in Seoul for a few days last winter. A weekend might have resulted in me not being approached. So, maybe foreign guys or some are allowed into it. Who knows? I have heard most of the pink houses will reject you unless you go there really late, but I have no first hand experience at that. Just what I hear.
As for hookers, are we sure Thailand isn't first? After all, you have so many Japanese and Korean men going down there for it. Korea was poor until recently. So, I'm just not seeing it like I use to (coffee shops, double barber poles, etc). Of course, much of it has gone further underground and is more than appears. Still, I wonder if it's as much as even 5 years ago. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| joelove wrote: |
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Just imagine how many hookers there would be in Korea if they let foreigners in on the fun.
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A few more? |
Maybe a lot more. Korea doesn't have the sex tourism of Thailand and the Philippines that largely caters to foreigners. Right now, there are apparently more prostitutes here than either of those countries who serve just Koreans. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I question who qualifies as a "sex" worker here. Many of the dabang and singing girls don't offer any actual sex. According to Korean friends, they just call you oppa and serve you coffee or sing songs for you at the noraebang (while trying to get you to spend as much money as possible of course.) |
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misher
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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Most likely a high percentage.
The thing is, a lot of women who work in the sex industry in Thailand and the Philippines are dirt poor. They come from rural backgrounds and know that the money they can make in one week of work as a bar girl will be a lot more than what their parents farm will make in a year.
I've met Korean room salon women at 10 pro circuit that had master's degrees from EWHA. That is unreal.
Would they sleep with any guy that offered money? Absolutely not. But if the price was high enough...
I don't have a problem with it. But it does explain why Korean men constantly worry about their partner's "sordid" past. There is just such a high chance.
Only in Korea (maybe Japan too?). Sorry. |
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misher
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I question who qualifies as a "sex" worker here. Many of the dabang and singing girls don't offer any actual sex. According to Korean friends, they just call you oppa and serve you coffee or sing songs for you at the noraebang (while trying to get you to spend as much money as possible of course.) |
Well, I would say MOST women would not offer sex. They just do the things you mention. But that is because the prices on offer are just not high enough. Sorry, you put yourself in that situation, there eventually will be a price that can't be resisted.
According to my Korean friends, it starts with a designer handbags in exchange for a weekend or two at a love motel in one of those love motel parks in the middle of nowhere kangwondo. It's basically sex for money and I guess we would call it a sugar daddy in the west. However it all starts at the room salon. |
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joelove
Joined: 12 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
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Just imagine how many hookers there would be in Korea if they let foreigners in on the fun.
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A few more? |
Maybe a lot more. Korea doesn't have the sex tourism of Thailand and the Philippines that largely caters to foreigners. Right now, there are apparently more prostitutes here than either of those countries who serve just Koreans. |
Guess Korea doesn't need the cash as badly. Actually don't they make up a good number of sex tourists in those countries? Plus you know how much they'd hate having dirty foreigners coming over to pay for sex with their women. I bet a lot of Thais and Filipinos hate it too, but money is money. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| misher wrote: |
Most likely a high percentage.
The thing is, a lot of women who work in the sex industry in Thailand and the Philippines are dirt poor. They come from rural backgrounds and know that the money they can make in one week of work as a bar girl will be a lot more than what their parents farm will make in a year.
I've met Korean room salon women at 10 pro circuit that had master's degrees from EWHA. That is unreal.
Would they sleep with any guy that offered money? Absolutely not. But if the price was high enough...
I don't have a problem with it. But it does explain why Korean men constantly worry about their partner's "sordid" past. There is just such a high chance.
Only in Korea (maybe Japan too?). Sorry. |
Some get lured by easy money. They realize what they can make and go for it. Some western women who go to Japan as English teachers have been known to switch voer to hostess bars and compensated dating. Remember that Governor of New York scandal a few years back and all those call girls? Did some of them go to school or were putting themselves through school? (Sure not all, but you know.) Big city girls from poor backgrounds or where there aren't strong family ties, you have to be very discerning. Small town girls, you can try to figure out what their family is like and how they were raised.
When I stayed in Seoul, at this one hotel, I saw girls walking out a certain door. I had a medical procedure done and they booked me in this hotel for a couple of days at a discount. In the basement was a business club. I went down to another floor as it had a laundromat and I washed some clothes. On this floor, rooms were rented hourly, while other floors were used by tourists. Girls went up from the basement via another elevator to this floor and then went down the regular elevator to the lobby and walked out and so did cutomers. It was all very discrete. It took me a couple of days to put two and two together. I saw some girls leaving near midnight via this floor to go home. I think others stayed till the wee hours. So, mayeb the ones who left near mid night were part timers who had office jobs and you know they were just earning extra cash. So, any girl you date in Seoul, know her well before you fall in love and get married if that's your goal.
Not so sure about Korea, as feminism seems to be taking more hold here than in Japan. But, in Japan they use culture as an excuse to be sexist and racist. Women are still given crappy jobs and crappy pay in spite of being educated. They are expected to get married and leave the office. So, women there have to choose a career or a family. Many others want to be a celebrity and fail. What options are there? Bathhouses, massages, strippers, doing porn, etc. Not so sure if those exact rules apply to here in the same way. (Obviously, Korea doesn't put out porn like Japan.) It seems on the surface women here do have somewhat more independance than in Japan. But, what do I know.
Anyways, let women enter the workforce, have flex time, end sexual harassment, allow for maternity leave, etc and you might just find less getting pulled into unsavourary professions. Of course, some will still do it, always. But, you will reduce the incentive and the pull. The reality of a society industrializing and costs going up is that two people will have to work. Men will no longer be the breadwinners they are or are expected to be today in Korea. (Not since my parents youth have men been able to be the breadwinners. Jobs just don't pay right out of high school like they use to.) |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| joelove wrote: |
| cj1976 wrote: |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
Just imagine how many hookers there would be in Korea if they let foreigners in on the fun.
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A few more? |
Maybe a lot more. Korea doesn't have the sex tourism of Thailand and the Philippines that largely caters to foreigners. Right now, there are apparently more prostitutes here than either of those countries who serve just Koreans. |
Guess Korea doesn't need the cash as badly. Actually don't they make up a good number of sex tourists in those countries? Plus you know how much they'd hate having dirty foreigners coming over to pay for sex with their women. I bet a lot of Thais and Filipinos hate it too, but money is money. |
Generally speaking, foreigners in those countries are serviced by different prostitutes than the ones who service the locals. |
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