Idol Prostitution Rife, says Fallen Idol Minako Komukai
- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, News
- Date: Nov 19, 2008 13:16 JST
- Tags: AV, Gravure, H, Idol, Minako Komukai, Mizugi, Prostitution
Sacked gravure idol 小向美奈子 / Minako Komukai, pictured, offers shocking revelations about the routine sale of idols for sex, saying in an interview that it is a routine side business for countless idols.
The agency claims Ms Komukai was dropped over her various health problems, saying it could no longer support her career in the circumstances; a month later, she broke her silence over the matter with an interview given to Shuukan Post, and the revelations are as unsurprising as they are scandalous.
Much of the idol business operates alongside a sideline business of a “date club” organisation, she says. There, according to their fame, comeliness and similar, idols are ranked from A to D, and to each a corresponding price is attached, in order to partake of that particular idol-level.
We do not hear what the prices were, though we might suspect them to be a far cry from the immature opposite end of the spectrum.
“I saw so many gravure idols doing that, it was like a second job to them; like it was expected of us.” She is emphatic that she did not engage in such: “I swear to God, I never did anything like that.”
Although we can certainly ascribe to her motives of revenge against the trade which prematurely discarded her, as it eventually does to all its participants, her allegations are perfectly credible: we hear of similar recent scandals, for example in 2005 a group of idols sued their agency for damages over being forced into prostitution, and the courts ruled in their favour and ordered damages paid.
Another case in 2007 is spoken of, where the director of an agency was actually arrested for violating laws against prostitution.
Not all idols are so docile, however. One offers this in her confession:
“There was someone who wanted to buy my body. Why must I sell myself whilst working like that? If I have to do that, I’d sooner quit” – such was her statement on retiring from the profession.
Via NariNari.
As we have touched upon before, the image trades of idol, AV star, pop star, seiyuu, actress, etc., seem all to operate in a continuous complex of sexual commerce, with the proclivities of the buying audience (some pay for purity and virginity, or at least the appearance of such), along with the amount of money on offer from a given proposition, the chief determinants of what it is these professional entertainers get up to.
This is likely a pattern which is in Japan, as elsewhere, many centuries old. We might even recall, if you’ll forgive a sad orientalist cliché, the complex gradations of prostitute/entertainers, from street walker to geisha, which Japan has historically gained so much note for.
Surely it is the same the world over, but the size of the industry in Japan lends it considerable prominence.
You can examine the matter in more detail, of course.
That’s so sad, but not that surprising, to hear!
Komukai Minako? That’s the girl who sung Double Wind and Sweet Days for The Anime “Whistle”, right?
She’s credited for that anime so I presume so.
Sad stuff.:(
awesome! how do i fuck one?
u pop yer winkey in em
HOW MUCH FOR AYA HIRANO ?
If you have to ask…
I’m pretty sure it’s free.
Nobody wants a whale to straddle them.
Pschaw, she actually pays you to do her. It’s gotten so bad that she’s starved for attention, that whale-of-a-woman… \(´ 3`)/
No kidding?
That bitch Haruhi? That viral market girl Konata? “Iron Linebarrels’” “Funbags?” This woman’s got a rep as long as her arm.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=6581
Or is it true that she sold her own body to TMA? And Haruka Sanada is really Aya Hirano?
Yes kidding. Wonder what that whooshing sound over your head is?
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/08/09/aya-hirano-grossly-obese-vows-to-cut-flab/
Well I’m pretty sure it’s her. :P
She’s not fat. I KNOW what “FAT” is. And she’s nowhere NEAR “fat.”
Fine, I’ll explain the joke.
We all know she’s not fat. The joke is that she isn’t fat, but still whines on her blog that she is. That’s why we call her an attention-starved whale.
On the other hand, her lengthy work history doesn’t make for a good joke, because that’s something perfectly normal ever since the days of Hayashibara Megumi.
That’s not really a joke, that could be descending to anorexia. That’s bad.
You think Aya is fat?!I’ve been a chubby chaser all my life then…
I KNEW IT, THOSE IDOLS DO SELL THEIR BODIES >:O
Its the same everywhere, from celebrities to idols. If you’re famous, you’ll sell yourself at some point. Sad but true, I suppose.
I kinda figured there’d be something not openly shown about the idol-worshipping, and this is a depressing, but not completely surprising, revelation.
I guess the line’s kinda blurred when you’re in such a sexualized business to begin with.
Sadly, very not surprizing.
And I’d bet it’s about the same for the model/fashion industry.
HOW MUCH COULD COST HIRANO AYA???
Just give her surprise sex.It’s all the same to her.She doesn’t want it either way.But at least you won’t have spend money AND have to pay more via court.But I’d trade my DS lite for Aya.JUS=Sex for me.
This is one side of the gravure idol business that we don’t know of…
I really wonder how this wasn’t leaked out earlier, or to have gone on so long unconfirmed. I mean, certainly, not all the men keep their mouths shut, right? Additionally, how do people learn about it from each other anyways?
Seems weird to have needed to take so long for the information to come up.
…lol i am surprised
that people are thinking this is “Surprising”
this type of thing happens all over the world.
and having this being centered on Japan, is not surprising.
Yes, it was pretty obvious that there would be such things in that kind of business. Idols are after all just fap material…
Just hope this revelation somehow opens the eyes of some naive girls, though won’t happen I guess.
Well the economy has fallen on hard times, I am so not surprised. Besides thsee would certainly be out of my favor.
Not surprising really. And parents are turning a blind eye over this just because they can get easy monies.
Meanwhile, in the USA (Nevada atleast), women are flocking in droves to get jobs as brothel workers. The economy had gotten so bad that long-travelling truck drivers had seen state-okayed prostitution as a luxury they can’t afford.
Hmmm… I’d ask for a bit more honesty in the Idol business. But then the women one would get would be as ugly as hell.
And I don’t really want to see the end come for the Idol business. Just the end of the public humiliation. The women over there sing good, look good, do good voice-acting work, etc. Who needs more pressure?
Just as I suspected . . . see?! and they said I was crazy . . .
So, does this mean that Kannagi could be an idol anime after all?
sexzs
So does this mean we are still not going to see her even nude?
I knew Minako while living in Japan 3 years ago. She was nothing but great times and very generous to all her friends.
Fuck, i’d pay to do em.