NHK has aired a shocking special on schoolgirl prostitution, or “enjo kousai” as the media persists in calling it, going into great detail on the topic – although many have questioned the extraordinarily sympathetic tone the programme adopts, as well as the fact it was aired on morning TV and included some perhaps unnecessarily detailed guidance as to how to decipher the online slang used in the trade…
The special on enjo kousai aired as part of NHK’s morning show “Asa Kara,” and is presented below with some translation and annotation:
“By having sex with someone, it means I’m needed by someone”
“Puchi-enkou – I sold things like hair and spit to people if there were buyers.”
[“Kamimachi” – men arranging to lodge homeless girls at their place in return for sexual favours]
“I go to the man’s house, and in return for letting me stay I let him have my body.”
“[Whilst doing him] I wanted to die, and afterwards I did some wrist cutting.”
“I went there and we did it in his car.”
“After he treated me to a meal the next day…”
“… he told me to take my money and get out, he only gave me ¥1,000 though.#
“If you’re in your thirties or forties I bet you have sex even if you’re not paid.”
“I think it’s pretty sad to be doing a dirty woman like that.”
[How to say ‘JK for 15,000, hotel fee not included, at Ikebukuro’ in enkou cant]
A certain amount of scepticism regarding how NHK chose to present this issue (not least in managing to find a schoolgirl prostitute whose main objective is not money) is undoubtedly warranted, and naturally there is only one place to turn to when it comes to information regarding paying schoolgirls for sex:
“Was it really necessary to expound so fully upon the slang used on enkou boards?”
“Why are they airing this stuff in the morning!?”
“So she’s pretending she’s some kind of tragic heroine…”
“They are really spoiling these kids with this coverage – ‘won’t you understand them?’ etc.”
“Honestly, this programme is practically affirming schoolgirl prostitution.”
“And now they are going to blame everything on the parents.”
“Parents who raised such a spoiled brat really are to blame.”
“These kids have everything but they still want even more!”
“Are those people morons or something? Call it prostitution, not ‘enkou’!”
“Why is a child doing these things!?”
“They need to stop calling it ‘compensated dating’!”
“Just the kind of bitches you guys love.”
“Damn, I got hard.”
“She’s just a total prostitute, isn’t she?”
“Why are we supposed to feel sorry for these criminals?”
“Give us a break, airing this stuff in the morning!”
“This is a pretty helpful programme.”
“It’s a bit early in the morning to be continuously saying sex all the time…”
“What are they babbling about? ‘Darkness of the soul,’ give me a break!”
“You’ve got a home, so return there!”
“Crazies, no thanks.”
“A cutter…”
“Normal people cannot understand cutters.”
“‘Wrist cutting is proof I’m alive’ – not that stuff again…”
“There’s no meaning at all to wrist cutting. It’s just self-gratification.”
“Crazies basically just try to act out the role of tragic heroine.”
“I get the impression she just likes being miserable.”
“One of the presenters seems to want to say ‘stop making your environment into excuses to prostitute yourself.'”
“Why do people give children mobile phones?”
“Having kids is such a gamble.”
“Quit blaming it on the age we live in!”
“They are trying to make out that this is more about family problems than it is about prostitution itself.”
“Why are we even listening to the self-serving opinions of a prostitute?”
“The pussy is such a set-up!”
For a more frank account, see the previously featured confessions of such a girl to 2ch.
Nothing like telling woman they can fuk around as much as they want. Yet not teaching them their body have value that CAN be diminished.
I would not date girl with wrist cuts. Too sacred she could cut someone else when in emotional distress.
I find it ironic that the whole reason child abuse images and underage prostitution is illegal is to prevent children from being exploited.
Yet, isn’t that what this program is doing?
I knew a few wrist-cutters in high school and they all had serious and obvious mental health issues. Only spoke about it with one of them and she said she did it because it was the only pain she felt that she could be in control of. I didn’t really get it back then because I was still a kid but as an adult, I can understand.
lol at ass kara, anyho someone needs to translate the images that had wall boards and what they say/mean
no ayahira** this time around?
This is ridiculous. If they actually felt bad, these girls would get sent to get some counseling, not and expose on morning TV. Then again, last I heard Japan is pretty much a fend for yourself country. In any case, prostitutes that get a much better payroll than be people doing good hard work are not getting any sympathy from me. Even if these few are really miserable, Lots of them prey on sexless hopeless men to provide their life for them. “Oh no, I left home/dropped out of school/ran away and now I spread my legs for free money.” In any case, how is this any different than The 9 Things Women Look for in a Man? Aside from sex, is there really much? And that cat in the last few shots? Isn’t it obvious? For those who want real pussy, the have the “A Cat is Fine Too” bundle.