【Text/Financial Highlights Network Zhuang Boxuan】Have you seen AV?
I believe that there are many people's "youth enlightenment", which are Japanese AV films. And Japan's pornography industry, called "custom industry" in Japanese, has also been famous all over the world. In Tokyo's Kabukicho and Osaka's Hida Shinji, in the dark corners of the streets, customs and industries that roam the edge of the law are in full swing.
Maybe you will be fascinated, but a smiling woman, a college student who works in a convenience store during the day, saves money to go to college; or a housewife who takes care of her children at home to help her husband who is unemployed because of the epidemic; and a white-collar worker who is unemployed because of the epidemic...
Under the epidemic, it is difficult for everyone. In Japan, which is not far from us, women are being forced into the abyss of no retreat due to the epidemic.
First, in order to survive, they have no choice
First, let's briefly introduce the types of Japanese customs. The first is a bar and a nightclub, which is mostly a barmaid or a cowboy. Generally speaking, it is to drink and chat with guests, and the performance is calculated by the number of wines, and relationships are not allowed. But there are also people who "date" guests in order to stay.
With an annual income of tens of millions, Roland, the first cowherd in Japan
The second type is a massage parlor and a bathhouse. Although there is a law in Japan prohibiting the provision of sexual services, these shops charge "bath money" for tickets, and there are female employees who provide massage services. If the relationship "accidentally" occurs, it is a matter of "voluntariness" between the clerk and the customer.
The third is the "takeaway service" that has emerged in recent years. Contact by phone or website for on-site service.
Although Japan introduced the Spring Sale Prevention Act in 1956, there are still many custom shops that roam the edge of the law. In the matter of customs, the government, merchants and the people have reached a strange tacit understanding. Where there is demand, there will be a market, and there will be a more complex relationship of interests.
Because of the epidemic, more and more women are choosing to enter the customs industry. Japan's NHK has published a documentary interviewing women who have chosen prostitution because of the decline in income from the epidemic.
A woman in her 20s, Keiko, was laid off because of the pandemic. Now he works as a takeaway service at a custom shop and works part-time at a convenience store.
Keiko previously worked as a dispatch employee (i.e. non-regular employee) at the company, but was laid off due to the pandemic. Without some of the necessary qualifications and abilities, new jobs were not available and he had to enter customary industries to make ends meet.
"Because the employees of the epidemic company are all working from home, there is no need to dispatch employees." Next, I don't know what job I want to find, the wages of working in convenience stores are the minimum hourly wage, and I really can't sustain it. ”
Non-regular staff declined, with 70% being women
There is also a 25-year-old girl who has just graduated from college and now works at both the Customs Shop and the Pachinko Shop (Pachinko: Pinball Gambling Game Machine). Every day at dinner, she makes a cup of nutrition powder because she has to save money to pay off her student loans.
"While still in college, my mother committed suicide. When my mother died, I really didn't know what to do after that, and the money for ordinary part-time work was not enough, so I could only go to the custom shop. ”
The girl did not want to continue to work in the customs industry in the future. She wants to be a sign language interpreter and struggles to learn sign language every day, but she doesn't have enough money to pay for sign language lessons.
"Because of the epidemic, many plans have been disrupted, and we can only think of new ways." I also want to live an ordinary life and work ordinaryly. ”
There is also a kind of personal behavior called "daddy work" (looking for a dry father), which refers to knowing men through social platforms, eating with them to get paid, but also not only eating.
Because of the epidemic, there has been a surge in posts on social platforms looking for a dry daddy. One of the 30-year-old housewives was interviewed by NHK.
Housewife Mariko, her husband's income has plummeted due to the epidemic, and the family's life pressure has also become greater. The husband vented all the pressure on the housewife Who is at home with children, Mariko.
"'Obviously, she's a housewife with no income at all, don't point me in!'" 'I work so hard outside that it's too cunning for you to do nothing at home!' My husband used to say that to me. I couldn't get living expenses from my husband, and the family's food expenses could only be paid out of my savings. Because of the decrease in income, my husband always said very ugly things to me, and his spirit was really about to collapse. ”
Her child is still in kindergarten, and in order to ensure her child's food and tuition, she has eaten with more than a dozen men through "Daddy Live" and has a physical relationship. She wanted to refuse in her heart, but she could get tens of thousands of yen in honorariums every time, and she could only continue for the sake of her children.
"In the future, the expenses of raising children will be more and more, and I really need money." When I went to the hotel with those dry dads, they would force me to take videos, refuse to use contraception, and sometimes even be raped to the point of bleeding. It really hurt and I was scared, but I couldn't say it, and I couldn't escape. Why would I do such a thing? It's really sad. ”
Because "Daddy Live" has no legal protection, such forced things happen from time to time, and Shinriko can only continue to do it for the sake of her children. Although I also considered divorcing my husband, I quit my job in order to get married and did not have the courage to return to the workplace.
"If I don't live through my dad, I don't have the confidence to raise my children on my own." I'm not saying that I want to realize the luxury of having a premium brand and wanting to travel abroad, I just don't want to live an ordinary life like worrying about not having enough money every day..."
From the age of 20 to 30, many women choose customs for different reasons, but they just want to survive. Ironically, the social club responsible for introducing women has made a lot of money during the epidemic.
Because of the epidemic, more and more women choose to live as fathers. The head of a social club has introduced more than 1,500 women and collected an introduction fee. Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the turnover has been one million yen per month. You can earn tens of millions of yen a year.
"Inquiries have indeed increased, arguably the highest ever. Women are really dangerous in such an environment, but if you hate it, just don't do it. It would be best if women could survive without doing this kind of work, but my strength alone can't change all that. The head of the social club said.
Second, under the epidemic, the plight of Japanese women
During the pandemic, companies have laid off a lot of jobs, with women bearing the brunt of this.
In a street interview, a woman said she had been unemployed for 3 months. Another employee in the same position, although he did not have as much work experience as himself, and did not contribute more to the company, he was left behind.
And housewives are not as easy as they think. Just like the aforementioned Truth Son, because the husband's income has dropped sharply during the epidemic, then the husband will no longer give living expenses, and there is endless verbal violence. Housewives are incapable of working and can only enter the customs industry.
And in Japan, there are 1.23 million single mother-child families, compared with only 180,000 single-child families. During the epidemic, many single mothers have lost their jobs, and living expenses and children's education expenses are on their thin shoulders and difficult to get rid of.
Poverty rates in single-parent families as high as 66 per cent
According to the Cabinet Office of Japan, the number of unemployed women in Japan during the epidemic reached 740,000, more than twice that of men. In a questionnaire of women who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic, 60% of respondents believe that the pandemic has made life very difficult. Compared with the pre-epidemic period in 2019, the number of suicides among Japanese women has also increased by more than 80%.
The new crown virus not only infects the human body in a very rapid way, but also infects all walks of life and infects everyone's life. Women who choose to enter the customs industry also want to do ordinary jobs, but the layoffs in various companies make jobs difficult to find, and ordinary part-time income is simply not enough to support themselves and their families.
Some people may feel that people who do this kind of work just want to make a lot of money and want to live a prosperous and rich life. It is not excluded that there are such people, but another part of the people are really forced to retreat to a situation where there is no way to retreat. Japanese women are very passive in the workplace, while convenience store workers generally pay about 60 yuan per hour, and in a metropolis like Tokyo, such an income can only be said to be a drop in the bucket. What they need is not a "why don't you eat meat", but real money.
epilogue
In Japan, I have seen many custom shops on the street, and there is also a street of custom shops. For Japanese people, this is a good place to vent the bitterness of daily life, there is a person who can listen to his own complaints, speak sweet words that he loves to hear, and can also have a physical relationship.
There are many escort ladies and cowboys, who use the guests' admiration for themselves to earn a full house of high-end luxuries, so that guests can spend a lot of money in order to keep themselves. But women who choose to enter the customs industry because of the epidemic are more because of their livelihoods.
In Japan, there is a saying that "1 in 20 women in their 20s is a customs practitioner, 1 in 200 women is an AV actress", and "1 in every 20 women living in Tokyo is an AV actress".
According to the number of custom shops published by the government, there are currently about 300,000 people engaged in the Japanese customs industry. The customs industry produces up to 5.7 trillion yen a year, which can be said to be a pillar industry in Japan.
The market size of the custom industry of 5.7 trillion yen per year is twice that of the cosmetics industry, higher than that of convenience stores and restaurants, and is approaching tourism
This may also be the fundamental reason why the government has turned a blind eye. The epidemic is only a catalyst, Japan's high pressure, and the social environment that is not friendly to women, is pushing women into the abyss.
There is an old saying that "laugh at the poor and do not laugh at prostitutes". The plight of Japanese women is only a microcosm of women in the capitalist environment of the supremacy of money, even if it is a custom industry, it can bring huge benefits to the country and become part of the pillar industry. We must be vigilant and thank us even more for the fact that Greater China is not a country like Japan.