Japanese Schoolgirl Sex Codes

(Photo by Teafor2)

I haven’t blogged about teenage prostitution in Korea in a while, and didn’t plan to today, but post titles like “Japanese Schoolgirl Sex Sellers Use Codes for Carnality“ do get one’s attention (as did my truncated version, yes?). Seriously though, when I read that it reminded me of this post of mine where I discussed Korean dating sites, many of which it turns out are basically fronts for teenage prostitution, and the article I translated there said that clients and sellers were using increasingly elaborate codes and signals on the sites’ chatrooms to avoid the attention of the police and organizations like the Korea Internet Safety Commission. I don’t know what these Korean codes are sorry, but that article goes into quite some detail on the ones used in Japan.

Once I get my current series of posts out of the way, I might do some research of my own and see if anything new has been happening to stamp out teenage prostitution here since I wrote my post in August. Probably nothing, but I wonder if it fell under the purview of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, and if so if efforts to combat it have completely stalled since Lee Myung-bak announced that it would be downsized and merged with the Ministry of Health and Welfare?

In the meantime, just in case this post didn’t remind you of how different Korea and Japan really are, this photo I just found on Flickr certainly will. As the photographer pointed out, it was being sold in the toy section of his local supermarket. And as an added bonus for those Japanese learners amongst you, if you click on the link below then you’ll come to a bigger photo with translations of everything.

(Photo by locket479)

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