Comments on: The Week In Links–June 21st

By: LoriAdorable

LoriAdorable — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:28:07 +0000

In reply to Jason. So basically you don't think Japanese sex workers are assaulted and killed (which would make them a lucky exception among sex workers worldwide) by the Nice White People because some Japanese kid called you an ape. Yo, I wonder why he would do that. The violence is well-documented. Try again.

By: Jenny DeMilo

Jenny DeMilo — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:47:07 +0000

P411 did a work verify on the potential client (which is what most screening services do) Then he got “OKs” from others to bolster his legitimacy by “meet and greeting” I feel as if P411 really screwed up on this one but there is plenty of blame to go around. The ladies who met with the under cover then “OK’d him when it was just a coffee meet up are also on shaky ground. Sadly 22 people have to deal with arrest now. But let this be a warning…You have to do your OWN screening and never rely on one source. You need to check, double check and triple check. Never let someone else carry the burden of your freedom or safety.

As to trafficking… yeah thats just a red herring.

By: Charlotte Shane

Charlotte Shane — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:27:21 +0000

In reply to Jason.

Maybe it’s because the link was broken, but it doesn’t sound like you read the article. There are tons of first person quotes within the piece, including one from a prostitute, so I’m not sure why you’re trying to cast aspersions on the journalist’s work.

But yeah, it’s probably those “closed” Japanese sex workers being xenophobic rather than the US military—which has a proven history of many recent sexual assaults and rapes—actually being a threat to their well-being.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:45:03 +0000

To be fair to the US military personnel stationed in Okinawa, Japan is a strange and still very closed country that aggressively despises foreigners (the ‘gaijin’). It’s not uncommon for rumours to do the rounds like “HIV comes from the gaijin”, for people to refuse to speak in Japanese to a gaijin because Japanese is for Japanese people (even if the Japanese person doesn’t speak English, which is often, leaving no language for communication), for stripclub/nightclub/karaoke/bar bouncers to proclaim in loud and clumsy English “Japanese Only!”, or for Japanese teenagers to make ape sounds when a foreigner walks past. Or at least, this is the Okinawa I saw earlier this year.

So, when I see something like… Okinawan prostitutes won’t see US Servicemen because they’re violent, well, maybe that’s true, and maybe that’s not true. I’ll grant it’s plausible though, given that the US Military still doesn’t take sex-related crimes seriously. But it could also be just another part of Japan’s deep seated hatred of foreigners boiling over again.

However, the article isn’t thorough in how it forms its view. The journalist, what, looked at a Japanese newspaper, then asked one brothel owner, and that’s it? It’s a serious topic, and it deserves a more careful research than that.

Also, just thought you should know, the link for the Okinawa article is broken; it’s missing s hyphen.

By: AP

AP — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:01:17 +0000

U.S. Supreme Court and the Anti-Prostitution Pledge: Ladies, do you know something we don’t? 🙂

“6-2 decision (with Justices Scalia and Thomas dissenting, AND JUSTICE KAGAN RECUSED)”