Dex-chan lover
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- Aug 16, 2020
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Thanks, I'll be sure to check it out. Even if she wasn't 14/15 being in a position where you have clients and are pressured to do what they tell you to do it'd be hard for anyone to speak up, especially because companies value good reputations with customers rather than their workers wellbeing ://go on YT and search about an ex-maiko making "accusations" of misconduct of clients with her.
I think the problem is that in America (where I'm from) we're ignorant on certain aspects of the culture (which isn't necessarily bad because one can't know everything about a different culture). Most wouldn't know the difference between Maiko, Geiko, & Geisha, I didn't either until this manga. So people only know about Geisha, since that's who most foreigners interacted with between the 18th-20th century, & assumed all female entertainers who dress up traditionally are sex workers. Since no one ever cared to be correct.The culture can say what they want about how Geisha were never prostitutes
And I don't doubt that there probably were manors that secretly sold their girls as sex slaves to old men, didnt protect their girls from being assaulted let alone believe them, or even geiko sleeping with men now that they aren't bound by the rules of a manor. I think it's ignorant to say nothing ever happens. Like I mean, come on. Dudes are paying big money to have little girls serve them food, dance, and talk to them. Thats fucking weird.
I just think it's important to differentiate the two, since they are different, yet we can still acknowledge it wasn't and still isn't sunshine and rainbows