@Broken25 Every single one of those girls can easily leave if they so choose to and it's pretty damn easy to do so, unless they've debts to the establishment, whether they incur the debts fair or not, they can leave.
They are willingly selling themselves, whether in its lowest form: sex; or at its top value: entertainment, they are willingly selling their services with the help of establishments like what the granny owns. They provide shelter, protection, repuation, and depending on the girls' repuation and services they can provide, those establishments can even connect them with rich and powerful clientele, easily securing them money without having to go low as to sell sex.
But I will be fair and say that this isn't a clean and pure industry, everywhere you go, the bigger it is the more likey it has a dark underbelly. And the 'entertainment' industry, both then and now, will always have a dark repuation centered in a reality: many of those girls sucked into it have no real choice, many of them will die if they don't enter the industry. Orphans, poverty-stricken, children of criminals, the kidnapped or abandoned are easy sources for girls for this industry, there is no question that exploitation of the desperate occurs.
But despite that, you are most definitely wrong of your assesement of the Granny and the establishment she runs, so wrong that I even wonder if you are actually capable of basic reading comprehension or your naive mindset or preconception is preventing you from understanding the reality of the culture you're reading. I'm not even sure if I want to be civil at this point because i'm just so dumbfounded with your assesment that it makes it so hard for me not to picture some rainbow-color haired, conservative, radical feminist who can't fathom the thought of a respectable sex industry or sex industry without sex, or the thought that there really are women who willingly sell themselves or are able to actually enjoy their work in the sex industry
Helloooo?? The Granny does not allow sex in her establishment, virginity is extremely valuable and she will never sell any of her girls' for cheap, and so do her clientele, in fact, one of key points of this story that we've read so far is that it was set off exactly because one of her girl's had sex and she was ruined because of it, her establishment acts as medium for women to sell entertaining aspects of themselves outside of sex, establishing them as reputable women, so much so they can even choose who they may be able to marry with equal or more repuation as them. In their culture at the time, women who sold themeselves with sex are lowly prostitutes, with very, very low reputation whose clientele will rarely consist more than cheap laborours, men with spare change to buy some cheap sex in a rundown brothel or whatnot.
I'm still so dumbfounded that I actually think you're probably some radical feminist or someone whose lacking in reading comprehension.
I'm sorry for the insults but i'm just being honst.
