Soapland
Soapland ( Japanese ソ ー プ ラ ン ド , Sōpurando ) are called special brothels in Japan , in which the clients are bathed by female prostitutes or bathe with them. There are also a few soap lands for female customers.
overview
The work area of women in the Soaplands consists of two rooms. In the smaller one there is a small couch and a bed. The larger one is a bathroom with a shower and space for an inflatable mattress. Usually the man's teeth are brushed and his body washed. Then he lies down on the mattress, the woman soaps herself with lotion and slides her body along the man's. This form of eroticism ( lotion-play ) is considered as a special brothel service, making soap Lands under all kinds brothel in Japan are the most expensive.
Soaplands were originally called Toruko-buro ( ト ル コ 風 呂 ), Turkish bath . The Turkish scholar Nusret Sancaklı ran a newspaper campaign to denounce the Japanese "Turkish" girls and the so-called Turkish baths. As a result, a new name was sought for these brothels nationwide, from which Soapland emerged as the winner.
Although prostitution has been illegal in Japan for more than 50 years, there are various ways of circumventing the ban, as prostitution roughly only defines the commercial offering of vaginal intercourse for money. “Private agreements” between a man and a woman, oral and anal intercourse and hand jobs are not included.
Tokyo's historic entertainment district of Yoshiwara is home to the largest concentration of soaplands.
See also
literature
- Nicholas Bornoff: Pink Samurai. Love, Marriage, and Sex in Contemporary Japan. Pocket Books, New York 1991, ISBN 0-671-74265-5 .
- Peter Constantine: Japan's Sex Trade. A Journey Through Japan's Erotic Subcultures. Yenbooks, Tokyo 1993, ISBN 4-900737-00-3 .