
Sex work: a brief history
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Sex Work in Japan
In ado japan, it's ting and how the figure of the courtesan is understood. If you've got a really wealthy client, if you're making a lot of money from this, now you're a mistress. And that was very true in ido japan, where they they, they legalized pleasure quarters,. The so called floating worlds. They weren't literally floating, but it was this kind of place where people could go and cast off the shackles of their everyday life. It didn't seem preferable to some who existed on the absolute margins of life - which i guess would be hard to consider today.
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