Prostitution Business Performance
The heading may sound strange but I could not find any other words that are more appropriate, and thus “Prostitution Business Performance.” Its meaning is very similar to the business performance of stores in general.
Prostitutes can be categorized as house wives (madams) and indentured prostitutes, who work for the houses. Normally, house wives have their husbands but it is rare for them to have married in Japan. In most cases they informally form partnerships in this country. The greatest power in a cave is held of course by a husband and a wife. Some couples own their own house and others do not; usually they rent houses from others.
How do these owners make profit? They have their prostitutes, for whom the owners pay four or five hundred dollars each to acquire. This means that the prostitutes owe this money to the owners.
By the way, it is exceptionally difficult for the indentured prostitutes to redeem their debts. This is because they are required to give half of their everyday earnings to their owners. They must not have much income in the recent bad economy. From this income they return their debts, pay police fines, and buy their kimono and other items, which comes at a large cost. Considering this, their situation should be described as miserable.
There is a situation like this: A woman is smuggled from Japan by a devil. She is forced to divide her everyday earning into four/six; six fills the devil’s pocketbook; she only gets four, out of which she is obliged to pay her transportation cost and other debts. This is ridiculous. Therefore, it is not wrong to say that it is the owners who make profit from prostitution. In addition, the owners also sell alcohol to their clients and the profit from this is not little. Once prostitutes finish returning their debts they are set free and they are absolutely no longer bound by others. They start traveling other places to make lovers. Of course some of them continue working at the same employers’ houses.
The ones who are working in prostitution at ease without having these relations are those who work individually, in a combination of a single man and woman, and occupy places without Japanese or other Japanese-run caves nearby. You might wonder how they tolerate living in such deserted places, but in fact they rather offer comfortable environments for them. You can understand why these prostitutes work individually here and there.
To speak about clients, caves never have Japanese clients but whites and Chinese. There are many reasons why they do not have Japanese clients but I will leave this for tomorrow’s paper.