I just looked outside the window of my hotel...and saw 2 captive giant sea turtles and...a stripclub across the street! (i also live across a few hostess or "girls bars" on this street in Kawasaki. In Japanese, the sex industry is known as "mizu shobai" 水商売 which derives from the old Tokugawa era floating world period. I just learned that making money in the industry; gain or loss is a matter of chance, having to do with floating, drinking and the impermanence of life. Making money in this biz is a matter of chance (a matter of water) they say, however the goddess would like to think it is a matter of FLOW and being in FLOW. (like water). Diversifying your income has been the way to go for me, as well as it helps eliminate dependence on the next client to pay the bills or act out of desperation. Do not be a barnacle clinging to a rock in the floating world...in my early 20s when I first started stripping I can remember counting cobwebs for fun while staring at the theater ceiling to occupy my time. Ive even inquired at a local Roppongi hostess club here in Tokyo but the two times I walked into this tiny one room bar, at the bar sat 4 other ladies and no customers, bored and sitting quietly. Totally reminded me of my stripper days. Thank goddess I run my own water business now. Needless to say, i passed on that hostess job when I discovered a way to get clients here in Japan. If i am to take up a mizu shobai job in Japan primarily for the cultural experience of it all, I want it to be something I've never done in America. And...sitting alone waiting for customers to walk in the door is something I am unfortunately, all too familiar with. I'd rather dress up like a maid and serve smiley panda pancakes. Maid cafes are for the “happy cute fetish”ists. Go to Akihabara and you'll find maids, i kid you not on EVERY CORNER enticing male customers and passing out flyers, just like the Latino workers with the agency escort flyers ($30 to your door) on the Vegas strip do. They only serve food in costume, nothing more sexual than the average school girl group of 30 bouncing around singing pure happy, and just like the $30 agency escort, the final bill is NEVER what you thought it would be.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Water, Sex work and The Floating World of Japan
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