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04-20-2008, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post
This whole thread is exactly about literal terms, so it is impotant that you are clear about what you are trying to say.

Geisha are not prostitutes, traditionally or in modern times. They are paid private entertainers.

There is prostitution in Japan (it is not legal, but is also seen as a victimless crime, and not seriously pursued by authorities). Prostitutes in Japan do not pretend to be geishas to entice customers. If anything, they pretend to be schoolgirls.
I don't have enough knowledge about geishas to argue that.
But if they do or have ever sold their bodies sexually, they are ( Or were. ) indeed prostitutes.
Anddd you're intelligent but I'm not going to base my facts on geishas simply on what I've read here x.x orrr anywhere on the internet for that matter. I have a friend going to japan this summer who's going to uh real little geisha place thing to learn about them past and presently. So I rather base my opinion off that primary source.



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