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Originally Posted by Kanji_The_Wanderer
@ SUKI - Never heard of such a thing, not saying it's not true, but it's surprising.
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What is, the fact he was sued?
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Iwasaki agreed to an interview by the author because she thought she could help dispel "the Fujiyama-geisha image of a woman who sells herself to her customers." She was shocked when Golden's novel turned out to be a narrative that contradicted her very intentions.
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
If you have time you might wanna read this over.
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Originally Posted by MMM
There were only pure geisha. If you were a prostitute, then you weren't a geisha. It's like saying "He was kind of a four-star general". Either you were or you weren't.
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Not the same. If you become a geisha, you don't stop being one by deciding to put your body up for sale for a little while. That's up to each individual person to decide how the want to earn a living, and it brakes no code nor does it make them look any less genuine.
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Originally Posted by EveV
>> A ceremony with sex for money involved.
Call it whatever fancy term you like. That was prostitution.
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No!! It's not sex for money! They don't get paid, their... "manager" does xD! And it's not like they decide to do it, it's something they
have to go through!