【Native Speaker每日综合训练—37系列】【37-07】经管 Sex Industry

JimmyCruz

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T3 3:20 (458)
读的最快的一篇文章科科科科
回忆：该文描述中国的性交易市场目前情况，举例东莞，说明性交易市场的巨大，并剖析为何会产生，为何会无法合法化？
Memo：
Recently, a crackdown took place thunderously leaded by communist party. According to communist party member, the major issue to tackle at present is corruption, and prostitution might be a great hotbed for corruption.
However, the sexual trade market, through all these years growth, has become too huge to stamp out immediately. Actually, it has become a backbone industry of China.
Dongguan, contributing some 50 billion yuan because of sexual industry alone, is always above the average national GDP. Dongguan has around 250000 prostitutes, embedded in saunas, hair salons or nice hotels.
Though dongguan might be an extreme case for china, a hotel CEO published an article to analyze how prostitution impact hotel industry. In the article, prostitution contributed some 500 billion yuan per year for GDP and an incident averagely costs 200 yuan.
Some analysts argue that since the industry is too big to fail, why not entrenched the nature of prostitution and discriminalize the industry? By doing so, prostitution employees could at least do body check regularly, thus avoid contagious disease or group sex.
In fact, it’s reform and opening up that boosts sexual market. An influx of people leaving their hometown tried to find a job in big cities ended up participating sexual trade, which is highly paid off. This market is facing a dilemma that on one hand, the officials want to whitewash their hand by eliminating this industry. On the other hand, it’s the officials and police that intervene with elimination process because they are involved or indulged in those sexual trades.

JimmyCruz

回忆：网络介入性产业后，性交易可能只是收入来源的一种？
Memo
According to a research done in 8 states of US, sex trade might have been a lucrative business. In atlanta, where sex trade took up the biggest ratio of total turnover, sex trade created 290 million annually—more than underground drug and gun trades combined.
However, the study dives deep into the trafficking problems in sex trade, it ignores some changes essential behind sex trade. UN report shows that sexual exploitation trafficking accounts for 58% of trafficking cases detected globally.
The picture drew by the report is too partial since the report cannot discover those who are far from violating rules or are in contact with law enforcement. But these freelancers might accounts for a huge percentage of modern era prostitution participants.
Sex trade has moved in doors, gentrified and privatized. It has become a common thing that unawared by your families and your friends, while easily change your financial situation at the end of a month. Someone who would never intend to do these would put up an ads and do a little work there. The internet might disrupted the whole sex industry by making it invisible than ever before.

JimmyCruz

Obstacles 8:50 (1220)
回忆：日本的色情行业举世瞩目，文章讨论了日本色情行业几个场景，比如cuddle café，比如love hotel比如hostess bar。
Memo
Sex industry in Japan is thriving. Relation is dissected and each part is individually packaged and priced. The ability to commodify the most sacred parts of human life leaves no surprise to Japan’s success.
Love and money become inseparate in most of the japanese mind. If you do have money, you buy pseudo love with it. If you do not have money, you fall in love with it. The commitment of love, however, has turned to be a hassle. Over 50% women in Japan is single, which makes Japan population undergoes a steepest decline.
Sex industry is related to trafficking, prostitutioni and black sex market. Most of the place for sex industry are in control of yakusa, the stronger cousin of mafia. Partly as a result, the forbidden of sex industry in Japan is half-hearted, no punishment is set for violation. Since officially, prostitution is forbiddened, brothels found other loopholes by developing various industries, such as image club or soapland. These industries are highly thriving, with over 1021 shops, 325000 workers and 24 billion dollar turnover annually.
Cuddle café, in which anyone could walk in, pick up a menu, order various of services such as sleep in a girl’s arm, or even sleep on the bottom of the girl. Here, men or women can replace the cold loneliness of single life with a warm hug from a stranger.
Since the beginning of the 19th Century – but more noticeably from the boom years of the 50s/60s – young couples, couples having an affair, and couples looking for a private space outside the crowded home have been able to walk into a Love Hotel on a whim, rarely approached by a member of staff. The novel idea is in the design, there are rooms designed to provide for every taste and fetish: from rooms equipped with a kinky array of sex objects to Star Wars themed rooms, they provide a space for the Japanese to spice up their sex life by officially marking the “hotel” as a place to “rest”. It is believed there are up to 30,000 Love Hotels across Japan, creating an industry that is worth four-trillion yen (nearly 24 billion pounds) a year, a statistic that makes it impossible to refute the role of love and sex in the economy. It has even been recognised as a recession-proof industry, explaining the surge of interest to cash in on it.