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

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.

Apraura

Speed:
1.        (2’41’’) The impressive crackdown to Dongguan sexual industry represents the firm attitude of Communist Party to corruption. But other voice is emerging, wondering the influence of China’s economic growth brought by this practice.
2.        (2’58’’) Economists point out that sex industry has a deep, expanded root in China, which can be barely eliminated. Furthermore, while the Communist Party is illegalizing the prostitution, the members of political sphere are obsessed by these wonderlands.
3.        (2’48’’) The burgeoning of sex industry is promoted by the lack of occupation opportunities and positive support. Trafficking and prostitution have connections. But the implicative punishment of illegal trafficking results in the marginalization of prostitution is doubtful.
4.        (2’33’’) Among various industries, sex industry is unique and lucrative. As the era changes, the way of prostitution also evolved. Government places more attention on prostitution trafficking because it involves gun and drug transaction.
5.        (2’19’’) Sex industry is moving from substantial to the internet trade, from outdoor to indoor and from public to private. These changes cater to the increasing police force and diminish the danger of occasional prostitution.
Obstacle:
(6’26’’) As well as other countries, Japan illegalize sex industry, but in a more casual way. Same as other nations’ sex industry, Japan’s love and sex business accounts for a great deal of GDP growth. But what different than other countries is that Japan has a more various and bold sex industry. In Japan, marriage is an old tradition, and people tend to focus on their jobs rather than emotional life. This condition offers a hotbed for sex and love industry, and it even evolved to a modern industry.

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Obstacle: 7”54 [1255]