Soapland
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Soapland (ソープランド sōpurando?) is a Japanese word for a type of brothel where men can be bathed by and can bathe with female prostitutes (there are a few for a female clientel[1]). Soaplands are special in the idea that the woman's work area has two rooms in it. One is a small area with a small couch and bed, and the other is a large shower room that has a large bath and room for an inflatable mattress. Commonly the man has his teeth brushed and body washed. He then lies on the air mattress while the female employee covers herself with liquid lotion and slides her body up and down the man's body. She gracefully slides in between his legs, under and around his body. This form of eroticism is considered to be the highest quality and thus soapland costs the most of the various types of Japanese brothels . If the man so chooses they can engage in sex there on the mat. If not when the "mat play" is over they rinse off and go to the bed to have sex.
Soaplands were originally called toruko-buro (トルコ風呂?), meaning Turkish bath. A Turkish scholar, Nusret Sancakli, set off on a newspaper campaign to denounce Japan's Turkish girls and the so-called Turkish baths they worked in"[2], and the word "soapland" was the winning entry in a nationwide contest to rename the brothels[3]. Although prostitution has been illegal for more than fifty years in Japan, various sex businesses are allowed by law since the legal definition of prostitution loosely translates to the commercial offering of genital penetration in exchange for money. For example, the definition of "prostitution" does not extend to a "private agreement" reached between a woman and a man, nor does it cover penetration of the mouth or anus or any form of contact which results in the client reaching orgasm.
The historical entertainment district of Tokyo, Yoshiwara, is still associated with fūzoku (fūzoku eigyō (風俗営業?), "sex industry") and has the largest concentration of soaplands in the city.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Boye Lafayette De Mente, Sex And the Japanese: The Sensual Side of Japan, (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2006), 58.
- ^ Peter Constantine, Japan's Sex Trade: A Journey Through Japan's Erotic Subcultures, (Tokyo: Yenbooks, 1993), 37–8.
- ^ Ibid.
