My research examines how the sex industry evolved in response to the economic recession over the last decade and half. From to , I interviewed sex workers, managers, and staff at an erotic outcall business featuring Japanese women in their forties through sixties. Enterprising managerial minds have been perceptive to emergent socio-economic vulnerabilities.
Jukujo workers inhabited a sex industry governed by the political economic and ideological imperatives of neoliberalism, rather than the logic of victims and perpetrators that abolitionists of the anti-trafficking movement have focused on. Challenging the normative assumption of sex work as always already lucrative, my research demonstrates a malleable sex industry intimately connected to systems like social welfare and the job market. Chiaki Nishijima is a social anthropologist of contemporary Japan whose research interests include sexual labor, social welfare, and political economy.
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