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Sex coated with honey makes you more money, fuzoku fillies find 2007,07,07
Shukan Taishu (July 17) By Masuo Kamiyama
"The most I make in one day is about 150,000 yen.
Even though I'm not especially in high demand, that's about what a gal at a 'soap' can expect to bring in."
So says a lady who goes by the professional name Higuchi, whose place of employment is the romantically monikered soapland-cum-brothel "Don Juan," situated in Tokyo's centuries-old Yoshiwara red-light district.
According to calculations by Shukan Taishu (July 17), for Ms. Higuchi to clear that daily figure would require the servicing of four to five clients -- a physically demanding job if there ever was one, as each session involves 120 minutes of ministering to the client's libido, in the form of repeated sessions of oral sex interspersed between energetic coital couplings.
The magazine is determined to know these things, because it's convinced that the soapland girls and those who toil at other sex businesses who are most skilled at pleasing their customers can definitely clean up, so to speak, and rake in the kind of big money that lets them live off the fat of the land.
In this article, Shukan Taishu posed a battery of very personal questions -- everything from the age at which they lost their virginity to the size of their earnings -- to 100 ladies of the night.
Of the 100, 35 of the females were employed at soaplands, with the remaining 65 toiling at various erotic massage parlors and other facilities.
For fillies who frolic in foam at the soaplands, the daily norm averaged over 100,000 yen, with two respondents saying their earned twice that figure, i.e., working every other day realized an income in the neighborhood of 2.4 million yen.
Annualized, that's as much as the director of a medium-sized company.
For gals in the non-soap sex businesses, the median figure was still about half of the soaps, 1 million a month --- still quite an incentive for selling one's sweet flower of youth.
From the responses, it also appears that girls at the non-soapland jobs were far more likely to fall emotionally for their Johns.
In fact, one out of every 2.5 admitted they occasionally did so.
Under what circumstances do the ladies respond, physically and emotionally, to the stimuli provide by customers?
Ultimately, Shukan Taishu learned from their responses, any ecstatic emotions are directly
Maako Fujita, who works for a Nagoya delivery health (sex outcall) service, says she is most attracted to men with quirky personalities.
Azusa, who works at a delivery health in Akabane, Tokyo, by the name of "Pain and Pleasure Sexual Harassment Academy," tells the magazine, "I like what I call the 'daddy' type of customer, that is, good-looking men from their late thirties to their early 40s.
They really cheer me up."
Shukan Taishu also asked the girls how they defined a "regular" customer.
"For me, a guy who comes for a blow bath and a steam job once a month is enough," winks Wakaba, who works at Ikebukuro.
"They'll clean up at the racetrack or receive their company bonus and then drop by to celebrate."
But the exotic Ageha, a willowy wench with long bangs, and who models her T-back underwear for the magazine, says her best regulars come to her soapland in Kobe's Fukuhara district as often as once a week.
"I've got one, for example, who comes by each Monday, without fail," she says.
"If they don't drop in for their 'treatment' I start to worry about them, and send them an e-mail or phone to make sure they're okay."
So there you have it, all you MBAs out there.
The secret to success in the soapy and sordid sex trade is ... customer relationship marketing. (By Masuo Kamiyama, people's pick contributor)
July 7, 2007
