Enjo-Kosai, shortened form we called it enko, means compensated dating. The term of enjo-kosai is first appeared in the Asahi Shimbun on 20 September 1994. According to Wikipedia, it is a practice which originated in Japan where older men give money and/or luxury gifts to attractive women for their companionship, and possibly sexual favors. The female participants range from primarily school-age girls to housewives.
You can easily get the news about enjo-kosai by newspaper or just google it on the net, it had already become a very normal but serious cases all around the world. The anthropologist Laura Miller argues in her research that the majority of enjo-kosai dates consist of groups of girls going with a group of elder men to a karaoke bar for several hours and being paid for their time. Besides, in 1998 a survey by Asian Women’s Fund found that more than twenty percent of all high school girls are engage in enjo-kosai. This is a very worst data that shown us how serious enjo-kosai is in nowadays, and also perceived as an extension of Japan’s growing focus on materialism.
Yes, in this realistic world one thing we cannot deny is there are many people who are materialistic, and this is the main causes of why enjo-kosai happened. Some of them lack of confidence and hope to gain it by showing off what they have, but most of times they do not afford to have those luxury brand product, so what they do? Some choose to rob, steal, and for some, especially the girls, they choose enjo-kosai, compensated dating. Of course there are also guy who did the same, and we called it as gyaku-enjo-kosai, or reverse compensated dating.
Materialism, become the main reason and cause of enjo-kosai. So, what is the effect that bringing to the society? In the perception of the Japanese society, they started to worry that those girls who are involved in enjo kosai will then grow up to be unfit wives or mothers in one day later, and their this kind of bad habit, materialism, will bringing a bad effect to their family and life. They might abandon their loyalties and commitments to their family just for offers of money and material benefits. Another thing that the Japanese society worries is how the world will think of the Japanese women. I believe when we talk about Porn or Av, a lot people will then point to the Japan women, which is actually a big wrong perception by the world. A good woman in Japan is supposed to be sensible, modest, nurturing, respectful, yet the girls who participating in enjo-kosai had spoiled the image badly.
Japan government has actually ban or illegalize the coitus prostitution early since 1958, which mean enjo-kosai are not a legal activity in Japan. In japan, enjo-kosai is seen as a moral problem relating to Japanese youth. To combat enjo-kosai, many prefectures have instituted a program call hodo. Hodoin, are actually plain-clothed police officers or volunteers in helping to solves and reduces the cases of enjo-kosai. In order to solved this cases, care is taken not to ostracized the girls but instead give them assistance and advice to steer them away from enjo-kosai. Well, although many efforts had putting in by many parties to solve this immoral problem, but that has not stopped some high social status person from being arrested for their involvement with enjo kosai, for example government official, monkz, company executives or even teacher.
Enjo-kosai is started at japan, but then it began to spread to other East Asian nation in the late 1990s via media, like Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong. Enjo-kosai will later on become a bad culture worldwide if no efficient solution been taken to solve it. It’s not only about prostitute, but about the moral problems in our society.
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