Escort Service Advertisement (2004-08-16)
Men who look for an escort service in Tokyo need not look further than their mailboxes. Fliers for various escort businesses are regularly dropped nonchalantly into our mail slot and land on the floor of the entrance. While most will openly advertise their business boasting young and beautiful call girls; others mask the nature of their affairs using masseuses as their cover. But you would have to be hopelessly stupid to not know what kind of service these masseuses give.
It is quite amazing fliers for prostitutes are allowed to be dropped
into mailboxes so indiscriminately. What happens when a child
picks one up before his parents do? What will dad tell his son
when the latter asks him about the picture of a topless woman posing
seductively on the flyer? It's more than your basic birds
and bees business for dad to explain.
I guess parents can be vigilant in clearing their mailboxes of adult
materials if they don't want their kids to see them, but you can't
clear out every phone booth that has adult entertainment advertisement
in it. We've come across some phone booths in Shibuya (
) that have booklets containing pages upon
pages of advertisement for hookers. They are accessible to anyone
tall enough to reach the handset of the phone. You can say that
in Tokyo there is another advantage of giving children their own
cell phones.
Just let me know if you're interested in looking at the booklets I got in the phone booth, I'll put them in the mail for you.
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