Producing <i>iyashi</i>: Healing and labor in Tokyo's sex industry

Koch, Gabriele

doi:10.1111/amet.12385

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“…15. See Koch (2016a) for a discussion of the emotional and affective aspects of the erotic encounter between sex worker and customer.…”

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Twenty-Four Ways to Have Sex within the Law

Koch

2021

Journal of Legal Anthropology

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This article argues that how sex appears in the law shapes what erotic pleasure is in a commercial context, and indirectly produces sex workers’ ideas about the moral stakes of engaging in certain acts. Although Japan’s anti-prostitution law was intended to eliminate commercial sex, the state’s mid-century attempt to define a proscribed site of sexual pleasure centered on intercourse instead led to the proliferation of erotic services in a diversified marketplace. The efforts of cisheteronormative sex industry businesses to navigate the actual conditions of the law’s enforcement have in turn made intercourse a distinctive site of concern for many sex workers, who regard it as the basis of an imagined moral hierarchy within the industry and as representing the inability of their workplaces to protect them.

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“…15. See Koch (2016a) for a discussion of the emotional and affective aspects of the erotic encounter between sex worker and customer.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Twenty-Four Ways to Have Sex within the Law

Koch

2021

Journal of Legal Anthropology

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“…With husbands as wage earners and wives as homemakers, they were “complementarily incompetent” (Alexy , 97) or “codependent” (Borovoy , 14). Hence most spouses felt a sense of obligation to the relationship rather than a romantic feeling toward each other (Borovoy , 20–21; Koch , 704). A survey conducted in 1998 by the Asahi Shimbun , a leading national newspaper, revealed that the most popular image of marriage among women of this generation was that of nintai (patience), while for men, it was sekinin (responsibility) (Tokuhiro , 19).…”

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Postwork intimacy

Shakuto

2019

American Ethnologist

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Marriage among senior citizens is often characterized by an increasing appeal to romantic love and companionship. Japanese retired men in Malaysia tried to transform their marital relations from unions based on a strict division of labor to bonds formed out of a romantic partnership. But the new marital intimacy had hidden costs for wives, as the gendered hierarchy continued to constitute the basic terms of what were considered valuable activities in their overseas retirement. Companionate relationships do not simply erase the previously meaningful hierarchy or gender roles. The forms and expressions of gendered hierarchy also shift as dependency and power may be re‐created in nonfinancial forms. The liberal rhetoric celebrated in the ideals of companionate marriage often masks the reproduction of these regulatory forms. [intimacy, gender, transnational retirement, companionate marriage, active aging, Malaysia, Japan]

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“…Indeed, not all recurring words fit the main themes. For instance, in 2016, authors used care (6) to index varying topics, from rituals of elderly care in Thailand (Aulino ), to kinship ideology in domestic violence counseling in India (Kowalski ), to sex work in Japan (G. Koch ), although with labor and precarity among its keywords, the latter article does fit the economy and neoliberalism cluster. Likewise, media (7 in 2016; 4 in 2017) refers to mass media as well as digital and popular media in very different contexts, indexing topics that may or may not fit the main themes (Ball and Nozawa ; Dent ; Fisher ; Gray ; Holmes 2016; Jusionyte ; N. Evans ; Shipley ; Stankiewicz ).…”

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Keywords and key words in AE

Sastramidjaja

2019

American Ethnologist

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The keywords and titles of articles published in American Ethnologist from 2016 to 2019 show a striking intersection of anthropological scholarship and world‐event trends. Tables and word clouds generated from recurring words expose the centrality of critical events, which appears to support recent contentions about a “crisis‐chasing” mode in anthropology today. But it conceals the multivocality of authors’ engagement with current events, while the idiosyncratic words that fill most of the keyword lists and titles in AE disrupt any generalization about anthropology's primary concerns. Therefore, aggregated key words cannot be taken at face value as signposts of relevance in anthropological scholarship. Yet those isolated words are increasingly influential in an era of digitized publishing, which compels scholars to adapt keywords to algorithmic logics of recognition. [keywords, aggregation, algorithm, relevance, anthropology, American Ethnologist]

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Producing iyashi: Healing and labor in Tokyo's sex industry

Cited by 14 publications

References 27 publications

Twenty-Four Ways to Have Sex within the Law

Twenty-Four Ways to Have Sex within the Law

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