Comfort women in twentieth-century Asia
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SummaryThe concept of profiting off of women’s bodies has been around since commerce began. Different cultures have built up different ideologies to justify this act, whether it’s for spiritual purposes, economic hardship, privilege of the wealthy or just dominance over females in general. While prostitution for these reasons and more has existed throughout time and culture, a different form of sexual business exchange developed in Asia during the course of the mid-twentieth century. Comfort women, as they were called, originated around foreign military bases during wartime in places around Southeast Asia. The idea of a comfort woman was supposedly different from a prostitute; they were called on to provide a superficial relationship with soldiers, catering to the need of affection and service that a wife would provide, such as cleaning or boosting the ego. However, what actually occurred between customers and these women was quite different and usually traumatic. The result of comfort women during this time in Southeast Asia spawned an entire economy of female service-oriented business to foreigners in the postwar period that is still around today.
Table of Contents
- Tracing the origins of comfort women.
- Korea and comfort women.
- Talking a woman into being a comfort woman rather than a street-based prostitute.
- The horrors and abuse these women had to endure during their time in clubs.
- The comfort women of the inter-war periods.
- Changing perspectives on women.
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