wide-spreading and popular after-school activity of its young female students. An increasing number of Japanese schoolgirls are soliciting their bodies for entertainment and extra "pocket" money in a society that is setting extremely high prices for them. Enjo kosai, which translates as "subsidized socializing" or "patronage" or simply "prostitution," is no longer a rare secret on the streets of Japan (Schreiber 84-85). There exist numerous outlets that are propagating the idea and helping teenage girls to
Having examined the effects of ijime, this paper will now seek to explore the hypothesised link between ijime and enjo-kōsai. The reasons for the sararīmen’s participation in enjo-kōsai are complex, multi-layered and we propose that the persisting effects of ijime is an underlying factor. Ijime reinforces societal expectations such as gender roles, which erode personal identity. Enjo-kōsai then serves as an anonymous outlet for the sararīmen to escape from these societal expectations which denies them
obsessed with young girls, has such a grip on the male imagination that a whole industry has sprung up around it. As states, “ Adult men have sex with adolescent girls because they do not have the confidence with real women. On the other hand, Enjo kōsai or compensated dating is known as prostitution of young teenage girls. These teenage girls sell their school uniforms and sell themselves to older men to buy designer clothes, but they do this for money in general. This is one of the fetishes that
Have you ever heard the word ‘Enjo Kosai’? It means compensated dating, which is defined as men give money or luxury to attract women for companionship, some especially for sex. In 2008, an appalling new shocks all the Hong Kong people. Wong Ka-mui, a secondary student who did compensated dating, was killed and dismembered (Lo, 2008). This tragedy raised the concern of public to teenagers compensated dating, and citizens started to comprehend the severity of the issue. Why juveniles have to betray
with compensated dating (CD), was killed by one of her clients(杜法祖,2013). The murder immediately evokes a strong repercussion and the society started to pay attention to compensated dating issue. Compensated dating is a term derived from Japanese (enjo-kosai), originally refers to girls promising to date men; It may consist dating activities such as having dinner and watching movies; Sex is not necessary involved in the process, and girls would have received material comforts in return (Li, 2013).