Police vs. Prostitutes - Who are the real criminals here?

Question: What's the difference between a cop in the vice squad and a guppy?
Answer: One is a scum sucking bottom dweller and the other is a fish.


Police vs. Prostitution. The police spend our tax monies stopping prostitutes from plying their trade in a free exchange of business between two consenting adults. Is anyone hurt in this exchange? Is this is what we pay taxes for?


In Japan, we have nuclear accidents, the economy going down the crapper, unemployment, Japan's credit rating taking a hit, deflation... We have all this sh*t hitting the fan and those idiots in the government and the police are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars setting up sting operations at prostitution parlors to arrest a few people doing some business that hurts no one.


What a bunch of morons.


The oldest profession in the world and these clowns think they can stop it with police sting operations and arresting people. If you think this is a good idea, then you do deserve to be taxed to death because you are a moron too!

Rio Hamasaki and this article's gratuitous cheesecake photo. 

She poses nude & appears in porn films for money. 

Why is this not considered prostitution?

Get that? The fools in government and their idiot police squads are spending thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of our tax dollars surveying and spying on business that spend their time trying to make a buck pulling on the puds of Joe Average Japanese guy. And, if these people - that includes male or female prostitutes - jack off these customers, what damage does it do to you or me? How does it inflict harm on society?


Compare that with the damage it does to you or me by having hundreds of thousands of dollars of YOUR TAX MONEY spent on this sh*t by the tax feeders who "work" in the police force. Can't those people go out and get real jobs?


Probably not.


What a bunch of stupid jerks. Why does the average Japanese person put up with this waste of tax monies?


As always the excellent Tokyo Reporter has the story sans commentary:

In the late evening of May 31, police officers entered a bar in Tokyo’s Minami Koiwa district and discovered a hostess to be engaged in a bit more than pleasant conversation with a male customer.

Upon their entry, the completely naked 39-year-old female quickly pushed her client off of her and grabbed a towel. She then moved over to a sofa, where she sat in despair as officers ordered her to put on clothing.


I'm sure they didn't order her to put on her clothing "immediately!"

According to weekly tabloid Shukan Jitsuwa (June 23), the bar San-nen A-gumi (3年A組), possibly named after the famous TV drama series “San-nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei” (３年Ｂ組金八先生), had been under surveillance for an extended period.


Voyeurism is a crime, but not if the police do it. "...Under surveillance for an extended period"? Indeed.  

Members of the Metropolitan Police Department’s safety division and the Koiwa Police Department arrested the establishment’s owner, Hakudo Sato, 31, and four employees for violating the Anti-Prostitution Law. Perhaps most interesting was that one woman who was taken into custody came to Tokyo from Miyagi Prefecture following the devastation of the Great East Japan Earthquake.


Do these idiot police think that arresting this club's boss and four women (who are basically, most probably, unemployable in any other job) will stop prostitution in this country? Don't these clowns have any brains to think for themselves? If some woman from Sendai (that was majorly f'ed up because of the earthquake and tsunami) wants to sell her time for some cash, then who cares what she does? Is it hurting you or me?


Do these jerks in the police and government think that spending hundreds of thousands of dollars setting up a sting operation for some shitty dive prostitution parlor is going to somehow help this country with its problems? Why don't we spend this tax money on something important like enforcing the new laws on making school teachers sing the national anthem? Now there's a good use of tax dollars!


Are these idiot policemen such stupid and ill conceived drones that they cannot see that what they are doing is foolish and a waste of their time and our taxes?


What a bunch of turds!


How about this, smart guy policeman? Consider:


Some guy goes into this place of business. He pays a woman ¥4000 for whatever it is he pays for (a back massage and a few drinks). Suddenly, lightening strikes! Inexplicably, the two magically fall in love (don't tell me that its never happened to you) - and they make love (have sex). After the sex and mating process is over, they converse for a few minutes and realize for whatever reason, that they are not good partners for matrimony (don't tell me that its never happened to you) so they break up...


And those idiot police want to arrest them for,... what? Sex between two consenting adults?!  


Gosh darn! No wonder we are all f'ed up and the economy is going to hell. We have complete and total idiots running the government....

KEVIN BACON - "THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?"

Not only that, but average Joe-blow votes for these politician clowns and those politicians frequent prostitution parlors (anyone who thinks they don't is living in the past) that are not targeted for stings due to political considerations.


Average person! Bend over and take it in the ass!


"Thank you sir, may I have another!"


So, I ask you, when it comes to the police vs. the prostitutes - who do you think the real criminals are here?  

Sex Services in Japan First to Get Back to Business After Earthquake

Japan is slowly getting back to business. It's about time. When the government tells us that we shouldn't celebrate because of the March 11 disaster and that we should cancel festivals, Hanami and other drinking parties, that only serves to hurt local business and the economy.


The best thing any of us can do is to try to get our lives back to normal and get the economy going. We need to work, we need to sleep, we need to play.... I certainly need to go out drinking and enjoying life more. 


I can't imagine anyone else who doesn't need to go out and enjoy life more.


Well, hats off to the world's oldest profession. It seems that right after the Tohoku disaster,  sex- related  service industries were the first back to business. 


The excellent Tokyo Reporter has the story for us:

Even the horrifying death and devastation that struck northeastern Japan on March 11 could not suppress the human sex drive for long. Friday (June 10) reports that sex businesses were among the first to recover, many as soon as one week after the disaster.

“I was back at my job on March 18,” says Kitty-san, a 21-year-old employee of a delivery health (out-call sex service) service named Ainori in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. “From the day we reopened demand was even higher than it was before the disaster. Many customers had suffered from the catastrophe, and had even lost family members. They justified their urges, saying they ‘sought psychological relief’ or ‘wanted to be consoled.’

Gratuitous cheesecake photo

I suppose you could call it "Psychological relief" or "Consolation"....

“A lot of customers had been evacuated to temporary shelters where they couldn’t bathe, and just wanted to go to a hotel so they could get cleaned up,” Kitty continues. “One guy, who was about 35 years old, was pretty grubby. ‘I haven’t had a bath for two weeks’ he told me. He seemed so happy when I gave him a shampoo.”

So great was demand to use local hotel rooms with power and hot water, couples could even be seen queued up outside waiting their turn.

“I think our shop was the first one back in business after the quake,” says an employee of Ainori. “We couldn’t get through to the girls at first because cell phone communications had shut down. Afterwards we finally made contact. 

Prostitution and the free exchange of time and services between two consenting adults is a free market ideal and a business that's been around since the beginning of society. No amount of government legislation will ever change that. Making laws that makes these activities illegal is pure nonsense.

You cannot legislate morality.

I applaud these businesses for getting back on track early and creating jobs for people. The economy needs it.

Read more at the  Tokyo Reporter

Nuclear Engineer the Most Dangerous Job? Nope. Not Even Close

After the nuclear accident at Fukushima, people are thinking, "Surely, nuclear engineering is the most dangerous job in the world." Nope. Not even close.


Not to make light of a bad situation, but as I was inspired by the list of the Top 20 Most Dangerous Jobs in America (at the bottom of that article) where I found that working at a nuclear power plant wasn't one of the Top 20 dangerous jobs. In fact, according to Topix, being a nuclear power plant operator is so safe that it isn't even among the top 100 most dangerous jobs in America! See here. 

I was again reminded of the power of marketing in today's society and how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year to get the public to believe as God's gospel truth the things they believe. 


That so many people believe that nuclear power is such a dangerous thing, when the oil industry annually accounts for thousands of deaths from cancer and airborne pollutants (not to mention millions killed in US instigated wars for control of that oil) and that, for every one person killed by nuclear power, 4,000 die from cancers and diseases as a direct result of burning coal and the coal industry just shows a testament to the power of the big money spent by the coal and big oil industry on marketing in an attempt to get you to believe what you do.


I guess they've done a pretty good job.

It strikes me as quite curious that, in some times, people are very anti-fossils fuels. Like when they complain about the environment, pollution or even (chuckle) Man Made Global Warming... Then at other times, like after the recent earthquake and tsunami, they completely drop that kind of thinking and go whole hog against nuclear power.

How, pray tell, do westerners think they are going to support their energy guzzling lifestyles? Well, recent events show that far too many people panic and don't think... So I guess that answers my question right there, doesn't it? 


People don't think.

Of course, people complain about these things while, at the same time, they have three TV's at home - of course one is a energy sucking giant screen; they have three stereos and central heating. They live the lifestyle of constantly leaving the lights on in the house in rooms they aren't using and live a life of general energy wastefulness. They also show their hypocrisy when they pollute the environment by throwing their trash away on the streets or when they go camping or on picnics. Nor do they properly separate their refuse to help recycle their garbage.

WHAT IS THE MOST DANGEROUS JOB IN THE WORLD? READ ON!

As an aside, it has always struck me as odd how people can carry full cases of beer and food up a mountain to go camping or to a picnic, but seem incapable of carrying down consumed, much lighter, empty containers after the party is over.

But, I suppose, that's a discussion for another time.

Let me give you a caveat here as to why these things irritate me about some people. One usually doesn't like to toot one's horn (except I do every chance I get) and since no one does if for me, I have to do it myself: We have no TV at my home - haven't had one in nearly 10 years. No stereo. No central heating. Absolutely never leave the lights on in unattended rooms and are very energy conscious. We use power boxes and completely shut off the power in unused appliances so that even the built-in clocks are off when not in use... 


In fact, even though I don't believe that CO2 is a problem concerning global warming, we always close the toilet seat cover as closing the toilet seat shows good manners and proper upbringing and, from what I understand, closing the toilet seat cover, when not in use, cuts down about 45 kilograms of CO2 released into the atmosphere annually from one toilet.

Do I do these things, and teach my children to do the same, because I worry about the environment (and their manners)? Yes. It's partly that. I do have four children. I do worry that we need to keep the rivers and mountains and beaches clean. But I do these energy saving things mostly because I am an incredibly frugal person (a cheapskate) and do not believe in unnecessarily throwing money away supporting big oil and big power companies.


If I can save $10 a month on electricity and gas, that's $10 more dollars that I can invest in precious metals or save.

But, I am getting off the point of this post. The point is that working at a nuclear power plant is not even listed in the Top 20 Most Dangerous Jobs in America - it is not even in the top 100 - yet it is perceived (in a very comical way, too) as a very dangerous job.

This allows me to give you an undeniably good example of how TV has influenced the thinking of today's society immensely.

I am reminded of Homer Simpson working at Mr. Burns nuclear power plant in Springfield. 

Why am I reminded of Homer Simpson? Well, because, if America's most famous cartoon character - a guy who is loved, yet seen as a buffoon - a guy who represents Mr. Average America to people all over he world - works at a nuclear power plant, then I think that makes a strong statement. I think that is a statement  that just about anyone can agree with concerning the perceived safety of working at such a place.

Now, all I can say is that from watching the Simpson's and from examining popular trends and cultural ideas, in spite of the facts and historical record, I think anyone who watches TV would believe that nuclear power is a very dangerous thing; much more dangerous than the most dangerous jobs.

The fear of nuclear power is certainly much more glamorous and it sparks the imagination of Hollywood much more than the top 3 most dangerous jobs in the world put together: Being a fisherman, logger or farmer? Probably fun. But not as fun a Science Fiction, Spider-man, radioactive aliens from space and 1950's horror movies like "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

That Homer Simpson - who works at one of these places in a cartoon that ridicules nuclear power every episode - could win the award as the "Best American of All-Time," beating out such luminaries as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, is a testament to how people all around the world - if they thought about it rationally for a moment - would most probably agree with me.....


That Homer Simpson's way of thinking and fouled up logic is pretty indicative of the average American's way of thinking... Laugh all you want, but Homer Simpson is the average American guy.


The problem is not that Homer Simpson is a self-centered, foolish, illogical (but lovable) oaf. The problem is that there are 10 million American adult males just like him... (Too bad it seems that a huge percentage of us are not in the least lovable, excepting to our moms...)

Working at a nuclear power plant is probably not an ideal job, but it pays a hell-of-a-lot more and is much safer than many other jobs. According to PayScale, starting pay for nuclear engineers - including bonuses and profit-sharing - is between $53,104 ~ $127,398 per year. 


Not bad for a guy or girl straight out of college.


Even considering the current problems at Fukushima with current deaths still at zero (and hopefully to remain that way) compared to the 11 immediate deaths on the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and the annual U.S. Minerals Management Service report of 69 offshore deaths, 1,349 injuries, and 858 fires and explosions on offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico alone from 2001 to 2010. 

Whether you are Homer Simpson, or someone just like him, in today's America, a person could do much worse for a job than becoming a nuclear engineer. In spite of all its warts and negative publicity, the nuclear industry still compares quite favorable in safety and pay to any other form of energy.


And now, to finally answer the question as to what is the most dangerous job in the world? Even though it is not legal in many countries, the world's oldest profession is also its most dangerous. As All Most reports:

What do you think is the most dangerous job in the world? I bet it would surprise you that the most dangerous job in the world is not even legal in most U.S. states. The most dangerous job in the world is prostitution. I know what you are thinking, prostitution isn’t even a job. But the definition of a job is a regular activity performed in exchange for payment.

Prostitution is named the most dangerous job because of this stat; the murder rate for a prostitute is 204 to every 100,000!!!

Business Changes in Okinawa For the World's Oldest Profession

Hard to believe but prostitution is illegal in Japan. But, as it was explained to me once by an elder Japanese gentleman, "Yes, prostitution is illegal, but if people fall in love for 15 minutes, there's no law against that!"

Come to think of it, that makes sense. Why prostitution - which is sex between two consenting adults - is illegal - is beyond me. Victimless crimes should be wiped from the books.

But off my soapbox for now...

Check this from Tokyo Reporter. It is a story of how the girls are hitting the streets in Okinawa as the US military moves.

With the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan City on the island of Okinawa factoring in the recently held gubernatorial election, weekly tabloid Shukan Jitsuwa (Dec. 9) updates its readership on any impact that may be in store for its surrounding red-light district. During the run-up to the vote, held on Nov. 28, in which Okinawan Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima, 71, narrowly defeated 58-year-old former Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha to retain his title, the magazine explains that the ongoing crackdown on shops supplying sleaze in Ginowan's Maebara entertainment area was an issue that lurked behind the scenes. For a little background, along with the Tobita Shinchi brothel quarter in Osaka, the Maebara red-light district is known for adult-oriented clubs that specialize in quickies and feature attractive prices. Since spring, police have been cracking down on establishments in the area, also referred to as "Shinmachi." Many of the shops had been operating on an underground basis.