![]() “But we didn’t want viewers to go away thinking these guys are being victimized. | ROB GILHOOLY A legal business with a history Sure, there’s a willful holding back of information by owners, but there is also an almost willful ignorance on the part of the urisen.”Ī sign outside a gay bar in the Shinjuku Ni-chome district of Tokyo. The urisen (rent boy) industry dates back to Japan’s growth years of the 1960s and ’70s, though its roots are thought to be found in Edo Period Japan (1603 -1868), when bisexuality was commonplace and male concubines found favor even with shoguns. ![]() It continues to exist today thanks to a loophole in Japan’s Anti-Prostitution Law, which mentions nothing about paid sex between men.
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