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Soapland (ソープランド, sōpurando^?) is a Japanese word for a type of brothel where men (hereinafter called "client") can be bathed with female prostitutes (hereinafter called "companion")(there are a few for female clientele).^[1] Soaplands are special in the idea that companion's work room has two areas in it. One is a small area with a small couch and bed, and the other is a large shower room that has a large bath and floor for an inflatable mattress. Image File history File links Acap. ... A brothel, also known as a bordello or whorehouse, is an establishment specifically dedicated to prostitution, providing the prostitutes a place to meet and to have sex with the clients. ... Children bathing in a small metal bathtub Bathing is the immersion of the body in fluid, usually water, or an aqueous solution. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ...

Location

There are various kinds of soaplands all over Japan. Unlike Bangkok city, there are few independently located soaplands and they usually form complex with various numbers of soaplands. Famous complexes include Susukino in Sapporo, Kabukicho in Tokyo, Kawasaki, Kanazuen in Gifu, Ogoto in Shiga and Fukuhara in Kobe but there are so many other places especially in spa towns. The Susukino Crossing at night with the Nikka logo on the Susukino Building Susukino ) is a red-light district located in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. ... Sapporo redirects here. ... One of the entrances to Kabukicho. ... For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation). ... Kawasaki can refer to: Kawasaki, Kanagawa - a Japanese city located between Tokyo and Yokohama Kawasaki Heavy Industries - a Japanese company producing transport-related equipment including motorcycles Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha - is a Japanese transport company whose main area of operations is international shipping Kawasaki, Fukuoka - a Japanese town in Fukuoka Prefecture... Gifu is the name of several places: Gifu Prefecture, (Japan) Gifu City, (Japan) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Shiga Prefecture (滋賀県 Shiga-ken) is part of the Kinki region on Honshu island, Japan. ... Kobe ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent port city in Japan with a population of about 1. ...

Price

Price for each session at soapland differs as much as any other form of human services. At soapland, the price depends on various factors including location, time, length of session and most importantly quality of companions. It is usually more expensive in big and rich cities and night time (it must be said that there are usually daytime discounts.). The most expensive places can cost more than JPY100,000.- (US$800.-) per session.

Common procedure

Firstly, client and companion get naked and companion washes client's body including his genital. There is a special chair for this purpose called "sukebe isu" which means erotic chair and with "U"-shape top which makes genital hang loosely and easy to wash. Usually the client has to wash his teeth for hygienic purpose.

After warming his body in the bath, client then lies on the air mattress while the female employee covers herself with liquid lotion for lubricating purpose. Then she slides her body up and down client's body and brushing his body with her pubic hair. This is called "awa odori" which means a bubble dance and its form of eroticism is considered to be of the highest quality and thus soapland costs the most among various types of Japanese brothels. Usually oral sex is also performed on the mat and then if the man so chooses they can engage in sex on the mat. If not, when this "mat play" is over they rinse off and go to the bed to have sexual intercourse. Lotion-Play is a popular form of erotica in Japan involving the use of copious amounts of sex lubricant which in the Japanese language is referred to as lotion ). Typically it involves sexual intercourse in a pool or bath filled with lotion, or lotion being poured over the participants during...

origin

Soaplands were originally called toruko-buro, a phonetic translation of Turkish bath. It has started so to disguise as simple form of bath where women only wash men's body when explicit prostitution became illegal in Japan. Turkish scholar, Nusret Sancakli, set off on a newspaper campaign to denounce Japan's girls working in Turkish baths ,^[2] and the word "soapland" was the winning entry in a nationwide contest to rename the brothels.^[3] This article is about the Turkish bath establishment. ...

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Notes

1. ^ Boye Lafayette De Mente, Sex and the Japanese: The Sensual Side of Japan, (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2006), 58.
2. ^ Peter Constantine, Japan's Sex Trade: A Journey Through Japan's Erotic Subcultures, (Tokyo: Yenbooks, 1993), 37–8.
3. ^ Ibid.

Further reading

• Bornoff, Nicholas. Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage, and Sex in Contemporary Japan. New York: Pocket Books, 1991. ISBN 0671742655.
• Connell, Ryann. "Weekly hacks expose the dirty secrets of squeaky-clean soaplands", Mainichi Shimbun, May 18, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-05-19. 
• Constantine, Peter. Japan's Sex Trade: A Journey Through Japan's Erotic Subcultures. Tokyo: Yenbooks, 1993. ISBN 4900737003.