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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (132223)	3/16/2017 11:27:49 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217573

i tried to reconcile my predilection for reflexology to my abhorrence for living organism exploitation, and i succeeded, without really trying. however i failed to reconcile korean comfort women and asia comfort women and global comfort women trafficking with 'it is just prostitution, is okay, because there is not a piece of paper proving explicit state sponsorship', and i failed, because i did not even bother to try.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (132223)	3/17/2017 10:17:55 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 217573

I agree that there is tremendous barbarity during Wartime.. The Japanese Imperial military CERTAINLY had a systemic effort to use forced labor, many of whom never saw home again, being worked to death.. These men (and women) were used to further the military goals of the Japanese war effort.. And I would not argue that there wasn't rape or incidences of sex slavery by the Japanese.. or abuses against POWs.. They did, in fact, occur.. But the people I know who have been researching the issue of "comfort women" had been unable to discover any evidence of a systemic effort to kidnap Korean women and then force them into unpaid sex slavery.. Deceiving the women? Sure. And in may cases, including the ones that TJ presented, the women admit that they were lured into leaving their homes by Korean men, only to find out that the work they were to perform was prostitution. From a "business" perspective, the "house masters" were Japanese.. And they charged the soldiers for the use of the women under their charge.. Now, the interrogation report I presented says that the women were paid for sex, but had to give a substantial cut to the house master.. This is how its STILL done in various brothels to this day.. That's not to say that some of the house masters didn't keep all the money for themselves, but they certainly didn't offer their women for free.. Why would they? Their job was to provide sexual "services" to the Japanese soldiers as a "contractor".. The Japanese army officers would have considered it to be humiliating for them to actually have to be in charge of, or manage, a sex slavery service.. So, they outsourced it. And they had to obtain the women to meet the demand by any means they could, which often involved getting local men who spoke the language, to lure these women into these situations. These officers, as has been seen in any number of wars, were only concerned about maintaining the discipline and fighting ability of their soldiers. And having "camp followers" providing sexual services were a means to prevent actual rape and pillage by their soldiers among the conquered locals. Now, if we want to define sex slavery as "indentured servitude", I would readily agree that it existed. That the Japanese organized a program where they permitted "entrepreneurial" brothel managers to service their men, YES.. But to claim that the Japanese Army put house masters on their payroll and financed the whole operation of the "comfort women" program is illogical.. Why would they, when they could get their soldiers to voluntarily spend their money on "comfort women", and most likely a cut of the proceeds would find itself back in the hands of the military commanders in charge (protection money paid by the house master to the military commander)? There is no doubt that there were efforts to exploit women for sexual service by all sides during the war (and we see it to this day, even in peacetime).. It's brutal, degrading, and a reality.. But I don't see evidence where the Japanese military would take scarce resources and manpower to organize, finance, and manage a "comfort woman" program that kidnapped and enslaved hundreds of thousands of women.. They had other things they were concerned about, and with very few resources available to wage their war. Btw.. with regard to ISIS, I'm referring to Yazidi and Christian women who were non-Muslim.. These are the women that ISIS believes they are justified in enslaving as sex slaves. Muslim women must be married and a whole other set of rules apply to them.. Hawk