Alternative noraebangs are a shadowy decadent underbelly of South Korean society where soju and an hour of sex with a prostitute go hand in hand; both commodities can be bought cheaply and enjoyed frequently. In a country where one out of every two men is reported to have paid money to have sex, prostitution is no rarity. In an online forum, screen-captured above, an anonymous user wrote about his experience at a massage shop. S dollars].
In South Korea, bamboo groves often refer to places for confessions, open to anyone but guaranteeing anonymity. I was so shocked at a recent kiss-room interviewβ¦. A female employer interviewed me, and told me to go handle a customer as a trialβ¦.
It turned out, the customer was the real employer, and the female employer was an agassi [a sex worker]β¦. Pose like her.
On the page, candid stories such as this are told by anonymous contributors on Google Doc, offering a glimpse into the lives of sex workers in South Korea, in their own words.
There are newcomers as young as sixteen to veteran sex workers with decades of experience; there are heartwarming confessions and angry tantrums. How can you be a sex worker and a human being at the same time? They touch my thighs and say the ajeossis would like me because I have fair skin.
