is a geisha an actual prostitute?
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"Geisha originated as skilled professional entertainers; originally most were male. While various ranks of professional courtesans provided sexual entertainment, geisha used their skills in traditional Japanese arts, music, dance, and storytelling. Town (machi) geisha worked freelance at parties outside the various pleasure quarters, while quarter (kuruwa) geisha entertained at parties within the pleasure quarters. As the artistic skills of high-ranking courtesans declined, the skills of the geisha, who were both male and female, became more in demand.\n\nMale geisha (sometimes known as hōkan) gradually began to decline, and by 1800 female geisha (originally known as onna geisha, literally woman geisha) outnumbered them by three to one, and the term "geisha" came to be understood as referring to skilled female entertainers, as it does today.\n\nTraditionally, geisha began their training at a very young age. Some girls were sold to geisha houses as children, and began their training in various traditional arts almost immediately.\n\nDuring their childhood, geisha sometimes worked first as maids or assistants to experienced geisha, and then as apprentice geisha (maiko) during their training. This tradition of training exists as well in other traditions in Japan, when a student lives at the home, starting out doing housework and assisting the master, and eventually himself or herself becoming a master.\n\nThere remains some confusion, particularly outside Japan, about the nature of the geisha profession. This issue has been complicated by Japanese prostitutes, particularly at onsen, who wish to co-opt the prestige of the geisha image by marketing themselves to tourists (both Japanese and non-Japanese) as "geisha," and by inaccurate depictions of geisha in Western popular culture, such as the novel and film Memoirs of a Geisha.\n\nTraditionally, geisha must remain unmarried (or retire upon their marriage), though it is not uncommon for them to have children. While geisha engagements often include flirting and even suggestive banter (albeit codified in traditional ways), they never involve sexual activity, and a geisha is not paid for sex, though an individual geisha may choose to engage in sexual relations with one of her patrons outside the context of her role as a geisha. And because such relations are related to the ability of a customer to pay for a geisha's traditional services, the argument can be made that this is just a convoluted form of prostitution.\n\nIt was also traditional for established geisha to take a danna, or patron. A danna was typically a wealthy man, sometimes married, who had the means to support the very large expenses related to a geisha's traditional training and other considerable costs. This sometimes occurs today as well.\n\nAlthough a geisha and her danna may be in love, the affair is customarily contingent upon the danna's ability to offer her financial support. The traditional conventions and values within such a relationship are very intricate and not well understood, even by many Japanese."\n\nOver all, they can have sex with anyone they want, but their virginity used to be auctioned off. Besides that, there's no sexual contact involved.
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HUH? \n\nIF a prostitute quit waking the streets, went to school for paralegal, and got hired somewhere as a paralegal....\n\nWhat difference does it make what she did before school? I'd applaud her for putting the effort in to get off the streets, before I'd question the legality of whatever you are talking about....
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You don't have to be Japanese to know this. A Geisha is a woman who has undergone a lot of training to be elegant, graceful, and to provide company to men. It is not solely sexual as some people think. That is a misunderstanding that dates back to the days of Pearl Harbor where the American men in Japan who were seeking prostitutes came upon the Geisha women who could no longer make a good living because of the war and so gave themselves willingly for a price. The Americans miss-pronounced their name as "geesha".\n The real Geisha would be hired for get-togethers where the men would have no other company than themselves if these women were not there. They made pleasant conversations and made the men feel comfortable about themselves.\nIf you want to know more just watch Memoirs Of A Geisha.
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Makes perfect sense to me. It's a drunken sailor soliciting a prostitute named Joanna. I've been on Answers too long.
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I'm not aware of any presently, however there has been at least one non-japanese geisha:  Liza Dalby.  In the 1970s this white american graduate student of anthropology went to Kyoto to study the geisha life.  The link below is to her book.
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Hooking is not a legal term so its hard to say. Legally although it varies from state to state The term "prostitution" generally means the commission by a person of any natural or unnatural sexual act, deviate sexual intercourse, or sexual contact for monetary consideration or other thing of value. \n\nGiven this definition, the only women who are not Prostitutes(including your MBA and the average Housewife) are those who have sex strictly for their own enjoyment and not to recieve anything in value.
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I'm wondering if you are for real or not????\nIn any case If your wife is bed bound because of her weight how can she be prostituting, as most men who use prostitutes like to see what they are getting first.
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Seems like he may be a good prostitute, he always did suck.\n\nPeace.
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i just don't understand why is it so hard for people to accept that she was a prostitute .... that actually makes her grow bigger in my eyes - for having the guts to leave her bad way of life for something better - God
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This question is easily answered......\n\nTheir called prostitutes!
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A whore is any woman that debases herself for profit.  i.e. prostitute, porno star, stripper, movie star, anyone that uses the image of herself in an inapropriate way, or lets herself be used for unatural purposes.
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Yes. The prostitute is trying to make a living, the money-hungry woman is merely spoiled.
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a whore is someone who sells her stuff, a sl*t gives it away, why all the labels, I must be a sl*t, I give my stuff away. to just about anyone that I like that wants it. and it do feel good. gurls have the right to satisfy their desires as much as guys do. quit living in the 50's
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I would like to clear up some errors found in the above answers. Mary Magdalene is explicitly named in the canonical scriptures as demon possessed, but NOT a prostitute. The woman who was going to be stoned for being caught in the act of adultery was not named in the Bible (John 8:1-11). \n\nThere is a Mary (of "Mary and Martha") - she was the sinner who washed Jesus' feet with her tears and dried his feet with her hair. She also anointed Jesus with ointment (beginning in Luke 7:37). John 11:2 identifies this woman as Mary of Bethany. She had a sister named Martha -- they were both sisters of Lazarus. People often mistake this Mary for Mary Magdalene. This isn't true, either.\n\nMary Magdalene was one of several women who was healed of evil spirits and infirmities as Jesus toured Galilee for the fourth time. She had seven demons cast out of her Luke 8:2). Once she was healed, she became a follower of Jesus Christ.
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A male/female who has sex for money.
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Who cares? She's a fake whore!!
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i think prostitution is overrated, if people wanna have sex and get paid way not. a women can have sex with many men and get nothing is considered a whore, but if the men throw her a few dollars, she is a prostitute, why? why give it up for free. my take is if a guy friend of mine want's to have sex with me and my light bill is due, and i don't have it, hey, why not, get the bill paid and feel good while doing it