While most single
women would bed SMAP heartthrob Takuya Kimura for nothing
- and at least one would actually pay for the privilege -
itソスd cost convicted sex criminal and former Osaka Gov. Knock
Yokoyama 5 billion yen for some nooky with one lawmaker's
lass, according to a Spa! poll on how much women would
charge for their sexual services.
Women from all
walks of life - office workers, high school girls, junior
college students, Diet members' secretaries, cabaret club
showgirls and imminent Tokyo University grads - set a price
on their heads, and myriad other services, which ranged from
accommodating a lecherous lover who wants it when they don't,
to being petted all night by a 70-year-old company chairman.
But while guys
can take heart that the women were prepared to open up on
a subject that Spa! says has long been taboo, they
might not be as happy to know that a bit of slap and tickle
with - or merely even a peep at - the average Akiko is going
to set them back a hefty fee.
"We wouldn't
do that for any amount, " a group of OLs - office ladies -
initially say in unison when asked how much it'd cost for
them to strip naked in public. When pushed for a price, they
relented, but charges usually ran into eight figures.
"I probably couldn't
stay in Japan any more, so I'd need enough to enjoy a quiet
life overseas ... say, 500 million yen," says Yuko, one of
the OLs.
Students at junior
colleges were even more pricey, though they were a little
more conciliatory when it came to sleeping with a teacher
for credits.
"If it's for
credits, it wouldn't be bad to do it for free," says Satomi,
to which Yumi replies, "He'd have to wear a rubber and do
it from behind so I didn't have to look at his face."
Spa! says
that fourth-year students at the prestigious Tokyo University
set realistic prices for their wares, reflecting the calculated
self-analysis that helped them pass the grueling test to get
into the nation's top tertiary institution.
"From here on
in, I'm going to make any amount of money by myself, so if
it's only something like posing nude in a magazine, about
100,000 yen would be fine by me," says science major Noriko.
Belying their
stereotypical image among many Japanese men as nymphomaniacs,
nurses' charges resembled the typically bloated bills made
out for medical care in the United States. There were exceptions,
though.
"As long as he
asked if it was all right to cuddle me, I'd let him do it.
As long as it didn't feel obscene and didn't last for long,
he could do it for free," nurse Rumi says when asked how she'd
feel about an elderly patient feeling her up. Her attitude
changes, though, when it comes to what she'd expect from a
doctor acting like a gynecologist. That is, a man who pokes
around "down there," for enjoyment rather than for work.
"He'd have to
buy me a one-room apartment in [swank] Aoyama, " Rumi says.
Secretaries for
Diet members set lofty prices, one saying it'd cost 3 billion
yen to strip in front of others, just as much to show her
face in a nude magazine pictorial, a billion to wear a mask
while nude in public and 5 billion to "knock" Knock. But the
story changed when it came to the matter of sleeping with
wealthy - but elderly - members of the Diet.
"For Ton-chan
(septuagenarian former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama),
I'd only charge 500,000 yen, " one says with a laugh.
Mayumi, a 17-year-old
high school student, says she wouldn't charge her boyfriend
for sex even if he called her up, demanded she go over to
his place, then ordered her to leave as soon as they'd finished
the deed.
"As long as there's
love, it'd be OK, " Mayumi says.
Showgirls who
strut their stuff at cabaret clubs were more financially accessible
than most of their other counterparts. Nowhere was that more
evident than in their attitude toward celebrities.
"To make it more
romantic, I'd get him to pay out 420 yen for a bottle of tea
from the local convenience store and a packet of cigarettes,
then beg him to do it to me," says Moe. But Chie, also a cabaret
club worker, perhaps best summed up the attitude toward sex
of most of the women who took part in the poll.
"Be it Takuya
Kimura, or Knock, or one of my customers. I don't care who
it is, but unless I liked someone, I'd never do it with them.
(By Ryann Connell, Staff Writer)
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