Syphilis Infections Increase Dramatically! Soapland Owner Speaks of Surprising Effects “Caused by COVID-19 Crisis and Foreign Customers”.

Syphilis is rapidly increasing in Japan. What on earth is happening in the world of sex in Japan? Based on the voices of people working in the sex industry, we would like to consider the following questions [ Part 1: The Surprising Background of the Dramatic Increase in the Number of Syphilis Infections].

Why has the number of new syphilis cases increased so rapidly in 2022? A man who manages three soapland establishments in the Tokyo metropolitan area said, “The cause is the new strain of corona.

The cause is the new corona. The new strain of corona has changed the way the sex industry works from the very roots up until now. The service of the stores, the demands of the customers, the quality of the girls, everything. The situation became unthinkable a while ago. If you think about it, all of these changes have contributed to an increase in syphilis.

What changes have occurred in the sex industry as a result of the spread of the new corona infection?

One trend since the spring of 2020 has been the increased rate of sex workers engaging in private prostitution.

When the state of emergency was declared, storefront soaplands closed store en masse. Because soaplands operate legally and are closely monitored, they are reluctant to go against the “higher-ups.

Background of the girls’ initiation into private prostitution

However, the girls working in the stores are paid on a full commission basis. If the store is closed, they will be deprived of their income. However, they cannot ask the government for support because they are in a profession that they cannot openly talk about, and they have not been paying taxes properly.

So, the women tried to survive on their own. They contacted regular customers who had been coming to their establishments and met with them privately outside their establishments, or used matching apps on their smart phones. Women who had previously worked in the limited stores of soaplands began to engage in prostitution outside, as if they were released into the wild.

Furthermore, a major change has also occurred at the soaplands. Most of the establishments reopened for business by the summer of 2020, but the quality of the clientele changed dramatically from that time. The number of people indifferent to infectious diseases increased.

During the COVID-19 crisis, the people who visited soaplands were those who did not even care about sexually transmitted diseases, let alone the new COVID-19 crisis. People who are afraid of getting sick will stop coming to play, and the percentage of those who do not will increase. The store will then have to adapt its services to the latter group of people.

The manager of the restaurant stated, “Customers will stop caring so much about their illnesses.

The manager of the shop said, “Customers don’t care so much about diseases anymore. So the demand for no-skin (no condom) has increased dramatically. Maybe it was because they got used to no-skin private prostitution.

In any case, since only no-skin stores were attracting customers, the stores that had not been doing so had no choice but to switch to no-skin. Without noskin, the stores would not be able to do business. This is a natural situation, but sexually transmitted diseases will spread.