Seducing tourists for about 3,000 yen for 30 minutes, astride a motorcycle… What is “Honda Girl,” Vietnam’s “underground specialty”?

The “Honda Girl” who disappeared from ……

As I stood in a dimly lit back alley street, a scooter approached and stopped in front of me.

Sin Chao.”

Hello” in Vietnamese was spoken by the stranger driving the scooter. She was sitting on the seat of the scooter, her mask zipped down to her chin, and she was smiling fondly. She taps the back seat with one hand, as if to say, “Get in here.

How old are you?

I asked in English, to which he immediately replied in English, “Thirty years old.

This is Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. It is one of the fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia. In July of this year, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) released a report stating that Vietnam’s GDP (gross domestic product) growth rate for 2012 is expected to be the highest in Southeast Asia. In fact, when the second quarter GDP year-on-year comparisons for major Southeast Asian countries were released the following August, Vietnam had the largest growth rate.

In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, which is growing at such a rapid pace, there is something that has suddenly disappeared in recent years. They are a group of women known as the “Honda Girls.

In Vietnam, where motorcycles are big, all motorcycles, whether made by Yamaha or Suzuki, are collectively called “Hondas. The “Honda girls” are women who ride their Hondas to pander to customers and engage in prostitution. For a long time, they were the specialty of Ho Chi Minh City’s sex industry. However, the number of street prostitutes has been drastically reduced due to the crackdown by the authorities, encouraged by the rapid economic growth in recent years. It was said that “Honda Girls have completely disappeared from Ho Chi Minh City recently, partly due to the COVID-19 crisis” (a writer on adult entertainment).

However, in a certain district of Ho Chi Minh City. However, in a certain district of Ho Chi Minh City, behind a university campus, “Honda Girls are still active,” says a Vietnamese man who works as an interpreter. He led me down a back alley, and the Honda Girl I mentioned at the beginning of this article approached me.

She was wearing a black one-piece dress that emphasized her bust and a white helmet. She has thick eyebrows and large eyes, and wears a good amount of makeup. She introduced herself as “Lynn.

Get in quick.”

I couldn’t hear her over the noise, but she probably said it in Vietnamese. I asked her how much it would cost and how long it would take, and she replied 500,000 dong for 30 minutes. That is about 3,000 Japanese yen.

When you get on the motorcycle, they take you to a hostel where you can have sexual intercourse.

Lynn never ceases to smile. However, I politely declined the invitation, wanting to see other Honda girls. Then her expression suddenly clouded over and, as if with a “tsk” on her tongue, she rode off into the darkness with a roar of her engine.

It was about three minutes later that another motorcycle approached us again. The driver was a mature woman who appeared to be well over 60 years old. A young woman with her hair up was sitting on the back seat. The older woman spoke to me in Vietnamese, but I could tell by her gestures that she was telling me to get in the very back.

I asked the younger woman about her age and price, but she gave me a scowling look and did not answer anything. Perhaps she did not understand English. The young woman, with a fake smile on her face, said, “Just get in the car,” and tapped on the seat behind her.