The reality of illegal business at “God’s Esthetic Salon,” whose owner was arrested… “Back-option” solicitation techniques.
Suddenly sleeping together… and other such excessively liberal treatment
On February 17, 2014, a joint task force of Kanagawa and Chiba prefectural police arrested 15 men and women, including a 35-year-old manager of a men’s esthetic salon called “God’s Esthetic,” on suspicion of violating the Entertainment Establishments Control Law (operating in prohibited areas). The arrest of the well-known men’s esthetic salon sent shockwaves through the industry and beyond.
The term “business in prohibited areas,” as used in this case, refers to the provision of sexual services in areas where the operation of storefront sexually oriented establishments is prohibited. Men’s esthetic salons are not “sex establishments” and therefore cannot provide sexual services. It was rumored by some that “God’s Esthetic” was offering extreme services called “backdoor options.
Some of the stores are said to have been revived under different names, but the “God’s Esthetic” group is said to be practically out of business due to the arrest of the manager.
The author interviewed Mr. G, a former regular customer of “God’s Esthetic,” who frequented one of the stores along the Chuo Line, where he was repeatedly offered “backdoor sexual favors” by the therapists.
Based on Mr. G’s testimony and recorded data, we will introduce the specifics of how the therapists at “Kami no Eeste” lured customers into the “back-room sex” program.
S (21), a typical “back-op therapist,” was tall and slender. She was tall and slender, and her treatment was quite rough, Mr. G testified.
When she came back from the shower, she suddenly slept with me. She asked me if I wanted a massage. When I said I didn’t mind either way, she said, ‘Well, I won’t do it today.
(Laughs.)” He said that he did not receive a massage, which is a service that is supposed to be a part of men’s esthetic salons.
After about 30 minutes of making out, he suddenly asked me, ‘What do you want to cum with? After about 30 minutes, she suddenly asked me, ‘What do you want to cum with? I said, ‘How about with a rubber? He replied, “Well, give it to me later. We agreed on an unspoken amount, and I paid her 10,000 yen later.
What is interesting is the reason why she works at a men’s esthetic salon. She told Mr. G that she was doing it for the “promotion activity” of an underground idol.
She told Mr. G that she sometimes spends about 2 million yen a month. When I gave her the money for backdoor sex, she said, ‘I can go see them with this.
S’s behavior was similar to that of the “stand-up dancer” in Okubo Park who pays tribute to a host.
Frankly, I’m blowing it.”
It is rare to find a therapist who, like S, swings into illegal services without giving a treatment. The majority of the therapists lead the client naturally from a normal massage to a back op, and the one who did so most naturally was A (20), recalls G. “She was cheerful and polite, and her treatment was well done.
She was “cheerful and courteous, and her treatment was neat. But towards the end of the massage, he would ask, ‘How do you want it?’ But at the end of the massage, he would ask me, ‘What do you want to do? It’s not a straight solicitation, but for the customer it can only mean one thing.
A says, ‘Can I beg you?’ and took out a rubber, and started the backdoor sex. The fee was 10,000 yen. After the play, she was very polite.
She told me that she was studying to be a nurse and was in the middle of her first year of college. She always worked from 23:00 until dawn at the men’s esthetic salon, so she was a complete night owl. Even so, she did everything from cleaning to changing towels, so I think she is a serious girl at heart.
Mr. G has a recording of a 21-year-old university student therapist, Y. He said he smelled the odor of alcohol the moment he entered the therapist’s room.
He said, “She had been drinking the day before, and she reeked of alcohol.
The impression of the therapist was very different from the picture on the panel, and her massage was not very good. About 30 minutes after entering the room, Y told Mr. G, “I’ll pay you 20,000 for the performance and 1,000 for the oral.
20,000 for the actual work and 10,000 for the oral.
She was quite aggressive in her offer, and a voice recording in Mr. G’s possession contained her admitting , “To be honest, I’m blowing it.
Y also talked about her own past. Like S, she became addicted to underground idols when she was in high school and spent more than 10 million yen on “guessing activities. He spent more than 10 million yen on “guess activities.” Most of the money he spent on “guess activities” was earned through aid-seeking and night work.
Unspoken Rules
Of course, not all of the therapists at “God’s Esthetic” offered the “backdoor” option; according to Mr. G, a popular therapist at one store was an ace at 5,000 yen per appointment alone, but she insisted that she would “never have any mucous membrane contact,” and did not offer any “backdoor” option at all.
The interview with Mr. G revealed a polarization between the popular therapists who make repeat customers without any sexual intercourse and the middle-class therapists who make money through backdoor sexual intercourse. Except for the extreme case of Y mentioned above, the common rule among all the back-op therapists was the unspoken rule that the therapist does not make the offer to the client.
According to my firsthand experience, nearly half of the therapists agreed to back-op, but only a few of them would tell me the price themselves. Most of them would ask, ‘How do you want to end it?’ or ‘What do you want to do (after this)?’ and then they would make the customer tell them.
This may have been a “last line” to maintain the appearance of being a “massage parlor” in the way that “God’s Esthetic” was said to be “a parlor with the most extreme service that could be exposed at any time.
The men’s esthetic industry has seen a rapid increase in the number of stores over the past few years. However, with the enactment of the revised Entertainment Establishments Control Law last June, penalties were tightened, with fines of up to 300 million yen.
When the revised law was enacted, there were whispers in and outside the industry that most men’s esthetic salons would go out of business, but many have remained in business.
However, many of them are still in business. And even now, similar whispers may be heard in the private rooms of men’s esthetic salons across the country.
“What do you want to do? What do you want to end up with?”
Not all of the darkness in this industry has yet come out into the open.
FRIDAY Digital’s YouTube page has published the “reasons why I do men’s esthetics,” as told by therapist Y, as well as audio of her offering customers underhanded options.
