Prostitution is more rampant in Japan than other Asian countries?

Question:

ive heard that.
is that true?

Answer:

"rampant" is such a loaded word. I prefer "flourishing."

Well in Japan, Prostitutes do not stand on the side of the road looking for johns. In America, this is almost always homeless women who have been brutally assaulted before or are sick with some disease like HIV.
In other words, prostitution, like drugs, has been pushed to the edge of society, where it's the opposite of a respectable life.
Japan has shortcuts and a legitimate adult entertainment industry where forms of prostitution, providing they do not involved "the whole nine yards," for lack of a better word, are legal. I won't go into detail because google can teach you all about it.

It's still not a very respectable job for women, but for example, hostesses, who get payed to chat with guys at bars and mix their drinks for them, and basically flirt, listen to their whining, or make them happy (through conversation/singing, etc. like geisha)--this can be a respectable job for an older lady who is witty, intelligent beautiful, and has a good understanding of male psychology. Lots of rich guys like this kind of entertainment, which is not just sex. Sometimes there may be sexual relations, but most of the times it is simply flirting, and drinking.

There are more sexual in nature, like escort services as well, and they are dangerous for the girls, and not at all respectable, and yet lots and lots of them are around. There are hundreds of companies in each city that lists their girls online and you can call them an have them delivered to you like a pizza. Yech...I heard on a busy day she had 8 or 9 "house calls."Yech... Multiple that by 365....yech...

Prostitution is not like Thailand. It's different. Japan is kind of an acceptance of man's nature, and like pachinko, which is a watered down version of gambling, the adult industry in japan is a watered down version of the real thing.