The Stars & Stripes has an article published that details how some elderly women in South Korea turn to prostitution to supplement their incomes due to the lack of a robust Social Security like pension system:
Elderly people sit in the shade at Tapgol park in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 15, 2015. The park, mostly a place for relaxation for elderly residents in Seoul, had also been a site where elderly prostitutes solicit customers for sex in nearby motels. AHN YOUNG-JOON/AP
As about a dozen elderly men loiter in a small plaza near a cinema, mostly chatting or watching people pass by, several deeply wrinkled women stroll among them, trolling for customers willing to pay for sex in nearby motels.
“Hey, do you want to go with me? I can treat you really well,” a 76-year-old woman with a limp says as a reporter approaches her on a recent sunny afternoon.
Despite a police crackdown this spring that resulted in 33 arrests, including an 84-year-old woman, the so-called “Bacchus ladies” can still be seen near the Piccadilly theater in Seoul’s Jongno neighborhood. The nickname comes from the popular energy drink that many of the prostitutes have traditionally sold.
The middle-aged and elderly women and their customers — both pitied and scorned in this conservative country — provide a look at the dark side of South Korea’s rapid economic rise and erosion of traditional parent-child roles. As a growing, ultra-competitive middle class has become preoccupied with getting ahead, many elderly and poor people have been left to fend for themselves. [Stars & Stripes]
Finally, the rag called Stars & Stripes does some useful reporting.
Now I finally know where to get my freak on for cheap!
Like you didn’t know already!
“Like you didn’t know already!”
I really didn’t know.
All these years, I have been paying off the guy who runs the nursing home.