Goodness this seems so interesting in terms of swapping gender/sex roles. In a way it highlights how dehumanising some aspects of historic Japan were when we see the men behind the brothel bars, as if caged animals, this time hoarded together for women's desire for children, as opposed to women being caged for men's lust. Very underrated manga, but seriously photographs of the old prostitution houses in Japan with the bars are so haunting to see, what a miserable life for these women, guess too you could include the whole geisha industry a precursor to todays "hostesses" yet ever so glamorised rather than viewed as sex work that children were often forced into.
Goodness this seems so interesting in terms of swapping gender/sex roles. In a way it highlights how dehumanising some aspects of historic Japan were when we see the men behind the brothel bars, as if caged animals, this time hoarded together for women's desire for children, as opposed to women being caged for men's lust. Very underrated manga, but seriously photographs of the old prostitution houses in Japan with the bars are so haunting to see, what a miserable life for these women, guess too you could include the whole geisha industry a precursor to todays "hostesses" yet ever so glamorised rather than viewed as sex work that children were often forced into.