일제 강점기 공창제에 관한 비판적 고찰

Abstract

Since the modern era, Licensed prostitution has been spreading in Europe and Japan, in which the state legalizes and manages prostitution. The formation of modern Licensed Prostitution was a decisive factor in the influence of militarization and militarism. In the name of securing military power for the colonial rule, it authorized and managed prostitution facilities in colonies or occupied territories. Furthermore, the military establishes a brothel that directly controls and manages the military. Even in the case of private brokers or custodians, the administrative role of the military brothels and comfort women was not different. The comfort women were not engaged in free will, but were ‘requisitioned’ by mobilization of the state. In other words, they were forced to be kidnapped and lured by the state to provide sex. The comfort women did not cooperate with the military by contractual relations, but as their lives became “sex slaves.” Recognition and necessary measures for the damage caused by the comfort women of the Japanese government are to recognize the national violence in the era of militarism. The Japanese government, however, still has a passive and defensive attitude regarding the comfort women military service during the Japanese colonial rule and has not even attempted to tackle the policy to solve the problem. On the other hand, Licensed Prostitution is a system of prostitution in which the state becomes a ‘pimp’. Legitimizing prostitution will only result in the spread of another illegal prostitution. In addition, it should not be allowed in terms of rationalizing the ‘comfort women’ in the battlefield.