Airdate: Stacey Dooley Investigates: Young Sex For Sale in Japan

An upcoming episode of UK’s Stacey Dooley Investigates: Young Sex For Sale in Japan on ABC2 is likely to be contentious, given it covers children in legal eroticism.

Do not attempt this at home….

In a country obsessed by cute images of doe eyed characters, Stacey starts her investigation at one of the hundreds of legal ‘JK Cafes’, where girls as young as fifteen put on their school uniforms and are paid to entertain men, sometimes three times their age. 

Stacey listens to middle aged men unashamedly revealing why they like talking to young schoolgirls about life, relationships, and sex. She finds out that for some vulnerable schoolgirls, it can be a gateway into the more sexually exploitative sex industry. 

Although child pornography is now illegal, the phenomenon of Chaku Ero is booming. It means ‘erotically clothed’ and children of any age, some as young as six, can be legally photographed in suggestive poses. And in Japanese Manga comics Stacey finds sexually explicit images of toddlers being sexually abused by adults. She meets the police who claim to be tackling some of these issues and the activists campaigning for a change in attitude throughout Japanese society.

9:30pm Monday August 21 on ABC2.