This term is made up of two parts:
Enjo =
support/
help somebody
kosai =
association/
dating
Most of the
schoolgirls who do this will
vehemently protest that it is
not prostitution, however I fail to see the
difference. Older men "
buy"
sex from young girls. I actually think this is probably worse than most prostitution because it involves
young school girls and much older
men. Most of the
girls themselves think of it as a "
victimless crime", they are getting nice things in return for sex and they don't believe that they are
hurting anyone. However the number of
violent enjo kosai related incidents are increasing and with more and more young girls
voluntarily going off alone with older men, it doesn't look like it will
decrease any time soon.
This issue is examined in the
live action movie
Love & Pop, which was directed by
Hideaki Anno of
Evangelion fame.