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Abstract
In the 1990's, some students started engaging in high school prostitution, so-called enjokosai, which is translated as “compensated dating” in English. They are from the middle class, and are not poverty stricken. “Compensated dating” includes both the young and older generations. We see the intersections of two generations in these transactions. The term, enjokosai differentiates high school prostitution from other types of prostitution. The question is raised Who compensates for whom? Though young Japanese today are said to possess different societal and materialistic views from their parents and elders, developing an entirely unique culture of values and beliefs from traditional thinking, I suggest that there must be some reasons for their transformation. This thesis “explains” the suggested differences between young Japanese and older Japanese in regard to gender relations and social changes and examines identity politics in the case of “compensated dating” among female high school prostitutes and their customers and as a way to investigate the generation gaps and their changing attitudes toward sexuality, gender roles, and gender relations in Japanese society. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
