Six of the hostesses and a male customer of the "sexual cabaret club" Impulse
were arrested last month for indecent exposure after the workers allegedly
labored while entirely nude and the patron exposed his genitals.
Those alleged acts aren't the only indecency that appears to have gone on at
Impulse.
"As soon as you enter the club, a hostess will give you a hot towel that she
has already used to swipe her private parts. You can start fondling the
hostesses' breasts as soon as you sit down, but that's nothing. You immediately
get a drink, but it's a hostess's urine served on the rocks. They also serve
tidbits sprinkled with cuttings of the workers' pubic hair," the employee of an
adult entertainment introduction service tells Shukan Jitsuwa. "They also had a
service where the ice served in drinks is first inserted into the hostess's
private parts. They just kept on getting wilder and wilder and I think they
went too far in the end."
Impulse strictly forbid the media from covering it, but word of the club's
existence spread quickly and it was among the most popular establishments in
Minami. Some say the arrests at Impulse signal the start of a clean-up of the
entertainment district.
"That place was warned plenty of times in the past for going too far," a writer
on the sex industry says. "I knew there'd eventually be arrests there some
day."
Others defend Impulse, though.
"Sure, it stretched the limits, but it never really went beyond them. It didn't
provide any sexual services that resulted in ejaculation and if there was any
nudity going on, it was never anything more than a quick flash," the operator
of a call girl service says. "Even its most raunchy stuff wasn't that serious.
I think the arrests have been made to send a message to others."
Reporters covering the Osaka Prefectural Police beat certainly think so.
"Some people are saying the tough line cops are taking on adult businesses in
Minami will only go on until the end of this year. But I think they're wrong. I
think this crackdown is going to keep on going for ages," a hack covering the
Osaka police beat tells Shukan Jitsuwa. "And the reason why I feel that is the
cops working on Minami now are the same ones who carried out the massive
clean-up a couple of years ago of the Kabukicho district in Tokyo."
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