panese military referred to the women as "comfort women". Women of several East Asian ethnicities were involved, as well as some Dutch women in Indonesia (Chou, 2002).
"Comfort women", as the term is generally understood, are women forced by occupying military forces to act as prostitutes for the benefit of the soldiers of the occupying military force (Cho, 2004). Within the context of this definition, it is immaterial whether the day-to-day functioning of the comfort house operation is under the direct administration of the occupying military force or whether this management function is contracted out by the occupying military force to local entities.
"Prostitution" is defined legally as an act of promiscuous sexual intercourse involving payment by one party to the act to the other party involved in the act. Legal definitions vary according to jurisdiction in relation to the specific behaviors that constitute an act of sexual intercourse. Prostitution once was defined only in the context of a woman accepting payment for
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