Araki acted as both a participant and a fly-on-the-wall, photographing the sex workers, the clients, the neon-lit streets, and the claustrophobic interiors of these establishments. The book is a time capsule of a specific subculture in Tokyo before the economic bubble burst and before the internet changed the sex industry forever.
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