In Japan, at the beginning of the 20th century, Otama, a geisha, and a rich young woman writing under the name Kosan agreed to have sex with over 1000 men each. Otama had her entire body tattooed with a memento of each of her lovers.
At the very bottom of the Japanese prostitute hierarchy was the so-called "match girl." She stood in the back lanes of cities with a box of matches. Her work consisted of lighting a match, and, for the duration of the flame, raising her skirt and showing her client her possessions.
In Japan, 340 years of Yoshiwara glory ended when a law was passed against prostitution in 1956.
