Geisha, means person of the arts or artist, are traditional Japanese artist-entertainers. In Japan they use the word Geiko to refer such those persons.

In the 18th and 19th centuries Geisha could be seen everywhere and it still exists until today but a lot dwindling.

The misunderstand belief that Geisha are the prostitutes are totally wrong Geisha are not prostitutes, this mistaken belief has been started from Japanese prostitutes who wish to co-optation the prestige of the Geisha image and some of the westerner inaccurate depicted them.

Some Geisha may choose to engage in sexual relations with her patrons but she is not forced to do so.

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so are they prostitutes?

Geisha sounds like gae (dog in Kor.) chat (dog in Fr.) in A-chat.

^ how is that relevant, younghee

duh

you understand what my question meant, correct? cuz you didnt answer it

oh younghee..

Nope actually they are not but some of them try to.... may be have to sell body for any reason..

I just watched the trailer for the movie Geisha. Listening to Yeow's and Zhang's asiadoll, suzie wong, me love you long time, accents pisses me off to no end.

haha, so true. i think gong li's english sounds a bit better.

they were speakin english

It's not just the imperfect English. The accent is a throwback to the exotification, asian-woman-as-sex-slave lore. Absolutely disgusting. "Music is the ARTT of conversation." I wouldn't be surprised if their characters start talking in fortune cookie parables and allegories involving dragons and turtles. Disgusting.

ps: Everyone should bear in mind that the book was written by a white guy.

i wouldnt say they are..

from wat i read....they're more of an entertainer than a prostitute if u know wat i mean...they dance and sing for the guestes...they're artist

cant wait til the movie comes out

the book 'memoir of a geisha' was good