Bargirl
[2] A bargirl should not be confused with a bartender, a conventional type of hostess who serves drinks in a bar but is not expected to entertain customers individually or to dance for them.
Most bar girls, frequently in desperate need for money, engaged in survival sex out of economic necessity.
[citation needed] Prostitution in China was eliminated during the period of Mao Zedong's leadership, but it subsequently returned.
[13] In postwar Japan, bar girls were to be found in the jazz clubs which provided a place for US servicemen and prostitutes to meet.
[14] In Japan an "entertainers visa" was introduced in 1981 allowing migrant Filipina women to work in Japanese nightclubs.
The work included dancing in strip shows, socialising with male guests, and in some cases prostitution.
"Juicy bars" near the gates of United States military bases provide prostitutes for US soldiers in South Korea.
Many work as bargirls for a few years to help their families, allowing them to pay off their debts and improve their living conditions.
[citation needed] During the Vietnam War, a system of military-endorsed prostitution allowed bar girls to provide sexual services to US servicemen.
[33] In the United States, B-girls (an abbreviation of bar girls) were women who were paid to converse with male patrons and encourage them to buy them both drinks.
[34] The drinks were often watered down or non-alcoholic to minimize the effects of the alcohol on the B-girls and reduce the cost to the bar.
[40] In one 1962 case, nightclub owners suspected of having ties to a Chicago crime syndicate were brought before the Senate Rackets Committee.
The Boston Globe reported that "one of [the syndicate's] rackets, according to testimony, is the operation of cheap nightclubs which use B-girls to solicit watered-down drinks at high prices from customers, or even engage in prostitution with them.
"[41] It was once common for modestly dressed B-girls to pose as secretaries who had stopped at the bar for a drink on their way home from work.
The male customer, under the impression that he had found a "date" for the evening, would buy her one expensive drink after another, only to be jilted afterwards.
The report suggested that police attempts to suppress the activity by arresting bar girls had rarely been successful.
[42] In 2014, city officials in Kenner, Louisiana (a suburb of New Orleans), where the practice is illegal, replaced the word "B-girl" with "B-drinker" in their liquor laws to avoid gender discrimination.
[39] Bar girls in strip clubs in the United States often entertain on stage as "exotic dancers", attracting male customers through the use of nudity and suggestive postures.
