SANITIZED SEX: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945—1952

摘要

Based on a discourse analysis of historical records such as memoranda, reports, petitions, veterans' narratives, memoirs of servicemen, and visuals, Robert Kramm highlights three major themes of security, health, and morality in the regulation of sexuality, prostitution, and venereal diseases during the American occupation period injapan (1945-1952). Kramm contends that a study of the various attempts to sanitize sexuality' sheds lights on the power dynamics between the occupier and the occupied and the hierarchies of race, class, and gender during the occupation period. In doing so, Kramm argues that the American "neocolonial rule" and imperialism in Japan during the occupation period catalyzed the empire building, dominance, and hegemony of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.