Why Men were Welcomed in Women Baths in Japan #Shorts

If you take a look at the old pictures of Japanese public baths, you can find men in the women’s bathing room. However, this was not a mixed bath, and the man was a professional who washed the bodies of customers, called 三助 Sansuké.

Sansuké begins his training with a few years of work, collecting firewood to heat the baths and arranging the customers' clothes and shoes. Around the second year, they would start working as a bath heater, and from the third year, they were finally able to move on to washing customers' bodies. It was hard physical work, taking more than 10 years to be called a full-fledged worker.

It is said that sansuké was quite a popular profession, and if they were favored, they sometimes received tips from customers. Us today might feel some hesitance, but in those days it was a kind of status to be washed by a professional sansuké.

However, sansuké soon disappeared due to most of them going into management, and being restricted due to some people offering sexual services. There is only one place in Japan today where a sansuké is still operating.

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[GeckyWecky]

“Sansuke was very a popular job” hmmm I wonder

[Unhingedwirelessdevice]

The real reason Sasuke left the village.

[cum_as_you_are]

I'm convinced even becoming a hobo in Japan requires 15 years of training

[jojoshoot]

I’d probably trust them more if it was that tedious to get to that position.

[Magotek]

Now I know what secret arts Sasuke was tryna learn from Orochimaru

[StefanVeenstra]

They were already into megapixels at that stage.

[Foreverchris]

For some reason the tips part sounds very sus to me

[PrashkFilms]

No matter what’s that thing in Japan it always takes decades to master 😢
Edited: thanks to 6.6 k people for agreeing with my sarcastic statement..
Love for Japan 🇯🇵 ❤️

[egyptwns_]

Leave it to the ones who couldn’t help themselves to destroy that possibility for others.

[glanwen]

Here in Finland we used to have public saunas in towns like in Japan there are the baths. In those there were washer women, that worked both in women's and men's turns washing customers. Not years of training though... Today public saunas are much fewer as apartment hauses tend to have a house sauna and people living in the building can reserve a turn, or there are built-in saunas in every apartment. Still there are few public saunas left but washer women are gone.

[BlackPatriot]

“Offered tips” I’m sure they were Shogo. I’m sure they were 😂

[KaoruMzk]

Inns in the “old west” also offered a services like that, at least from what I’ve read in some novels, but I assume it quickly devolved into prostitution and stopped altogether.

[Imaginedying]

“There’s still one in Japan”
Ferb, I know what we’re going to do today

[Gaming_Hub_UK]

Sasuke left the village to pursue his dreams

[LetsaskShogo]

If you take a look at the old pictures of Japanese public baths, you can find men in the women’s bathing room. However, this was not a mixed bath, and the man was a professional who washed the bodies of customers, called 三助 Sansuké.

Sansuké begins his training with a few years of work, collecting firewood to heat the baths and arranging the customers' clothes and shoes. Around the second year, they would start working as a bath heater, and from the third year, they were finally able to move on to washing customers' bodies. It was hard physical work, taking more than 10 years to be called a full-fledged worker.

It is said that sansuké was quite a popular profession, and if they were favored, they sometimes received tips from customers. Us today might feel some hesitance, but in those days it was a kind of status to be washed by a professional sansuké.

However, sansuké soon disappeared due to most of them going into management, and being restricted due to some people offering sexual services. There is only one place in Japan today where a sansuké is still operating.

If you’d like to learn more about Japanese traditional culture, Kyoto, and social problems in Japan, please check out my channel & subscribe!

*The content is based on personal studies and experience
There is no intention of denying other theories and cultural aspects

[TeRizzardOfOz]

That one place the next day:

*10, 000 PEOPLE ON THE WAITING LIST*

[shinoaburame]

oh wow that's some dedication to scrubbing

[giyuutomioka]

Jiraiya: he has learned from the master. I'm so proud 🤧

[Snow-Willow]

I think I'd be torn between feeling uncomfortable, and feeling like a princess.