Geisha and Stripping/Prostitution

Geisha are female Japanese entertainers who play music, sing, act, dance, and even offer sexual services. In the Japanese culture when the geisha culture was at its rise, men were not constrained to being faithful to their wives and used geisha women to fulfill their sexual fantasies. However during this time, geisha women were also imprisoned for selling sex. In order to be a geisha woman there are training methods. However in today's time, geisha women are seen as prostitutes by non-Japanese, however in reality they do not take part in sexual acts. Instead they flirt and entertain their clients. Men are said to amused by the possibility of what could happen; their own illusions and fantasies with these women.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIdgqWPdsA0

Feelings? Thoughts?
Is this different from strippers? What about prostitution?
If so, how? why?

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Comments:
How is this different from prostitution?
Aren't Geisha's respected in society?
Maiko girls are respected because they are virgins.

Do you think it is acceptable to compare Geisha women to prostitutes and strippers?

To strippers yes, prostitutes no.

Geisha means a "person of the arts"; Providing male entertainment

Geisha, the way they dress and held themselves are how they please a man although they are not taking anything off their motives are still to please a man.

Do Geisha's get paid?
Some do some don't.

Everything a Geisha does is very sexualized. How they put on their make up, and tie their robes all have meaning.
Why do most strippers strip?
for quick money.

It may not be moral for some but it's someone's choice to dance/strip or not.

Some people just enjoy to do it.

What's worse my daughter coming to me saying they she's pregnant or stripping?

I wouldn't tell my parents that I was stripping. That's the worse thing to deal with.

"Prostitution is not the world's oldest profession it's the world's oldest oppression"

You can't compare prostitution to stripping it's not the same context.