During WWII, prostitutes—not geisha, but actual prostitutes—marketed themselves to American GI's. This became a problematic impression of what a geisha's life was supposedly like.
Then came along the 1997 New York Times bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden. Hey, he interviewed a real-life geisha, he has a M.A. in Japanese history. Should clear things up, right?
Wrong.
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