Yakuza 7 and Prostitution

In the very start of the game in Yokohama you are cleaning the illegal prostitute den and the protest group comes up to argue with Hamako.

I found the entire scene to be really gross and completely ignorant of actual sex work. Granted I am not Japanese so this is mostly culture conflict, that being said the bizarre defense RGG has done of prostitution through the series is bizarre.

Akiyama tries to force a woman into whoring herself out to get away from an abusive husband. Hamako appeals to the desperation and Ichiban argues that children aren't ashamed of their parents who are prostitutes. And yet when you break it down it comes into greater condemnation.

The prostitutes were Yakuza owned many of these women carried debts or had debts forced onto them. Ichiban grew up in this atmosphere and he ended up a Yakuza who spent 18 years in prison and then shot. Which would not have occurred if the prostitutes were not part of a sex ring in Kamurocho.

I dislike how a serious issue like illegal prostitution is hand waved as totally acceptable and that the women totally consented to the practice when the series has given us multiple characters that didn't and were trafficked. The Grey area of sex trafficking is just an excuse for evil to appear vague.