A woman who was forced, coerced, or deceived into providing sexual services to military personnel, especially referring to the system of sexual slavery operated by the Imperial Japanese military during World War II.
A euphemistic term used in historical and political contexts to refer to victims of wartime sexual exploitation.
2.
globaleuphemisticinformal
A woman who provides comfort or companionship, often implying sexual services; used as a euphemism for a prostitute, mistress, or paid companion.
Examples:
EN: You already are a comfort woman.
ES: ¡Ya eres una mantenida!
EN: It is not good to keep you as a comfort woman for so long.
ES: No es bueno que te quedes de mantenida tanto.
EN: A 'comfort woman' has diarrhea.
ES: Una "mujer de alivio" tiene diarreas.
EN: You are a comfort woman, aren't you?
ES: Estás aquí para eso, ¿no?
EN: She's a comfort woman for the spoonheads, isn't she? Mm-hmm.
ES: Es una de esas que confortan a los cabeza-cuchara, ¿ o no?
EN: Those who repent shall go into exile, to work as comfort woman!
ES: ¡Los que se arrepientan deben ser castigados con el exilio, para trabajar como mujer de compañía!
EN: You be his comfort woman
ES: Tú eres una mujer confortable.
EN: A comfort woman?
ES: ¿Una mujer confortable?
EN: They cut off the foot of the woman, and made her their comfort woman.
ES: Luego le cortaron los pies a la mujer, y la convirtieron en su mujer de compañía.
EN: She'll most likely become a comfort woman for a soldier in the battlefield, or sold as a ginyeo.
ES: Probablemente se convertirá en una mujer de consuelo para un soldado en el campo de batalla, o vendida como un ginyeo.
EN: Japanese comfort woman.
ES: Mujer de compañía japonesa.
EN: I only found out recently that she was forced to become a comfort woman.
ES: Hace poco descubrí que se vio obligada a convertirse en una mujer de solaz.
EN: It never occurred to me that Yun-i... had been forced to become a comfort woman.
ES: Nunca se me ocurrió que Yun-i... se había visto obligada a convertirse en una mujer de solaz.
EN: Even when one woman, who was forced to be a comfort woman, found the courage to tell the world what happened,
ES: Incluso cuando una mujer, que se vio obligada a ser una mujer de solaz, encontró el coraje para contarle al mundo lo que pasó,