TOKYO (TR) – “I honestly didn’t think I’d get so addicted to it.”
Those are the phrases of a 20-year-old feminine school pupil who sells her physique at a soapland bathhouse. Most of the two million yen she earns monthly is spent on that habit, which is host golf equipment.
She makes an attempt to elucidate her habit to a reporter for Fuji TV data program Mezamashi 8 (Aug. 9). However, as with most issues associated to habit she struggles to offer a commonsense rationalization.
“It was so much fun”
As night time descends on Kabukicho — Japan’s primary leisure district in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward — neon lights flood the streets as many ladies wait to be purchased. The actuality is that lots of them are promoting their our bodies (just like the aforementioned school pupil) resulting from money owed at host golf equipment.
The feminine school pupil visits host golf equipment in Kabukicho three or 4 instances a month. On at the present time, she guides the digicam crew across the host membership district in Kabukicho.
She first visited a number membership when she was 18 years previous. It all began with an informal encounter with pals. But when she visited, she noticed the glittering inside. As effectively, many hosts listened to her tales. It was like a special world to her.
“It was so much fun,” she says. She was fully captivated by the hosts on her first go to and commenced visiting frequently. “I honestly didn’t think I’d get so addicted to it,” she goes on.
She says that she has greater than 50 enterprise playing cards of the hosts she’s met to date.
To her, hosts are “people you can talk to about anything, like friends.” Sometimes they’ll kindly give recommendation, and generally they’ll snicker with you over foolish tales.
Furthermore, in contrast to idols, hosts are folks you may contact ceaselessly. As she stored in contact with them, she grew to become much more addicted.
“Cried every day”
At first, she labored in a woman’s bar to earn cash to spend at a number membership. However, the quantity she spent steadily elevated, which meant that the revenue from the women’ bar was not sufficient.
So she began working at a soapland. Unlike a ladies’ bar, it includes sexual companies, as in actual intercourse.
“When I first decided to sell my body, I cried every day,” she says. “I believed, why me, for this host? I might abruptly come to my senses and assume, ‘Why am I doing this for this person?’”
Currently, she works at a soapland 5-6 days a week, earning about 2 million yen a month. She says that she works at a soapland whenever she has free time. She has sex with 7-8 people a day.
When she told her host that she had started working at a soapland, he replied, “I see. Well, let’s do our greatest any longer.”
It appeared like a really chilly response to her dedication to promote her physique, however she says that “selling your body for a host” is so commonplace in Kabukicho.
“Your clothes are cute”
To attempt to clarify why she sells her physique for a number, she mentions that she has had a sense of being in comparison with her older sister since childhood.
Although her household acquired alongside effectively, she had no confidence in herself as a result of her older sister was at all times the one to be praised. Further, she says that she has a very sturdy need to be acknowledged by others.
For her, even a easy remark from a number like “Your clothes are cute” or “Your makeup has changed” can fill her coronary heart.
And the phrases and actions of the host, who doesn’t deny her however affirms every thing, fulfills her want for recognition.
Since she began going to host golf equipment, two issues have modified: her sense of cash and her love pursuits.
Sometimes spends over 1 million yen at a single go to to a number membership. As effectively, she will not see abnormal males round her as love pursuits after spending prolonged intervals with hosts who at all times maintain their look.
“A relationship where we can be together”
In December 2023, the state of affairs modified dramatically across the host membership in Kabukicho that she frequents.
In response to a sequence of troubles at host golf equipment over the compensation of enormous money owed, the managers of Kabukicho’s host golf equipment introduced at a liaison assembly with the ward that they’d fully abolish credit score by clients from April 2024.
The abolition of credit score made it tough for her to go to host golf equipment. This was as a result of she must put together your entire quantity prematurely.
The reporter for the community requested: “Is a host club worth the 1 million yen a month?”
“It feels like I’m buying entertainment for 1 million yen, so when I think about it, it’s true that it’s not worth it,” she says. “I could buy luxury brands and I think that would be better for me…but more than that, I think the time I spend with the hosts is someone I probably wouldn’t have met otherwise.”
Where is the happiness in promoting your physique to spend tens of millions of yen on a number?
“I want to be able to keep in touch with him even after he quits being a host,” she explains, “and have a relationship where we can be together. I don’t think we’ll get married, but I’d like to stay on good terms with him.”