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Originally Posted by RealJames
Hosting for men and women is quite different. Here are things that they have in common though.
I'll give information based on what I've seen in my friends who have done it.
It is a gateway into the sex industry, not slowly, and not smoothly.
It's an easy way to alienate your real friends and end up very lonely.
(Japanese people, more so than most, care about who they associate with.)
Your "friendships" become very artificial.
It's a sad life, in the long run.
If you think you have what it takes to do it, and get out of it before things go sour, you are special.
It's demoralizing and degrading, which breaks willpower and most can't escape the lifestyle.
The reasons mentioned before regarding visas, your home, etc are all very good points too!
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I think the link Dogsbody posted is the most accurate in my observations.
Being a hostess is not like being a heroin addict. It is not a downward spiral into doom and gloom, unless you want it to be. Many hostesses are college girls looking for a little extra money. For a lot of young women it is a quick way to make some easy money, and to meet people, including a potential husband.
For some women the club becomes their social center, but that is usually if they didn't have many friends otherwise.
Hostess clubs are considered part of "mizu shoubai" or "water industry" in reference to the water mixed with whiskey that is usually the drink of choice. It is not the same as the sex industry, and I think to say hostess bars a quick intro into the sex trades is like saying beer is a quick intro into crystal meth addiction. The VAST majority of hostesses will never be even scouted by porn scouts. Hostess bars cost money, and scouts pick up women off the streets, not in hostess bars.
Hostess bars are not places frequented by perverts and degenerates. I often went to hostess bars with colleagues and friends. We went because they are places where you can get superior service and a guaranteed lively conversation. Single men with poor social skills often go because they know there will be someone there to drink with them (often it ends up including other single men living alone who frequent the bar).