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Originally Posted by princessmarisa
As far as I am aware the whole area is called water play, or wet play, something similar.
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Are you talking about Mizu-shoubai? [水商売, The "water trade"]
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Originally Posted by princessmarisa
I will find my sources later, but I remember reading that full on prostitution is harder to find and quite rare, but most hostess bars will have back rooms for massages and such.
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I have been in plenty of hostess bars, and is the OPPOSITE of how they run their businesses. By being flirtatious and cute the hostesses can keep the customers coming back again and again. The whole point is, once she has sex with her customer the mystery is gone, and chances are he will not want to spend any more money on her. Hostess bars capitalize on a man's ego and desire to score.
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The places that do prostitution tend to mainly have girls who emigrated from other parts of Asia, sometimes working illegally. The higher up hostess bars and less-seedy massages are mainly Japanese girls and at the top of the food chain are the tall/blonde western beauties who often don't do anything seedy unless it involves a specially arranged private date and will cost you an absolute fortune in time and money. I believe they are called dohan.
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A club where illegal SE Asian women are employed as prostitutes would be considered for bottom dwellers. 99% of hostess bars in Japan are staffed by Japanese women, and no prostitution is involved.
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It was mainly salarymen I saw going into hostess bars and other places covered by the telltale plastic hangdown sheets of half naked anime girls..or places with profile style photos of girls stuck outside.
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Those probably weren't hostess bars, but may have been massage places. Here a lighter form of prostitution takes place, and
in general foreign men are not welcome.
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Not sure about strip-clubs in the western sense. Not sure that is all that well known in Japan.
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I have never seen one in real life, butI have seen them on TV, but it is more of a cabaret type show than one girl dancing to Warrent's "Cherry Pie".