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Episode 9 - The Beast with a Human Face

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What Is an Escort?

Hosts are paid by the bar to sit with japanese business men and make their drinks. They are not expected to sleep with them. An escort is still, it's not guaranteed that you're sleeping together. So men pay to have a drink and talk to girls who way out of their league. Essentially, girls with blond hair and blue eyes are a real commodity. I've seen the hostess industry described as modern gashe which makes a lot of sense. But i think again, like there's a lot of resentment from the japanese society towards the western world for feticizing and romanticizing what gasheoh ansalulia has become.

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