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The article below about Japanese host clubs caught my attention because I encountered the same phenomenon happening at a karaoke bar in Duluth, GA.
Several years ago, I visited a karaoke bar on a date and later took family for a birthday. After a few years, I returned on another date and no one was in attendance. I walked through looking for a representative and eventually a startled woman led me to a room and explained that business had changed. Apparently, the rooms were mostly being used to host large parties of Asian men. She explained very candidly that young women would entertain the men, who were mostly married, an arrangement tantamount to prostitution.
Reading the article, I now understand the business model affecting women in Japan is based on this established practice of 'hosting' men, as I encountered. The article also details how the settings for women are reminiscent of romantic manga comics.
Considering the prevalence of massage parlors and host clubs in Asian culture, the connection between manga and how the sexualized schoolgirl look has been both popularized and exploited, one can recognize how its popularity and influence has impacted American society.
As detailed in a previous blog post, I recall the female-centric dating app, Bumble, pushing notifications towards men to 'stop fetishization' Asian women, as though men are culpable for the proliferation of profiles featuring Asian women who categorize themselves as 'liberal atheists' located in 'hotel districts', cosmetically enhanced and dressed like Manga characters in the flesh.
Let us recall other such notices appearing throughout the introduction of Covid on social media including Bumble and LinkedIn, admonishing Americans to 'stop Asian hate' as BLM torched cities leading up to the election following any police encounter involving what ultimately were found to be justified shootings of black criminals (not including the world-wide campaign of 'justice' for Fentanyl Floyd). Ironically, nearly all 'hate crimes' committed against Asians are at the hands of black thugs.
One notable exception was the high-profile mass shooting at a massage parlor outside of Atlanta, GA by a white man, which was misconstrued and exploited by the media as a hate crime when in fact, the shooter was an ultra-religious patron who had a mental breakdown and shot several at the spa, including white and Hispanic victims. I later learned more about the scenario on a ride back from the Atlanta airport, as detailed in another of my entries. Strange that Atlanta doesn't put more priority on securing the Atlanta airport. Maybe it's because the politics are mixing with the wrong business, with no end to the mayhem in sight.
I guess it's unrealistic to seamlessly align so many propaganda campaigns and hoaxes amongst the corporate and pharma-sponsored media and riots including BLM and Antifa, covid lockdowns, election fraud, open borders, critical race theory, legitimization of transgender genders, LGBTQ+ and #metoo cancellation agendas, climate change mongers, January 6th hysteria, all-you-can-eat Trump indictments, and recession denial. I know I'm forgetting something. The UFO whistleblowers and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East started later in the game. What's next? Ah, the next natural progression - Black Americans aligning with Palenstine - more divide and conquer - and I must say, it's one more reason to get the hell out of the Middle East. Oh, and as expected, more cases of the dreaded sniffles.
But, I digress...
Searching the term 'fuzoku', I find many other articles detailing the exploding phenomenon of women buying men in Japan only to find themselves indebted and pulled into selling themselves in kind.
