Hostessing in Japan?

Question

Why are there so many young women interested in hostessing? I mean, what's so attractive about been treated like a slave? is it money, an unloving family?. Why would a modern woman want to degrade herself?. Doesn't make any sense to me..could anyone explain this to me? thanx in advance.

Answer 1

For them, it's a job, no matter what..to earn living and support self or families, not everyone is lucky to have a better paying job and opportunities, the salary looks attractive, they feel attractive and not many hostess feel degraded.
So how far it will goes, then it's their choice. to stay or to move on...
Not all the case that they are treated like a slave, but to feel more attractive and have fun than doing cleaning or low income job as Mimi mentioned.

Answer 2

Let's see-if you work at an English conversation school you make about 250000 a month to make conversation with people. If you are a hostess you can make about 500000 a month to make conversation with people.

Besides, how many jobs are so much better? Have you ever been an ESL teacher and been told to your face that are, "not interesting enough" because you actually try to teach English rather than entertain people? Have you ever worked at a call center and been told 20X a day, "I want to speak to an American" or "You don't make enough money to handle my problem, put your supervisor on NOW!". Have you ever been a flight attendant and dealt with cranky passengers , crying children and airsick people day in, day out? Have you ever been a truck driver who has to drive 16 hours straight to make the payments on his rig?

There's all different kinds of degradation in this world-IMO hostessing at a respectable club is a relatively minor one. Hostessing at a disrespectable club is a different story.

Answer 3

I do not think that most women go into hostessing because it is the dream job that they aspire to. Rather, I think it is a last resort for some women who desperately need money but have no skills or education to be employed elsewhere. Depending on how successful you are at bringing in clients, whether it be due to your physical looks or social abilities, I think you get paid accordingly. I also think that if a client really likes you, he may give you expensive gifts and tip you. There may be some women out there who love hostessing because they get paid to have fun and chat, but I don't think that is generally the case for the majority.

Answer 4

It's a newer word than "geisha," and amounts to the same thing. They wear modern clothes but more skanky, light your cigarettes, pour booze down your throat, and laugh at your jokes. It is very profitable to them too. A friend of mine took me to a hostess bar and we stayed for a while, and he dropped over 60,000 yen for the tab (that's about $520) so I know they make a ton of cash! I hated it, because I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I speak little Japanese, so it was a little uncomfortable.

Answer 5

I don't know, but I suspect Hotwheels has hit the nail on the head!

Perhaps if more foreign women knew that hostessing is considered to be part of the sex industry in Japan, and that there will be pressure on them to more or less sell there body for sex, maybe less women would do it? Or maybe more! But part of the myth of feminism is that so many modern women have been fooled into thinking that working in the sex industry is going to make them free in some weird way.

Answer 6

they make a lot of money