That video is seriously disturbing. Hostess cafés. I had heard of it before, but didn't really think about it, I guess. You pay money and the girls sit down and talk to you like they were your friends or girlfriends. You can have them dress up as your favorite anime characters or in French-maid outfits. It is freakier than prostitution in my view; in prostitution you get some physical satisfaction out of it, and that is something real. This is a fake stroking of your emotions.
Interestingly, I watched a documentary called Wh0re's Glory about prostitution, in three parts: the first in Thailand, the second in Bangladesh, the third in Mexico. (No wonder they put the Thai part first, since they were the only girls who were attractive. The Bangladeshis and Mexicans looked like crap.) The Thai girls, after a long day of working as prostitutes (in a "fish bowl" where they sit behind glass and the customers pick them by their number), went to have some fun at ... a host café. Where they paid to have guys sit down by a table and talk to them, and also dance. So the cute female prostitutes bought themselves some cute male prostitutes. And you thought they felt like victims, eh?
Back to the Japanese documentary in the link:
Cuddle cafés! That's even worse than the hostess thing. Small rooms with teddy bears and stars and cute pillows. A place for adult men to pretend they are with girls who are children, it seems. I guess that comes from having zero percent game, and being repressed emotionally: they can't handle women who act like adults. (You see that in Japanese porn too, and in "dating sims" where the girl characters blush and stutter like kids. Compare Japanese porn with Western porn, where the women are randy and eager to have sex.)
The rooms have a list of activities. Pet the girl's head. The girl cleans your ear with a q-tip. (A mother fetish there, it seems.) Etc. The part at 08:02 seriously creeped me out. Seriously, I almost jumped in my seat.
Like the guy says at that point: "Nothing is weirder than this. This is profoundly, profoundly disturbing."
Oh, Japan. If only you hadn't let Roosevelt gaud you into attacking Pearl Harbor, by freezing your oil imports and confiscating Japanese bank accounts and assets in the U.S., to strangle your economy. If you had simply attacked the European colonies in Asia, with the Chinese Kuomintang as your allies instead of your enemies as had been offered, you would never have lost your samurai culture, transferred from the feudal families to the army. You would never have all this sh!t. What's it gonna take to wake you up again, another war? You beat the Russian fleet in 1905, go do something like that again. Maybe you will come to your senses. Steamrolling over the car and stereo markets obviously wasn't enough, so these are some deeply ingrained problems you have there.
