Sounds like the job of a cocktail waitress. I think they only still work in casinos.
Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:10:41 -0400 >From: "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> >Subject: [tips] Give Me That Old Time Profession >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> >Cc: "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> > >An article in today's NY Times reports on a growing profession >among young Japanese women: hostessing. What is hostessing? >Quoting the article: > >|The women who pour drinks in Japan's sleek gentlemen's clubs >|were once shunned because their duties were considered immodest: >|lavishing adoring (albeit nonsexual) attention on men for a hefty fee. >See: >http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/business/global/28hostess.html?hp=&pagewanted=all > > >In some ways, being a hostess is, I believe, comparable to the >services that geisha's provided in the past but being a geisha involved >extensive training, an apprenticeship, and development of some >skill in entertainment (e.g., playing a musical instrument, singing, >dancing, etc.). It seems that being a hostess only requires one >to be a "pretty young thing", be able to make believe that one really >cares about the man who is currently her client, and to hold one's >liquor. Sex is typically not part of the package (unlike the "Girlfriend >Experience" in the U.S., a subject of a recent Stephen Sonderbergh >film, which means that a sex worker/prostitute provides "relationship >services" in addition to "sex services"). Prostitution in Japan is >illegal but it only became illegal in the late 1950s (see Kenji Mizoguichi's >film "Street of Shame" about the women who worked in one house >of prostitution in the Tokyo redlight district; it is said that Mizoguichi's >film helped to get the anti-prostitution law passed). Thus, the types >of services that women could provide were rather rigidly defined >though not always obvious to westerners. > >The more basic issue involved with hostessing is summarized in the >following quote: > >|Atsushi Miura, an expert on the issue, says hostessing will be popular >|among Japanese women as long as other well-paying jobs are scarce. >| >|"Some people still say hostesses are wasting their life away," he said. >|"But rather than criticizing them, Japan should create more jobs for >|young women." > >-Mike Palij >New York University >[email protected] > > > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
