Host Boy Central!

[Guest Kirari]

^ In one of the Kanjani8 shows they had an interview with a #1 host and he said that he had many foreign customers. Mostly are from Korea, Taiwan and he had one all the way from Australia. The host just used body language and hand signs to communicate with the customers but they all came back many times after that.

And there was the Kelly Osbourne in Japan show in which a local took Kelly to a host club. The host entertained her with Robert de Niro and mr. Bean immitations. XD Kelly said she had a real good time, and that meant a lot since the only thing she did in japan was bitching about their weird culture. But she did enjoy the host club. Those boys must be really good. So.. no problem with the language barrier, we can all just communicate through the language of love. And in the hosts' case, the language of money.

[chiyo]

they´re more like the legal lover boys who´ll make you absolutely infactuated with them and charm you in to spending all your money in their clubs on drinks. They are Le EBIL~! XD

Search on google videos for 'the great happiness space', you´ll understand.

thanks... i´ll search up the video when i get home. my college blocks all video sharing sites XD. i still wonder how a girl can spend so much money on guy (since usually it´s the other way around). but i guess i didn´t understand it yet. so they get like 12-50$ per hour and then they make money with drink costs? successful host guys must be rich =)

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Here's an interesting article that I found awhile back.

My geisha is a guy

Rhiana Ehara , Weekend Post

Published: Saturday, November 19, 2005

OSAKA - Japanese host clubs are a strange entertainment hybrid, where willowy young things fawn over well-heeled customers, flattering them and encouraging them to buy drinks at outrageous prices. What makes them different -- outlandishly so from a Western perspective -- is that the customers are predominantly young single women and the hosts are male geishas, androgynous young fellows trained in the art of separating customers from their cash.

At Club Acqua -- as at scores of host clubs throughout Japan -- a fleet of perfectly coiffed, attentive young men spill compliments over well-heeled Japanese women, most in their 20s and 30s. They light their cigarettes, pour their drinks, engage in flirtatious chitchat. They will also act as shopping companions, party dates and even provide more intimate services, if the price is right.

The process is simple: Every woman who enters Club Acqua selects a host on her first visit, with the understanding that he will receive a percentage of what she spends on alcohol. The key for the hosts, of course, is to keep the women coming back.

The clubs open after midnight and close at 9:30 a.m., around the time most Japanese are sipping their morning tea at their desks.

Seiji Houzyou, the multimillionaire owner of Club Acqua, estimates that 60% of his clients are workers in Japan's sex industry, 20% are men looking to provide a new diversion for their female friends, and the remaining 20% are "parasite singles" -- women with good jobs who live with their parents and have difficulty meeting charming men.

The hosts glide from table to table, visiting each of their clients -- but never staying long enough to upset the other clients who are waiting for them. Keeping all your women happy is obviously the most challenging aspect of hosting. It takes just one slip-up to lose a client. Forget her name, let her discover you've slept with her friend, and there goes one customer. Because Club Acqua lets clients run a tab this can be financially ruinous. The host has to pay should his client skip out.

The biggest factor in the success of these young men is not their looks but their ability to make women feel special.

Ryo Sakuya, regarded as the second-best host at Club Acqua, explains it this way. "The most important element of hosting is the smile. Once you have mastered an engaging smile and can laugh enthusiastically and authentically at appropriate moments when your client is speaking, you will be very successful." A dewy 22 year old, Ryo earns more than $500,000 a year.

But as most women will attest, pleasing women is not innate in all men. Thus, Hiroshi Toguchi, the Host Teacher, provides instruction in womencraft each morning after the club closes. Though they are exhausted, the hosts listen attentively, even taking notes, to improve their performance.

As a special incentive, club owner Houzyou displays a plastic figurine of any host who makes more than $30,000 in one month. Of the 65 hosts who work in Club Acqua, 25 have achieved plastic recognition.

At the end of a long night, the hosts look forward to sleep. But before they do, they send numerous text messages to clients, encouraging them to return.

Finally, by mid-afternoon, the male geishas are sound asleep. dreaming of riches, preparing themselves for another night of flattery and flirting.

© National Post 2005

source: canada.com

[Guest precious4e]

^ nice article lol....male geisha.....sorta true I guess

and yea that guy in the back is hilarious!

[Guest jvchou1316]

wow... this is quite the discovery

host boys are HOT.

[Guest Kirari]

trained in the art of separating customers from their cash.

LOL! XD nicely said

but 20% of the customers are men? O_O

Didn't know they had something like a host trainer/teacher as well. Wow

[Guest heartkiller]

is that makoto with the black hair

[Guest SwtMsT]

Is it always so expensive?

I would like to try it when I go to Japan in January with my nanny haha

She'd probably be up for it...

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[Guest Inconnu]

Man... what Japan will do for entertainment. Basically they are just

entertainers and wont do any sexual act right? O_O

And I actually disagree with some girls on here that says Host boys are hot.

Only a few of them are... if you actually look closely at some of the guys and

cut their hair or something, they will only look average... Thats just my opinion.

Then again, to be a host boy you dont really need to be good-looking. You just

need to know how to flirt and make a woman feel special. xPP

[Guest xfatrabbitx]

oh how naive.. lol..

sorry to burst your bubble..but they're escorts.

In america, escorts translate as prostitutes...you can sleep with them, or just have GFE (girl friend experiences)..in this case..BFE.

They work in a club though, so they're more like strippers (minus the dancing and stripping...). Yes, strippers do the drink hustle, and get paid commission on drinks. They sit there and entertain the men....

Just like these host boys do..host boys can just sit and talk, they drink A LOT of alcohol a night. They can and most likely do sleep with paying women and men. They have regular customers just like strippers do.

It may look all nice and sweet, but Host clubs are part of the sex industry.

If one of you cute lil soompi girls go over to the club and get in...you'll get approached by a host boy ( probably not your favorite cute ones cuz those ones are spending time and collecting big bucks with their regulars) who will see if he can charm (hustle) you for some money.. once he sees he cant, he'll walk away...

just saying...~

[Guest chocopocky]

ahahah, i love this pic. and the guy with the beard is HOT!!!!

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l86/ai0n...ua/ff1464f7.jpg

[Guest heartkiller]

^ thats my makoto bear right there

and not all of us are naive i know what these boys do for a living but we can still think they are cute just like anyone else

[Guest Key]

oh how naive.. lol..

sorry to burst your bubble..but they're escorts.

In america, escorts translate as prostitutes...you can sleep with them, or just have GFE (girl friend experiences)..in this case..BFE.

They work in a club though, so they're more like strippers (minus the dancing and stripping...). Yes, strippers do the drink hustle, and get paid commission on drinks. They sit there and entertain the men....

Just like these host boys do..host boys can just sit and talk, they drink A LOT of alcohol a night. They can and most likely do sleep with paying women and men. They have regular customers just like strippers do.

It may look all nice and sweet, but Host clubs are part of the sex industry.

If one of you cute lil soompi girls go over to the club and get in...you'll get approached by a host boy ( probably not your favorite cute ones cuz those ones are spending time and collecting big bucks with their regulars) who will see if he can charm (hustle) you for some money.. once he sees he cant, he'll walk away...

just saying...~

From Wiki:

Sometimes a host will go with a customer for a meal or karaoke after business; this is called 'after' and is considered bad manners by some people. Staying longer at the host club is considered the 'proper' way to treat your host. However it is even possible to go on day trips or travel with a host, but a host can only go with his own customer. Meeting or communicating with a customer who is not your own customer is usually against the host 'rules' and if discovered he is liable to be fined or fired from the club.

Sometimes, for instance if a female pays a large amount of money and/or if the host likes them in return, the host can have sex with the client.[3] If the same host meets the same client, she has a higher chance of having sex than the host having sex with another client. There are various terms for a host who has a sexual relationship with his customer, e.g. a 'colourful love business' (色恋営業), 'colourful love' (色恋), 'colourful guy' (色彼), 'pillow business' (枕営業) or 'pillow' (枕).

Yes, the boys do sleep with the customers, but like the info above, it's not like they can 'easily' sleep with them, since outside communication with their customer are considered improper ^^;; Their customer must pay hella lot on money on them *laughs*

[Guest nelly]

^ Thanks for explaining! My friend and I have been arguing what male hosts really do. So they really are like geishas, they sell their virginity to whoever is the highest bidder, only they're not virgins anymore lol. I think their work is pretty decent, they're not exactly prostitutes looking for sex but they're men treat women the way women want to be treated.

On the article above, it says Ryo is the second best host. Who's the first?

[Guest Kirari]

@xfatrabbitx: They are not gigolos. Hosts clubs are very decent compared to strip clubs. The customer are treated with care and proper etiquette. They don´t go around half neckid and shake their snakes at customers you know. ¬_¬ Sexual innuendos are made but never so blatant like in a stripclub.

Their main selling point is not sex. But hey, host or not, I'm sure that if some one comes up to you offering you a million dollars to have sex with them, you'll consider it. And they are men afterall, so sleeping around won't be such a big deal to them.

Whatever they do, they're still cute to me. I'm not being naive or deluding myself or anything.

Here's another article on hosts clubs. I used it for an asignment, my english teacher was very intrigued XD.

Rent Boys

Sunday, Jan. 13, 2002 By LISA TAKEUCHI CULLEN TOKYO Article

Player's Club Dios is buzzing. The band is knocking out R.-and-B. Christmas tunes, waiters are bustling around with bottles of whiskey and plates of smoked duck, and the white leather banquettes are crammed with men in dark suits whooping it up with pretty young women. It's just another party spot in a city of party spots, except for one obvious difference: when a drink is poured, it's done by a very deferential man for a woman paying big money for his attentions.

Male-host bars�mirror images of nightspots where giggling girls fawn over inebriated businessmen�have been on the fringe of Japan's colorful nightlife for decades, catering to aged sugar mamas and scrawny scroungers with hair gel and overlaundered black suits. Kiss those days sayonara. Japan's host clubs have gone mainstream�without getting overly squeaky clean. The newly burnished male host�sans gold teeth and creepy leer�is Japan's latest celebrity. Hosts are appearing on TV talk shows and publishing memoirs, how-to guides and even business books. A high-profile TV movie about a host club aired last month, starring a dream roster of the country's hottest male actors. There are hundreds of such clubs in areas like Tokyo's Kabuki-cho and they vie for business via cell phones and the Internet, which has search sites that rank the city's top hosts by looks and charm quotient. For the customers, Japan's trend-conscious young women, a night at a host bar is part thrill, part danger. The thrill, of course, is somewhat sexual: the guys are attentive, hunky and dangle the possibility they might be available after the clubs close. The danger is financial: after entrance fees, host commissions and nosebleed-priced drinks, a customer can rack up a $10,000 bill in a single night.

If the industry has a poster boy, it's Reiji, a career host and owner of Player's Club Dios. Parked on a rear banquette, Reiji surveys his kingdom in a pin-striped, three-piece Gianfranco Ferre suit and rimless spectacles, looking like a dashing young CEO�which, in fact, he is. Reiji's two host bars gross $8 million a year and he's planning a chain of clubs and restaurants. He has authored two books aimed at businessmen and speaks at universities and to corporations. "I am called the 'King of Hosts,'" he says, "but the reason they want me is because I know the secret to success in business." Which is, of course, women. The host-club industry is roaring, Reiji says, because it focuses relentlessly on the most powerful segment of Japan's faltering consumer market. "As a host and as a businessman, I use what I know to try to think like a woman. Japanese men laugh at that," Reiji says softly, leaning in close. "But I tell you, any business today that doesn't know what women want is a business that won't survive."

What a woman wants, according to his research, is attention, and at a host club, she's overwhelmed. Clubs range from casual pubs to glitzy disco-like halls, but all use pretty much the same system. A woman is lured in with a relatively cheap first-time fee of $50 to $100. On that visit, she must choose her "main" host. Because whomever she picks will receive an up-front commission and half the take from all of her bills whenever she comes to the club, the whole staff showers the newcomer with charm. For a Japanese woman consigned to supporting roles all her life, the star treatment is pretty irresistible. (If she grows sick of her main host, she simply shifts her business to a new club.)

Chika Aoyama, 23, is on her fourth jaunt to a host club, this time with a group of associates from her job in TV. As a leggy graduate of one of the country's best schools, Keio University, she defies the stereotype of host-club customers as dateless losers or low-class nightlife workers. "Just a year ago, I thought host clubs were scary places where men tried to fool you out of a lot of money," Aoyama says. "But I found the boys are so friendly and unthreatening. In the shortest time, it's gone from illicit to normal."

But it's still a business. A host may juggle dozens of clients at a time. Some visit the club just a few times a year, but those who come regularly require a significant amount of off-duty attention. Takuya Sawamura, a gregarious, pink-haired host in Kobe, phones his top clients a few times a week, tags along on shopping trips and acts as their boyfriend at class reunions. He also provides sex. "It's whatever the client wants," he says. He isn't paid cash for these favors, but the women thank him by racking up fat expenses at the club and lavishing him with pricey gifts.

"What we sell is not a thing," Sawamura muses. "If they just wanted a drink, they could go to a liquor store. If they wanted sex, they could call a gigolo. What they want and we provide is caring. Kindness. The knowledge that someone is thinking of them." The common misperception, especially among men, is that male hosts lead glamorous lives with women lavishing on them Rolexes, Dom Perignon and sex. Sawamura, who makes $80,000 a year, laughs. "It's more about research, brains and lots of hard work."

That's obviously not what's on the minds of the 30 young men who turn up every week on Reiji's doorstep begging for jobs. Working as a male host still carries seedy connotations, but the recession has led them to seek out unusual career paths. Katsumasa Tanaka, 26, was a salaried worker at an auto-parts company in Osaka until earlier this year. The slender six-footer with Chiclet teeth came to Tokyo with dreams of singing and acting. After auditioning for a role in a movie about male hosts, he decided he could be one himself. Though top hosts can earn well into six figures, Tanaka is happy with $3,000 a month and an audition-friendly schedule. "It's ideal, except for one thing," he says. "I can't tell my parents."

The sleazy image persists because, as the competition increases, business tactics are getting rough. Police say hosts are preying on housewives and teenage girls, who are sometimes forced into prostitution when they can't pay off five- or six-figure bills. "Schoolgirls are always looking for the latest fad," says Sawamura, "and right now, host clubs are it."

That stigma bothers entrepreneurs like Reiji, who seek a more mainstream image. To that end, he employs only fresh-scrubbed college grads like Fumiya, 26, a former radio DJ, and Noa, 25, who by day works in sales for a computer company. The $1 million interior of his Roppongi club purrs sophistication. Customers pay a flat fee of $30 an hour, including free wine�unless they want to impress their host by ordering the $10,000 bottle. The floor show is more high-school talent night than Chippendales. "We want women to feel it's safe, comfortable and fun," he says.

If Reiji has his way, his clubs will become the model for any service-oriented business in Japan. "Disneyland is a franchise that's attained global success by knowing what a child wants," he says. "If I can get women to love me as much as children love Mickey Mouse�and if I can teach you how�is there any business that won't find value in that?" You might shake your head, finding it hard to make the connection with any other business you know. But give Reiji a fistful of yen for a bottle of cognac and a few hours next to you on the banquette, and it will all sound perfectly charming.

With reporting by Hiroko Tashiro/Tokyo

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,193635,00.html

Disneyland for adults XD.

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v yeah whatever. Yet no one objects when men have a thread devoted to porn actrices. But thank you for your concern. I think we all know what the business is like.

[Guest xfatrabbitx]

of course, just like in strip clubs, extras are not allowed and rules state that any word of this will result in termination or fines or whatever. Girls are just there to sell their time and services ( not sex, whether it be dancing or whatever the club offers).. just like host boys...but any of you who frequent strip clubs often know there are plenty of girls who will break the rules for a few extra bucks.. i'm not saying they sit there and offer sex. they don't. they'll sit there with you, talk, flirt, charm, tell jokes, stories...get really drunk.. flirt some more.. if the customers offer for the right price.well...

And this happens more often then not...

and no, they're not offering half a mil to sleep with them... they'll probably do it for a few hundred....men or female..

i know someone in this particular industry, and many people in the sex industry. so i'm not saying don't think they're cute and swoon over them... i just wanted to shine some light on some of you guys. You've devoted a thread to male pros. hah

[Guest me_n_minwoo]

ahahah, i love this pic. and the guy with the beard is HOT!!!!

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l86/ai0n...ua/ff1464f7.jpg

^ thats my makoto bear right there

and not all of us are naive i know what these boys do for a living but we can still think they are cute just like anyone else

can you post more of him....so far he is my favorite.

i'm trying to find the great happiness space anyone can tell me where?

[Guest chocolate//]

^ Thanks for explaining! My friend and I have been arguing what male hosts really do. So they really are like geishas, they sell their virginity to whoever is the highest bidder, only they're not virgins anymore lol. I think their work is pretty decent, they're not exactly prostitutes looking for sex but they're men treat women the way women want to be treated.

On the article above, it says Ryo is the second best host. Who's the first?

lol did you get that from memoirs of a geisha? i heard that the author (who isn't japanese) made it up.

[Guest ti.pod]

why wasn't i told that there were pictures of hosts in the net???

i've been missing out!!!

the closet i've been to a host... was across the street

LOL

and i was sweatin.

--Ti

thanks for the pics!!!!

my contribution!

my stalker shot of the hosts billboards ... two hosts were under those billboards.. handing out flyers.

we were just watching from afar...

being the dorks we are.

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