Beauty of seduction in a Tokyo host club

Author(s):
Takeyama, A.
Published
2006
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

'I just want to be thought of as special', says a mildly intoxicated woman in her late 20s as she is taped for an NTV special on Tokyo's host clubs. Her face fuzzed out for privacy, she leans toward her male host and looks at him, perhaps with shy, yet impish, eyes. The host returns her gaze with an ambiguous smile. Maybe he likes her....

AnthropologySexualityJapan
Date issued
2006
Language
English
Publisher
IIAS, Leiden
hdl
1887/12711