{"id":1765,"date":"2008-04-08T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/men-are-the-latest-accessory\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T16:56:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T21:56:56","slug":"men-are-the-latest-accessory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/men-are-the-latest-accessory\/","title":{"rendered":"Men are the latest accessory"},"content":{"rendered":"

From CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It’s a dizzying reversal of traditional gender roles in a country long known for geishas pampering male clients with conversation, singing and dancing. Now a new breed of entertainer has cropped up — think of them as male geishas.<\/p>\n

« I give women things that men normally don’t do, like complimenting their appearance, » says one host, 24-year-old Yunosuke, who only goes by his single host name. « I make women happy. »<\/p>\n

And they make him happy: Yunosuke says he earned more than $200,000 last year, enough to let him visit a salon once a day to have his hair dyed and blow-dried.<\/p>\n

« Women see us as one of their accessories, » he says. « They like to wear nice things, so I try to look prettier for them all the time. »<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s definitely a trend here. After reading Vers le sud<\/a>, I need to get my hands on Cliente<\/a>, a novel by Josiane Balasko (soon to be a movie). And of course there’s Christian who pulled a few tricks<\/a> (link= video) as a high end escort recently on Nip\/Tuck<\/a>. (The video link doesn’t lead to the right scene but the striptease is kinda worth it, in a campy, Nip\/Tuck way)<\/p>\n

Check out the picture of the guy<\/a> who is quoted in the CNN article. He looks strangely like that creepy woman<\/a> who follows your mouse with her eyes. I wouldn’t want to be his « cliente » if he did that to me. Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From CNN: It’s a dizzying reversal of traditional gender roles in a country long known for geishas pampering male clients with conversation, singing and dancing. Now a new breed of entertainer has cropped up — think of them as male geishas. « I give women things that men normally don’t do, like complimenting their appearance,… Continue reading Men are the latest accessory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,13,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}