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Staged Seduction - Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club (Hardcover)
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Staged Seduction - Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club (Hardcover)
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In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-cho red-light district,
ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance,
companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant
sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all
intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who
employ feathered bangs, polished nails, fine European suits, and
the sensitivity of the finest salesmen to create a fantasy for
wealthy women seeking an escape from the everyday. Akiko Takeyama's
investigation of this beguiling underground "love business"
provides an intimate window into Japanese host clubs and the lives
of hosts, clients, club owners, and managers. The club is a place
where fantasies are pursued and the art of seduction isn't merely
about romance; a complex set of transactions emerges. Like a casino
of love, the host club is a site of desperation, aspiration, and
hope, in which both hosts and clients are eager to roll the dice.
Takeyama reveals the aspirational mode not only of the host club,
but also of a Japanese society built on the commercialization of
aspiration, seducing its citizens out of the present and into a
future where hopes and dreams are imaginable-and billions of
dollars can be made.
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