Enjo kōsai (援助交際, Enjo kōsai?), or "dating for assistance", is a practice in Japan where high school-aged girls are paid by older men to accompany them on dates and sometimes to render sexual services.

On the streets of the major cities, porn is sold in vending machines and on street corners yet no pubic hair can be shown. While in convenience stores around the country, people casually leaf through manga (comics) depicting gang rape and extreme sexual violence. The ancient custom of arranged marriages continues while ‘Love Hotels’ flourish, catering for anonymous sexual encounters and ‘office love’. Buttoned down salary men pay hundreds of dollars at late night ‘Snack Bars’ for the privilege of flirting with a younger woman – the modern day geisha – while others join the ranks of flashers, train gropers and public masturbators who constitute the after dark sleaze of the entertainment district before returning home to their families.


One curious product of the sex life of modern Japan is the practice of enjo kosai, which translates literally as ‘assisted dating’. In this scenario, school age girls – usually high school but occasionally middle school girls – meet with older men, strangers, and date them in exchange for expensive designer label gifts or the money to buy them. The dates can consist of anything from a walk in a park or chatting in a coffee shop to drinks, dinner and sex.

Enjo kosai meetings are usually set up using mobile phones, pagers or over the Internet where there are bulletin boards and newsgroups more or less dedicated to facilitating contact between interested parties. On these Internet boards, an interested man simply types in something like, “$600 for dinner and sex”, leaves a phone number or email address, and waits for a reply. The practice operates strictly within the closed circle of Japanese culture and off limits to foreigners who would be largely unable to negotiate the finer points of the culture at any rate.

I've read it's some materialistic Japanese teen girls trading sex for brand-named LV bags they dire to own.

*wave* hey tami!

Psh. I want $10,000 too

It's really Japan's internal business. But "foreigners" would probably be pissed and have to condemn it because "the practice operates strictly within the closed circle of Japanese culture and off limits to foreigners who would be largely unable to negotiate the finer points of the culture at any rate."

lets see how long it takes for the first white guy to come wandering in asking about how foreigners can purvey these japanese delights.