Near the end of the year, some people may be asked by their parents, "Have you found a girlfriend?" ", being urged by parents to be more stressful will be greater. Some people don't want their parents to worry or simply want to perfunctory the past and may choose to "rent a girlfriend" to go home. In fact, in China, "renting a girlfriend" is also a common phenomenon. The earliest came from a novel in 2009 and its adaptation of the TV series "Rent a Girlfriend Home for the New Year", and in 2010, after the TV series fire, "renting a girlfriend" even became a new term during the Spring Festival.
This phenomenon in China has also affected Japan. It is said that the original author of last year's popular "Rented Girlfriend" Miyajima Reijima was inspired by this. However, the difference between the Chinese TV series in the month is that the protagonist of the comic is not renting a girlfriend because his parents forced marriage, but he is left lonely by his girlfriend and finds a "rented girlfriend" service on the Internet. The heroine portrayed in the comic is the "rented girlfriend", and the sunny style can be said to be a very ideal girlfriend.
Of course, some of the content is also based on the real-life company that provides "renting girlfriends", "renting girlfriends PREMIUM", and the "Diamond" company in the work is based on "renting girlfriends PREMIUM". So what is the situation in the Japanese industry in reality?
Lovers surrogate service
In Japan, this industry is called "lovers' surrogate service".
In Japan, the market has expanded rapidly since it was introduced on TV around 2012 and around 2013.
In Japan, the industry emerged around 2012 and expanded rapidly after being introduced on television around 2013.
The requester looks at the profile posted on the company's website and nominates the cast along with the request for the date, time and time of use.
The whole process is to specify the date, lease time and "lease" object after the applicant sees the profile posted on the relevant homepage.
When the nomination is accepted, an email or LINE will be received from the cast, and you can discuss the date course etc. on the day (communication from the cast will be made at the business address prepared by the trader).
After the name is accepted, you will receive an email from the rental object and the LINE contact information, and you can discuss the date itinerary of the day together (the rental object uses the work account to contact the customer).
During a date, the cast acts as a lover of the client. Some cast members can hold hands or fold arms (but no further skinship or sexual services are prohibited). You can also extend the use for an additional fee. Some vendors also offer paid options such as swimsuit dates and handmade bento boxes.
When dating, the rental partner will play the role of lover requested by the guest. Some rental objects can hold hands and can hold arms (however, physical contact and sexual services beyond the boundaries are prohibited). Additional charges may extend service hours. Some staff will also prepare swimsuit appointments, handmade bento and other fee items.
The fee structure varies depending on the supplier, but there is a nomination fee (usage fee per hour) and a business trip fee (depending on the meeting and dissolution location). Casts are ranked by popularity, and higher ranks increase the nomination fee. Actual transportation expenses may be collected separately for meetings and dissolution in the distance. Payment of the fee is paid directly to the cast on the day or paid to the trader in advance by credit card or bank transfer. In addition, the requester also bears all the costs incurred during the date (food and drink expenses, etc.).
The fee system stipulates that the fees to be paid by different levels of leasing objects are also different. This mainly includes the naming fee (calculated by the hour) and the travel fee (depending on the place of meeting and dissolution). The rental object is divided according to the level of fame, and the higher the grade, the higher the naming fee. If you meet and separate far away, you may have to collect the total toll through other means. You can pay the fee directly to the rental object on the same day, or you can pay in advance by credit card and bank transfer. In addition, all expenses spent on the date (meals, etc.) are borne by the guests themselves.
The psychology behind leasing
It is also possible to rent a boyfriend without just having a rental girlfriend in Japan. So why is this industry growing so fast in Japan? Why would you want to rent a girlfriend (boyfriend)?
Some people may think that it is the misfortune of loneliness, wealth, curiosity, and old sex. So what is the truth? Look at the needs and ideas of the Japanese.
Netizen 1:
I want to date a beautiful and cute woman that I can boast to my friends and show my friends that I have her.
I want to date very nice and cute women that make me proud and can also show off in front of my friends that I have a girlfriend.
Netizen 2:
I'm tired of love being swayed by my lover and selfish girlfriend who gets angry as soon as I don't get in touch with her. A girl who praises me for doing my best even for small things is good, and a man is one that gets well if there is a lover who admits and praises himself for working hard.
Lovers will be angry as soon as they can't get in touch, be tossed by their wayward girlfriends, and have a sense of fatigue about love. Even if it is only a small thing, it is good to praise herself for working hard, and if a boy has a lover who recognizes his hard work, he will become more energetic.
Netizen three:
I broke up with my boyfriend and cried every day because I was broken-hearted. I don't want to fall in love anymore. There is no encounter only by round trip at work. I'm afraid of being bound by my lover. They hold hands together to date the park, praise me for cuteness, and heal my heart.
It is a boyfriend agency service.
After breaking up with my boyfriend, I cried every day about the lovelorn affair. I don't want to be in love anymore. Busy with work every day and have no chance to meet the right person. Being bound by a lover is terrible. If you rent a boyfriend, the two can hold hands and date together in the park, and he will praise me for being cute and feel very healing.
Netizen four:
Every time I go home to my parents' home, it is stressful to be persistently forced to marry , saying that 'It is okay to match each other'. Even though I do not have a desire to marry, my parents interfere one by one, so it is also possible to rent a boyfriend role as a lover and convince my parents.
Every time I go back to my hometown, I will be forced to get married and say, "Hurry up and get married," "Blind dates are not bad," and I feel a lot of pressure. If you have no plans to get married for the time being, but your parents urge you, you can rent a boyfriend as a lover to reassure your parents.
Is the rented love happy?
Everyone's ideas are different, although they can be understood. But in this kind of relationship that money buys, can you really feel the happiness of love? It is estimated that only the parties concerned know.
Here are the thoughts of the people who experienced it:
Introduced to the rental girlfriend of the parents
Every time I go back to my hometown, my parents say " Aren't you married yet" by my parents, so this time I rented a girlfriend to prove to my parents that I had a girlfriend. My parents finally breathed a sigh of relief and reassured me. After that, I also rented it several times, and I also wanted to be popular with women and then bragged at work, and on my birthday, she also came to the company hall to give me a handmade bento. After dating women who are cuter than in photos, the men at work are jealous of me (laughs).
Experienced a romantic date.
In fact, I have a boyfriend, but because of many years of dating, I have always been plain and less moved. The number of meetings is also slowly decreasing, in order to change the mood, I want to go to dinner with handsome men, and I want to experience the feeling of my heart beating faster on my first date. So I rented a boyfriend. My rental boyfriend would compliment me on my clothes and hairstyles and walked hand in hand with him in the park for a well-timed time.
Lovers acting on behalf of the family = Daddy live?
From the above post alone, the experience is still good, of course, the forest is big and there are birds.
In recent years, with the development of the industry, there have also been some problems. This industry is also gradually considered to be suspected of "daddy live" and "custom shop". Mainly the news that happened in Osaka, the synopsis of the incident is as follows:
On January 9, 2018, several representatives of employment placement companies were arrested on suspicion of violating the Employment Security Act (introduction of harmful work) for introducing the work of sex shops by approaching women who applied for internet job sites, such as "There are other more expensive jobs" and "You can earn more money with a little sexual element".
On January 9, 2018, a woman applied for a job on a recruitment website and was introduced by people at an employment agency to work at sex custom shops such as "there are other higher-paying jobs" and "people with a little sexual element can earn", and several representatives of the company were later arrested for allegedly violating the Career Stability Law (introducing harmful businesses).
On the site, they were soliciting dating service business as "there is no sexual service", but in fact they introduced work such as fashion health and soapland. Hundreds of women have been brokered. In addition, it has been pointed out that there is a risk that "women are forced to work in a way that is contrary to their will" may be rampant.
The website recruits appointment pick-up staff under the name of "no sexual service", but in fact introduces work such as fashion health and Thorpe Park (in Japan, it generally refers to shops that engage in pornographic bathing services). Hundreds of women were introduced by intermediaries. In addition, it was noted that "women forced into employment" could become more and more rampant.
Speaking of which, China has a similar problem. In 2013, I saw a post in the Chongqing community of Tianya, a man rented his girlfriend home for the New Year, and as a result, the two sides "called" to have sex, and then they were asked for more than a thousand yuan. Also, in 2019, the Beijing News also published a news "New Year's Tenant 'Trap': Fraud and Pornography Services".
In general, the loan girlfriend industry itself is not perfect in law, in fact, it is still relatively easy to have problems. In the process of getting along, both sides should strengthen their awareness of self-protection. And the rental girlfriend (boyfriend) can solve a momentary hurry but not a long-term solution, after all, it is impossible to rent every year, or it is better to talk about love sincerely.
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