At a glance, First Dash is just a regular Tokyo bar. Customers laugh and drink, their animated chatter competing with the monotonous beat of techno thumping through speakers hovering somewhere above dimmed, orange-tinted lights. The customer — a portly, balding middle-aged man in a nondescript suit — shuffles over to a table followed by a slightly built teenage lad, ruffled locks partly shielding a furtive, floor-fixed stare. Usually they are masochists who want me to be, well, you know, domineering. While some want nothing more than a bit of company over dinner, others want a whole lot more, performing acts that in some cases could be argued verge on abuse, even rape. My sister is lesbian, and so is my aunt.

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JAPANESE GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN: SCHOOLGIRLS, YAMAMBA, PARASITE SINGLES | Facts and Details
The testimonial was part of an exhibit, including photos and artwork, in the Japanese capital that sheds light on an underground industry known as "enjo kosai", or compensated dating, where men pay girls for dates that often lead to sex. Japanese men's fascination with high-school girls fuels demand for such services, and exhibit organizer Yumeno Nito said many people have the wrong idea about the girls themselves. The mere use of the word "compensated" implies the girls seek fun and money, rather than being victims of sexual trafficking, said Nito, who heads a non-profit organization, Colabo, that provides support to such young women. The age of consent for women is 13 years in Japan, although there can be exceptions. It is the girls' youthfulness, poverty and naivety that make them vulnerable to abuse, Nito said.


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Girls generally outperform boys in school and study as hard or harder but are often taught that finding a husband is more important that choosing a career. The Year of the Fiery Horse, , was considered to be bad luck for girls. Girls born that year were regarded as future "man eating women" and the birthrate in dropped by 25 percent.



Nakamura, who asked to be identified only by his surname, is happy to remain single. The economics major at a school in Tokyo has never had sex, but he says he is OK with that. Experts point to a variety of factors contributing to this mindset, from the advent of the Internet to financial insecurity to improving career opportunities for women. A survey released last January by O-net, a marriage counseling firm, found that To top it off, a survey by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry revealed that the percentage of unmarried somethings who do not wish to have children surged to