First experiences in the hap-bar and adult entertainment industry… Explore the inside story of the “back graduation season,” the season when the latecomers burst onto the scene.

It has been about two weeks since the new school year began. The downtown area is full of young people in suits, drinking and partying.

Kabukicho is no exception, with young people who would not normally visit the area staggering about. In fact, there is a “back graduation season” from March to May for men and women who have graduated from high school or college but failed to “graduate” from something else.

There was a camp for newly graduated employees, and most of the guys were talking about which girl was cute and how they wanted to go out with that girl. I realized once again that men really only think about getting laid.

Micah (pseudonym, 22), who left his night job in March and started working at a major company as a new graduate, says with a look of dismay, “I think I’m going to get into the most trouble in the company.

I thought they were very aggressive,” she said. “I thought they would get into the most trouble in the company, and I usually avoid casual relationships with people who are not thinking about marriage. I can’t sleep with a guy I don’t care about unless he pays me for it.

I would talk about my love life, but I just went along with the conversation. It’s a pain in the ass if they think I’m a slut, and they tease me for being a virgin. ……I want to work hard at my company, make a modest income, and live my life without making waves. I feel sorry for the guys because they teased me about being a virgin.”

It seems that the presence or absence of romantic experience tends to be directly linked to a complex. On the other hand, in the athletic club of a high school affiliated with a famous university, there was a customary event in March before graduation.

The club members would all pitch in and buy a night of soap operas for those who had graduated from high school but were still virgins. So all of them graduated from high school and became virgins. I can’t guarantee the level of the girls, though, because I can’t pay as much money as I can at a high-class soap shop. It was a boys’ school joke, wasn’t it? I was the one who supported them, but I hoped that they would gain confidence and go out into the world and be satisfied with their lives (laughs).

Satomi (a pseudonym, 27), who serves such boys every year, recalls, “Everyone calls a delicatessen girl.

I hear stories about how they all call a delicatessen and then meet up later to talk about their experiences. I don’t want them to say bad things about me, so I deal with them moderately and tell them not to do such things with their girlfriends because it hurts.

I also hear stories like …… where a girl with no money went to a very cheap delicatessen and a girl older than her mother came out and ended up being a dud. I honestly don’t feel good about it, but we are all equally just customers.”

It seems that men have a lot to say to each other about their inexperience, but it seems that girls are also in a rush to get to know each other. Akira (29), a regular at a happening bar, met a virgin at a hap-bar in Shinjuku in May.

There were two very young girls, and they were both virgins. One of them had already had sex with a guy in the area, and she had already given up on him. I was surprised that they would lose their virginity at a hap bar.

When I asked them about it, they told me that they had entered college and were living in a dormitory, but everyone had already done it except for them, so they got impatient. So they tried to graduate at a hap bar during Golden Week.

I kissed her as a way of saying hello, and the girl said, “That was my first kiss. ……” I was so impatient. But the girl was cute and looked like she would be popular in college. Of course I hugged her, but I wonder if that was the right …… thing to do.”

The new year makes us want to graduate in many ways, but it is also important to stop and think.

From the April 26, 2024 issue of FRIDAY