STD Risk in Pillow Business: Teenage Hosts Struggle sans Alcohol

This year, major host clubs began voluntarily regulating sales pitches, and an increasing number of host clubs are banning people under the age of 20 from entering.

This should reduce the number of young teenage girls who wander into host …… clubs, but there are no restrictions on hosts who work there if they are 18 years old or older, and many “teenage hosts” are expected to flow in this year as well.

Teenage hosts cannot drink alcohol while serving customers. This may be because teenage hosts cannot drink alcohol while serving customers, which gives them a big disadvantage over other hosts, but hosts who have made sales despite being in their teens are called “10 million teenage players” and are treated as famous hosts.

I can’t drink alcohol, so it’s difficult for me to help my seniors at their tables. I can’t raise the unit price, and I have to ask customers to order non-alcoholic drinks for me. Not many people are willing to pay thousands of yen for a teenager who doesn’t get along with them and can’t speak, so it’s hard if you don’t have the ability to talk. You can’t escape drinking.”

Arata (pseudonym, 21), a former teenage host, says he became the first number one in his twentieth birthday month.

To be honest, I do drink after hours and at bars, but the bigger the host club, the more strict the customers and cast members are about drinking at the host club. I kept trying my best to be non-alcoholic, and on my 20th birthday, I was congratulated by both my own customers and those of my seniors. I was made to drink to death and was crushed. Coming-of-age ceremonies at Corona were not that exciting, so this is a very important memory for me.

It was tough back then with a stomach full of Coke every day, but it was probably better than now when I’m covered in tequila. But I can serve my customers more closely when I’m drunk. …… There are advantages to both.”

Many teenage hosts struggle because they “can’t get help from alcohol. Some of them are strong enough to serve their customers by secretly drinking.

One of the most outrageous teenage hosts I met put tequila in a perfume atomizer and sprayed it up his anus in the restroom to absorb the alcohol through his mucous membranes. He said, “I haven’t been drinking, so it’s not illegal,” but I have no idea whether he came up with the idea from drunkenness or soberness.

A decade ago, host clubs had the image of newcomers being forced to drink anyway, but nowadays drinking compliance has been tightened. On the other hand, there are no restrictions on sex and pillow sales.

I started hosting as a virgin, but I was scared every time I started because I felt like all the customers wanted my chastity.

Minato (pseudonym, 19), who laughs bitterly, came from a boys’ school. After entering university, he wanted to change his unattractive image and started hosting.

He says, “I was a newcomer, so I was licked, and I was a virgin. At first, I was honest with them, but then an older female customer asked me to go to a hotel because she wanted to nominate me. I was so bad that I contracted an STD when I had a pillow with a girl who had spent some money on me.

My seniors also told me, “If you are young and don’t have customer service skills, use pillows to get customers. It might feel a little better than masturbation, but I couldn’t get over the impression that it was work to get something. Now I’ve moved on to a con cafe where I don’t have to work so hard.

I have mixed feelings when I see my classmates from boys’ school, who were also virgins, become sluts in college.

In April, young people from all over the country with dreams of becoming a man will set foot in this town.

From the April 5 and 12 issue of “FRIDAY