Tuesday, May 14, 2013

For rent

Renting people in Japan is no new thing. There are hostess and hosts bars, there are call girls and there was that interesting sleep partner one for the sleep cafes. And now I find that you can rent a person for just about doing anything. I don't know how I manage to still be surprised at these things.
I find it insanely interesting that it is possible to rent a person for an outing in Japan. I mean sure it is no different than going to a hostess club and paying for their services to sit and chat with you, or summoning a call girl to come to your home, except that there is a lot less regulation. You are not going to have driver come and pick you up at a location at a certain time where you have been the entire time, you are not going to their established place of work where every action is monitored by their pimps, I mean hostess mammas. But to actually rent a person and just do normal things like going out and about, to a zoo or a park or shopping...
In reality, it is really not much more different than an escort, except I am under the impression that for the duration of the visit all clothing articles stay on. It is more like you are renting a character to play a part in your life. You are renting yourself a boss to command you to work to get you out of that game night where you made a bet that you are really starting to regret. Or better, you are finally getting married to your dream girl, only you lied to her family about having a job and now you need to rent a bunch of people to pretend to be a law firm where you practice. Of course you would have to have enough money in the first place for that to be possible, but hey, maybe you are a undesirable drug smuggler with extra cash lying around. Not that there are many of those kinds in Japan, but I suppose its possible. Probably the best excuse for using such a service though, would be to rent a boyfriend or girlfriend and get seen with them in tons of public places to get that creepy weirdo stalker or ex to leave you alone.
And whats more??? You can rent an entire family. Wanna go see that new Iron Man movie and don't want to go alone, rent a family, you can even have your choice of brothers and sisters.  Now that, is weird. It is like this service especially caters to Batman.
However this is a one time service kind of thing. You cannot keep renting the same person over and over. This isn't a call girl or a host/hostess. This is a rent-a-person. And they don't want you falling in love or stalking them. They are purely there to keep you company for a single duration of 8 hours. They even come with a fake name and address to make sure preventative measures are taken against any undesirable actions. Of course you can rent a person from the company again, it just can't be the same one. This also lowers the chances of repeat customers.
All this for the low price of $150.00 per person. And a discount for a family (once you realize what having siblings is like they go for half price) at $350.00 for the whole bundle.

Am I not selling you well enough? Are you not Batman?
Well there are other services too. Of course there are the other services, but I am not talking in a sexual manner. There are bed partners. Extremely similar to the cuddle and sleep cafe partners who will come to your home just to sleep next to you. And it is exactly that. No funny business. Of course you can do other things too, like dining or cleaning or cooking, provided that you provide the dinner, equipment or ingredients, but there is a strict policy of no touching.
What is to say that other things happening behind closed doors or how they enforce their policy. I have no idea. I would imagine there was some kind of emergency call button the man or woman could press if things were progressing in an unsavory manner.
Sleeping not exactly your thing? You can even plan a tasteful dream date with a companion for no small expense.

Really the intricacy and detailing of these sales pitches are really quite interesting. I really wonder about how their businesses are going...
Rental Persons
Tasteful Sleeping and Date services

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