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April 12, 2005
Desperate housewives
Hi everybody. I am back home but realizing I am lacking the necessary oomph to post much more today. More tomorrow. In the meantime, here is something add to the file for my ongoing fascination and befuddlement with Japanese culture. So many marriages are reported to be sexless that the Guardian reports some genuinely desperate housewives have turned to Kim Myong-gan's clinic, and "sex volunteers", for assistance. The service sounds sensible but, well, clinical.
Mr Kim's short-term solution is unconventional. After an initial 20,000 yen (£100) counselling session, he produces photographs of 45 men, mostly professionals in their 40s, with whom the women are invited to go on dates and then, in almost all cases, arrange regular assignations in hotel rooms.
Mr Kim dismissed charges that his service was little more than a male prostitution ring. "The men volunteer and pay half the hotel and restaurant bills, so legally there is absolutely nothing wrong with it," he said.
Mr Kim dismissed charges that his service was little more than a male prostitution ring. "The men volunteer and pay half the hotel and restaurant bills, so legally there is absolutely nothing wrong with it," he said.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 12, 2005 04:11 PM
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