Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club
An ethnographic account of Tokyo host clubs, examining how male hosts sell dreams and emotional intimacy to female clients in Japan's nightlife economy.
About This Book
Staged Seduction explores the world of Tokyo host clubs where men provide companionship and flirtation to female customers.
The book examines how hosts perform intimacy and desire as part of an economy built on selling dreams.
Akiko Takeyama investigates the emotional labor involved and the social dynamics between hosts and their clients.
The study reveals how commercialized romance reflects broader patterns of gender, class, and consumer culture in contemporary Japan.
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