Last summer, when I had my photos retaken, I chose to make my profile public with my face blurred—it had been secret until then.
I received about four offers, then went inactive again after a while. I do this because I feel it somewhat reduces the risk of being recognized.
Marika
I’m Date◎Yume, a male member.
I think it would be best to look for someone new once things have ended. There’s no need to rush, is there?
It sounds like you already have plans with your papa, so take your time.
I’m Kazu, a male club member.
Apparently, even if you blur your face, you can choose whether men considering making you an offer are allowed to receive an unblurred photo. I imagine that affects how many offers you get.
I’ve made offers to women whose faces were blurred. I’ve encountered both women who were okay with sending an unblurred photo and women who didn’t want to send one. So I think you’ll still receive offers, but it seems like you’ll get fewer.
Generally speaking, men tend to choose whom to make offers to based on their face.
By the way, you say that you’re seeing a monthly papa on the condition that you don’t meet other men and leave the club. Personally, I don’t like people who break their promises.
And since it seems customary to add a little jab at the end, I have to ask: how do you know what class you’re in?
I’m Maezawa from the President’s Office, and I’ll answer as well.
If you rejoin, even if you blur your face, you’ll still be using the same registered name, so there’s a risk people could identify you from your name.
Even if you change your name, there are certain things that can give you away. I won’t say what they are because more men might start looking for them, but most men have noticed them. So if you have male friends who are also registered with Universe and might check your profile through them, there’s still a chance you’ll be recognized—even if your face is blurred and you’re able to change your name.
That’s why I can’t help thinking it might have been better not to agree to the condition in the first place:
“You won’t meet other men, and you’ll quit the club.”
When he proposed those terms, you could have said, “Then I’ll look for someone else.”
Were the terms really that generous (well-paying)?
> Would I still receive offers with my face blurred?
Of course, I think you would still receive offers. However, from the men’s point of view, I feel that more than half of them would find it too much trouble to contact the staff just to ask about a woman whose face is blurred.
As a result, more than half of them would simply skip women with blurred faces—meaning they wouldn’t view their profiles—and look for someone else to make an offer to.
There would still be about half who were curious enough to ask about women with blurred faces, but simply put, your offers would probably be cut by more than half.
If you used to receive five offers a month, you might still get one or two a month, so I think you’d probably be fine with your face blurred.
> Is your face really that important?
The first step in choosing from the list of women is selecting based on their photos, so I do think your face is important.
Men then look at your profile and decide whether to make an offer, so factors besides your face certainly matter too. But if a man doesn’t feel like viewing your details based on the initial photo, he won’t look at your profile in the first place.
So I’d say your face—and therefore your photo—is fairly important.
