I’m a male member—and a total loser.
- No honey traps or extortion
- We both know each other’s identities on Universe, so no one can pull anything shady
- Unlike other dating clubs, they don’t retouch the women’s photos
- They have videos
- There are so many beautiful women that offers never stop, and you could go bankrupt
That’s what Universe is like.
Social media is the exact opposite, so doing papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) through social media is way too risky and completely out of the question.
You might get free sex, but you could easily end up with HIV and a yakuza connection thrown in for good measure.
If you’re just looking to pick someone up—not do papa-katsu—then I think social media is an option.
Maezawa from the CEO’s office will answer this one as well.
Was this question asked simply to promote Universe’s advantages—in other words, a form of stealth marketing?
(I doubt Universe staff would bother doing something like that, though.)
There are some decent people on social media too. You can even meet someone for H at a very reasonable price. Some people ask for as little as ¥8,000.
However, there are also plenty of unreliable people. Apparently, it’s common for someone not to show up even after arranging to meet.
There also seem to be a lot of compensated-dating businesses posing as individuals, as well as scams. There’s all sorts of trouble.
I’m not sure whether this counts as a scam, but apparently one man went into a hotel room, handed over the money, and then the woman took an unusually long time to shower. When he thought something was strange, she said the money was only for talking in the hotel room.
I don’t know the exact details, so perhaps it wasn’t technically a scam. (If the agreement was simply “¥30,000 to go to a hotel,” then he did in fact go to the hotel, so it wouldn’t be a scam.) But the man said he had been taken advantage of.
There are other cases too. One woman had said in advance that she was married and suggested meeting at an internet café. When the man tried to proceed there, the door suddenly opened, and a man claiming to be her husband and another claiming to be his friend were waiting outside. It turned out to be a setup, and the man lost only his money.
Apparently, all kinds of things happen.
To use social media for this, you need to be able to deal with all of that—and be the kind of person who can think, “Well, at least losing that money was a good learning experience.”
Maybe only one in ten people replies, only one in ten leads to an actual meeting, only one in ten is cute (because the photos are edited and misleading), and only one in ten is genuinely independent rather than working for a business.
If you multiply those rough figures together, it seems perfectly normal to end up in a situation where you only meet one good woman out of every 10,000.
For people who think their own time and effort are effectively free compared with paying money, meeting women through social media may be a good option.
However, when you compare the effort involved in searching for women on social media with how much you earn per hour, most people probably find it financially more worthwhile to pay Universe a setting fee and offer a higher allowance than they would on social media.
That, in fact, is probably why more people come to Universe.
Men also need to understand that when people who don’t properly grasp this give women only the same allowance they could get through social media or dating apps, the benefits of a dating club decrease for women, and they eventually stop coming.
If the allowance is the same as on social media, wouldn’t social media be easier? You don’t have to go through an interview or submit identification.
And yet some men still try to give women at Universe the same amount they would offer on social media. I wish those men would leave.
If you think Universe exists thanks to you, you’re completely mistaken. Men like that are nothing but pests eating away at Universe.
If you want to keep the allowance low, you can simply use social media instead.
I’m Kazu, a male member.
I can understand why you’d want to ask, but if you don’t mind me saying so, I found myself thinking that you should give things a little more thought before acting.
I once approached a woman I was interested in on social media and ended up doing papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) with her. Before contacting her, I carefully read through her posts and took plenty of time to consider it. Her photos had been edited with an app, but she was someone I could have a sensible conversation with.
That said, I still believe it only worked out because I happened to get lucky—it doesn’t mean things will always go smoothly.
