Kida, the representative, will answer.
Huh?
Yes, we’re going to implement that.
The profile pages for male members are already in place, and around April, female members will be able to browse a list of male profiles and search for someone who suits their preferences based on their profile details.
However, the only thing women will be able to do is click a “You’re lovely ♡” button for a man. After that, it will be up to the man whether he wants to make an offer to the woman.
I hadn’t thought of having women pay the setting fee. If we could make that happen, I think it would be really great.
Even among papa-katsu apps, there aren’t any sites where the woman pays. That’s precisely why even having women pay a small amount would be a major point of differentiation.
Men would probably be curious and want to meet someone, too. And if the meeting is arranged on the basis that the woman already likes them, the matches should be more accurate. It would be beneficial all around.
I’d like to make this a reality someday.
Thank you for the idea!
I’m Saito, a columnist and current male member♪
A while back, LSE held an event with a title along the lines of “Reverse Offers: Women Choosing Men♪,” where women got to choose the men.
I attended once, and I remember being incredibly happy when 10 out of the 11 women made me an offer.
(I heard from a staff member that the one remaining woman deliberately left me out because she thought I wouldn’t be interested anyway.)
At the same time, my male friend, who had paid a hefty annual membership fee and participation fee but received no offers, decided he would never go again. Since I also happened to meet a wonderful woman, neither of us attended the event after that. I get the feeling the event itself was eventually discontinued, too.
It might be difficult to do this as an event, but as you suggested, it could work on an individual basis.
If women could make offers through the system based on the limited male profile information available, without much effort, and it could also benefit the business, I’d definitely love to see it implemented.
I think everyone would put a lot more effort into writing their male profiles, too. lol
Maezawa here.
That’s an interesting request.
A while back, there was a male member who wanted to receive reverse offers. He gave me his photos, and I personally reached out to individual women on his behalf.
He also said the setting fee could remain unchanged.
We would start by sending a woman the man’s photo and asking, “Would you like to make a reverse offer to this man?” We would repeat that with several women. If someone replied that she wanted to make an offer, we would then ask the man, “This woman has sent you a reverse offer. What would you like to do?”
Of course, if she wasn’t his type, nothing would come of it. If she was, the reverse offer would be successful.
However, since the process wasn’t systematized, it was extremely labor-intensive, and the idea eventually fizzled out naturally.
I still feel bad for that male member.
So I think it could be done if the process were systematized, but considering that no one has managed to build such a system yet, perhaps it’s simply difficult to implement.
It seems that some services do offer a reverse-offer system. However, when I hear from men who are members there, they say things like, “The number of female members only increases little by little, so even though I’m a member, I hardly use it,” or, “I receive lots of letters from women through the reverse-offer system, but I don’t read them.”
Hearing that really drives home how difficult it is to build such a system.
As long as host clubs continue to exist, I think there’s a certain level of demand. However, since it’s not very common for women to pay and men to receive money, I can’t help wondering whether that makes things difficult.
Of course, in this case we’re specifically talking about reverse offers within a system where women receive an allowance, so it’s a little different.
In any event, despite everything I’ve just said, the new establishment is actually taking the opposite approach: rather than building a system, they’re offering a completely customized service.
I do worry that the staff may be taking on an overwhelming amount of work, but they’re already accepting members even though the opening hasn’t happened yet.
There’s no member-only page. Instead, staff ask women what kind of men they would like to meet, ask men what kind of women they would like to meet, and then arrange introductions accordingly. It’s a completely customized service.
Since men choose whether they’re interested in a woman after meeting her, women have the chance to showcase their charm in person.
This is very different from the existing system, where men choose women in advance based on photos and videos.
It’s also a system that respects women’s preferences, such as wanting to meet a certain type of man or being attracted to a particular kind of man.
