What’s the difference between prostitution and papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan)?
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Most men offer different amounts for an adult relationship (intimate) and dinner, right? It would be one thing if they paid the same amount.
If the amount suddenly jumps when it becomes an adult relationship (intimate), doesn’t that make it prostitution?
Maezawa from the CEO’s office here, too.
Someone else is getting hung up on definitions again...
Doesn’t the terminology really not matter?
Maybe you’re trying to say that prostitution is wrong, but there are all kinds of terms for it: compensated dating, support, mistress, papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan), patronage, benefactor, and so on.
Arguing over how each one is different is pointless. But calling all of it prostitution just to mock people—or talking about it that way—is wrong, too.
At the end of the day, there’s a man and a woman, they’re interested in each other, and sometimes money is involved and sometimes it isn’t.
That’s simply human nature.
If you’re asking this question just to find a way to look down on people, then I’m not interested.
I wish people would become more accepting of all the different ways people live.
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I’m Dai, a male member.
So, in your understanding, as long as the allowance is the same for an adult relationship and anything else, it isn’t prostitution, right?
That’s quite a personal rule. I’m impressed.
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I’m Aya, a female member.
The difference is that prostitution is defined as engaging with an unspecified number of people, but it seems some people do papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) in a way that’s essentially prostitution.
With so many more people entering papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan), that may be why cases like this are becoming more common.
Especially when I look at the questions posted here, there seem to be many cases where people are practically forcing themselves to sell their bodies because they need the money. It’s heartbreaking.
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I’m a male member—and a total loser.
With my favorite girl, I don’t separate the allowance for adult relationships and meals. We meet twice a month, sometimes for an adult relationship and sometimes for dinner only, and there are even months when we don’t meet at all. Even so, I give her an allowance of 100.
A serious relationship with an allowance
is what feels most natural for both of us. Not giving her an allowance is simply out of the question.
On the other hand, I casually use the term papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) for girls I’m seeing as A-type—that is, without an adult relationship. Since there’s no intimacy, it isn’t prostitution, but we both recognize it as papa-katsu.
In the end, isn’t what the people involved think what really matters? Aren’t definitions beside the point?
The one thing that comes through clearly is that your life isn’t going well. Please take care of yourself.
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I’m Kazu, a male member.
The Anti-Prostitution Act defines prostitution as “having sexual intercourse with an unspecified partner in exchange for compensation or a promise of compensation.”
I looked it up, and apparently papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) means “spending time with a financially well-off man and receiving money in return.”
By “dating with an allowance,” I meant “a romantic relationship between a man and a woman involving the exchange of an allowance.”
My understanding is that having sex with an unspecified partner in exchange for compensation constitutes prostitution; otherwise, it’s dating with an allowance.
I don’t think the amount of the allowance matters.
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