@mamamia-user-482898552 No, I actually thought there were eccentric wealthy Japanese men who would give young women piles of money to just be an actual hostess.

@mamamia-user-482898552 Didn't Western women used to travel to Japan to work as hostesses?

@mamamia-user-482898552 Hmmm... I thought those Japanese hostesses were just that. You always hear stories about wealthy Japanese men giving women huge amounts of money for eccentric things. I thought it was true. 

@keen teacher  I agree it is sex work but the name denotes a specific type. 

What bothers me is, as usual, you need to be pretty for this kind of work

@mamamia-user-482898552 At least this time we didn't get the almost standard line: some of my clients don't even want to have sex; they just want to talk. Which leads young women into believing there are eccentric wealthy men who'll give them a thousand dollars just to talk. 

Those stories of celebrities putting on disguises to attend public events as regular folk, are they real or myths?

I thought Chantelle Otten was a sex expert (whatever that is?). When did she become a relationship expert?

@snorks And when Michael Hutchence died way back in 1997 it was widely speculated that it was this (auto) sex act gone wrong.

Isn't that the whole reason we're hanging out at your house instead of going out? Because none of us can afford to go out anymore?

@d123 When I was younger society philosophers would say the reason the poor people want rich people to get richer is because they think they are going to be rich one day.

@d123 Yes, you are deluding yourself. If you did have "that level of money" you'd still just want more and more and more.

Props should be given to her ... that she at least helps quash the idea that women need to be rake thin and lacking in any curve or bump

I’m kind of over dating apps, but until something better comes along I'll be in there swiping

asking people how much they spend on cosmetic surgery is a whole other level of nosy that we're VERY into.

Specifically, how much women are spending on anti-wrinkle injections.

Genuine question: is it actually common for women to have a close straight male friend? When either a single or coupled woman has a close male friend, I just assume the guy's gay. (And I thought everyone else did too.)

@mamamia-user-893622181 I'm just a naive straight middle aged male, but yes, I would've thought society would find it weirder that a woman in a hetero relationship has a close straight male friend, than a single lady having one.

@jay Huh? I thought this idea of uni was debunked forty years ago. That generally men who learn a trade go on to earn as much if not more than men who went to university.

My city council sends out a list of free things to do.

if you go to libraries to get some admin stuff out of the way, you technically are spending money 

Ummm... unlike the tradwife movement, I'm pretty sure women being told to marry rich men, or 'marry well', has been around for hundreds of years.