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"dating" (Original Post) madamesilverspurs Nov 2017 OP
Where is Chris Hansen when we need him? spooky3 Nov 2017 #1
+1 LOL Hoyt Nov 2017 #3
Want to know what is weird..... Not Ruth Nov 2017 #2
Using the word "dating" is nothing more than a whitewash. lunatica Nov 2017 #4
There is a relatively new concept of the sugar daddy Not Ruth Nov 2017 #5
Nothing would surprise me Mr.Bill Nov 2017 #6
Some guys think a restraining order. spike jones Nov 2017 #7
The use of that term is creepy Cary Nov 2017 #8
I wouldn't let that MOFO anywhere near my 15 year old daughter. Still In Wisconsin Nov 2017 #9
 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
2. Want to know what is weird.....
Sun Nov 12, 2017, 04:15 PM
Nov 2017

Ask any 14 year old who they date. 14 year olds do not date. They do not have cars or money. They hang out.

 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
5. There is a relatively new concept of the sugar daddy
Sun Nov 12, 2017, 04:31 PM
Nov 2017

Possibly based on Japan, which is not that far from Vietnam, where Moore served.

Quite a few websites these days arrange matches, wherever legal. I am not sure if that was a concept when Moore was making dating arrangements with the mothers. For the record, it all is so strange.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/for-vulnerable-high-school-girls-in-japan-a-culture-of-dates-with-older-men/2017/05/15/974146c4-035d-11e7-9d14-9724d48f5666_story.html?utm_term=.73cfb572a065

TOKYO — High school dating? No big deal in many parts of the world — but in Japan, it means something quite different.

Here, “high school dating” matches girls in uniforms with men in their 40s and 50s and beyond. And it means money changing hands.

Sometimes this involves a walk around the block or a drink in a bar. More often, it involves sex — child prostitution by another name.

“It’s easy to talk to these girls,” said one man in his 30s who was sitting at a wooden school desk in AKB High School, a cafe in Akihabara, a part of Tokyo known for its subcultures. A 17-year-old girl in a school uniform brought the man and his colleague, both of whom declined to give their names, beers and chitchat.

“We actually find regular bars uninteresting these days,” he said. “I got tired of regular bars with old women.”

They admitted that the uniforms are a big part of the attraction. “They look so cute,” said his friend, in his 40s. “The uniforms make them look one and a half times cuter than they actually are.”

Mr.Bill

(24,282 posts)
6. Nothing would surprise me
Sun Nov 12, 2017, 06:20 PM
Nov 2017

in a country where you can buy soiled girl's underwear in vending machines.

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