Rent-a-friend in Japan

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Rent-a-friend in Japan

In Japan, now back in recession, the economic situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse in recent months. But the Japanese still like to use their money to have fun, as Duncan Bartlett has been finding out.

Lola - or Rora - to give her a slightly more Japanese pronounciation - is a beauty and she knows it.

Customers pay by the hour for her company. Usually they just want to stroke her, but as a special treat for favoured clients, she will lie back in a chair, close her eyes and pose for photographs.

Lola is a Persian cat who works at the Ja La La Cafe in Tokyo's bustling Akihabara district. It is one of a growing number of Cat Cafes in the city which provide visitors with short but intimate encounters with professional pets.

When I called, there were 12 felines and seven customers, mostly single men.

Read more @ BBC News

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Midnight — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 - 16:38

I guess its true what they say about guys.

All they think about is:

sex, money, sex, money, sex, money, cats

lol

RI_RS — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 - 18:34


"Lola - or Rora - to give her a slightly more Japanese pronounciation - is a beauty and she knows it.

Customers pay by the hour for her company. Usually they just want to stroke her, but as a special treat for favoured clients, she will lie back in a chair, close her eyes and pose for photographs."

Haha, that made me laugh. I thought it was about a Geisha 😂

And i was so not expecting "Lola is a Persian cat" < LOL.
"....Provide visitors with short but intimate encounters with professional pets" o_0 Ewwwww.

That's icky.

Angelic (not verified) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 - 10:11

[quote=MakeMeRawr_6TeenF]
"....Provide visitors with short but intimate encounters with professional pets" o_0 Ewwwww.
[/quote]
Sounds like sexual abuse, poor pets!

Dawud — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 - 21:14

[quote=Midnight]
sex, money, sex, money, sex, money, cats
[/quote]

Lol

Interesting though. Single guys get happy by chilling with cats?

RI_RS — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 - 18:17

[quote=Angelic][quote=MakeMeRawr_6TeenF]
"....Provide visitors with short but intimate encounters with professional pets" o_0 Ewwwww.
[/quote]
Sounds like sexual abuse, poor pets![/quote]

This one doesn't seem to mind...
She's a beauty and she knows it remember? 😛

The Lamp — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 - 10:01

Yeah, but the big bosses of the sex trade say: "They enjoy it and want it, so it's OK to treat them as objects."

You — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 - 10:29

erm... I am quite sure the animal is NOT used in a sexual capacity.

More a company thing.

Japan is a crazy place.

You — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 - 14:37

How lame!

(and I do suspect the above link is a form of spam trying to get the google links count for the site up.)