In Japan it’s apparently big business for women to hire a person to flirt with their husbands hoping they will cheat so they can get a bigger divorce settlement. According to a news report that followed one of the girls called a wakaresaseya:
Working for a Tokyo-based detective agency called Secret Shadow, she is hired by wives who want to entrap their husbands and ensure a better divorce settlement. Women initiate 75 percent of Japanese divorces — 27 percent of marriages end in one, a rate that has doubled in the past 15 years — but unless they have hard proof of infidelity or some other wrongdoing, they risk being awarded pitiful payouts by the courts.
“Women have had enough of being treated badly,” says Fukuda, a psych major who took the seducer job for “the excitement” and the $200,000-a-year salary. “It’s the norm in Japan for husbands to cheat, so I don’t feel bad about tricking them on behalf of their wives.”
For $2,500 a week per client, she engineers an innocent first encounter with the husband — sitting next to him in a noodle joint or asking for directions — and then follows through with a second “coincidental” meeting in the street. “I tell them I’m thrilled to see them again, and then suggest we go to a bar,” explains the glamorous Fukuda. “They rarely refuse.”
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Dear Japan, we’ve enjoyed and have utilized so many of your wonderful inventions over the years; from Cup O’ Noodles to Sushi, from Martial Arts to Karaoke, and from Japanimation to a vast array of Electronics, that I feel that it’s time that we offer you a cultural gift as well, as a token of our appreciation, in the form of some new words that can be used to describe your Wakaraseseyas. You’ve done so much for us, it’s the least we can do… really. I hope that you enjoy them as much as we do!
In Japan they’re called Wakaraseseyas?! Well, in America we have a few names for them too; such as: Skeezers, Hookers, Harlots, Hos, Sluts, Tramps, Trollops, Hussies, Jezebels, Jumpoffs, Hoodrats, Chickenheads and my personal favorite, the timeless classic; Scally-wags.
Now that we’ve formed a special bond, bridging any gaps in the cultural divide that has tried to separate us since Pearl Harbor and most recently the Bush Era, I’d like to make one small, humble request…
A shiny, new Time-Traveling Spaceship would be nice and greatly appreciated. We know that you have the knowledge, the technology and the man power to make it happen. Make it so, Number 1.
In return, we will offer you; A National Holiday, An inclusion to any of our National Sports Leagues, an update on all of our Pop Culture via The Life Files and all the Funnel Cakes, Onion Rings and Chicken Fingers that you can stand.
Deal?