
I joined her "company" and started working the next night. Getting hired was as simple as texting a few pictures to Jerry, her driver/manager. She said all she did was look pretty, drink, and hang out, and she made an easy $400 a night, cash-in-hand. Finally, in what seemed like an intervention from above, a coworker told me about her night job as a doumi, a gig she got through a Craigslist ad. Asking for money from my family was not an option (I tried). After paying bills, I had $25 left to eat for the month. The cost of living was three times as high as I was used to back in my hometown of Las Vegas, and my student loan grace period was over. I struggled between waitressing and office temping to pay for a shoebox apartment in Koreatown. Some of the girls wore Kate Middleton-esque nude pantyhose, which they called "Vagina Protectors," so they could show some leg while also warding off unwelcome stray hands. After three months of interviewing and résumé-tweaking, my writing career consisted entirely of food orders at a local cafe. I was certain that my six-month internship at a local newspaper was all I would need to break into publishing. I was 26 years old and my degree in journalism was proving useless. It was good money, and the men were usually pretty generous, but it depended on how generous I was with what they wanted, and that's where the trouble began. I was a doumi for my first summer in Los Angeles.
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If the men want to extend their visit with her, it's another $60 per hour, and she keeps $40 of that, plus the entire tip. If she does get picked at all that night, she gets paid $120 for two hours, of which she keeps $80. If a girl doesn't get picked, she moves on to the next room, or back in the car to the next club until she gets a seat. The men, usually middle-aged Korean businessmen with lots of money but little swagger, observe the line-up, maybe ask a question or two, and either wave the girls away to see the next round, or pick their favorites to sit next to them. Late at night in LA's Koreatown, girls file into karaoke rooms rented by men who request female company. This tradition is alive in the heart of Los Angeles, though a touch shadier. The men use the karaoke rooms to let loose or impress potential investors, the way Americans would use a steakhouse with a craft beer bar. Welp! It looks like the Japanese have once again raised the bar for absurd game show premises, and also given Internet writing folks like me ample opportunity to really work in some erection puns.Somewhere along the spectrum of women-dominated professions, hovering between a mid-level escort and an elementary chorus teacher, there is a doumi.Ī doumi (sometimes spelled domi), in Seoul and Hong Kong, is a karaoke hostess, a woman hired by clubs to cavort and sing kitschy tunes with overworked (and often repressed) businessmen. The aim is to not be distracted by the hand job, and sing flawlessly through to ejaculation, which brings whole new meaning to the phrase "belting it out". Here's how the game (porno?) is played: The contestants must remember all the words to the song they're singing while being jacked off, and in order to win, must also hit all the correct notes. This literally must be how Japanese game show Sing What Happens, where male contestants have to sing karaoke while getting a hand job from attractive, semi-naked women, who often use their hands but also sometimes use their feet to give sexual pleasure. For instance: "cooking" and "balancing a live cat on your head" "Playing naked Twister" and "your grandparents" "Re-enacting episodes of Law & Order" and "swimming in a tank of pinching crabs".

You can literally take two completely unrelated things, throw them together and BOOM!-you're on the air.

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It must be fun to pitch ideas for TV shows in Japan.
