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@Linfamy - Please do a video on the history of Kawakami Gensai that inspired Rurouni Kenshin! 🙏 I need to learn more about the time traveling badass Samurai.
I can see how the courtship would build anticipation and make the payoff more rewarding. If you're an aristocrat, you probably expect the most refined version of any experience, and you don't get that by hiring a random drug addict to service you in an alleyway.
> clients pay hand over fist for a *chance* to meet a girl > when they meet her she might refuse if the client didnt pay enough > at any point, a whale might come by and totally own you > and by the time you have reached platinum rank, you are so deeply invested that you cannot simply drop the game Im starting to think that gacha actually has quite deep cultural roots
@@exotixzamateurva8957 lmao only for the weak willed that does not know how to spend responsibly and not doing research on which gacha game is budget friendly. Take me for example. Only 2% of my monthly income go to 1 of my 3 gacha games. 2 of them I play for free and has been playing for 3 years. So no gacha isnt always about making you pay shit ton of money, you might be the issue of ur own downfall
Hi. Your resident translator/enjoyer of Classical Japanese literature here to point out that the custom of men leaving their lovers before sunrise had been a staple of Japanese romances for centuries by the Edo Period, and not only was a dude hanging around annoying for workers from a workload perspective, it was just extremely unromantic and lacking in any social grace or finer feeling.
@@R.P.-hw2rq This is why it's good to not have tipping, people camping is the company's problem not yours 😅 (i'm not sure i would have been very polite if someone stayed for an hour after closing lol)
It's funny how in many cultures third date is also considered a date from which an intimate relationship is possible. First date is to establish a connection in a neutral place, second date is to probably allowing to visit a house but not to stay, and third date is a more close, intimate date. I heard such stories from different countries.
Ive discussed this with my friends before, but easy sex is just not attractive, granted, alot of men wouldnt turn it down, but they also wouldnt return for more or at the very least seek a further relationship with the lady than filling a sexual desire. Moral of the story: waiting can be kinda sexy
To be honest in the west that was popularized by Sex and the City which is kind of funny when you think about it. There are people who wait untill marriage as an excellent filter among other reasons, other people are sociosexualy unrestricted individuals(scientific term for a hoe) or somewhere in between. The third date thing is not a real thing in practice, like many unfalsifiable things that sociologists write on opinion articles, some people have sex more easily like after 3 dates if they like you, others value it more and so on, it depends on the person but generally speaking someone should not go on a third date expecting sex. lol
@zereimu Yeah, I'm fairly sure my parents waited a few weeks before going to home base, and they are both non religious, working class people, so not very many rules holding them back.
@@Lickickerit's kinda like shaking hands for me. Get it done, see if they're any good, if you're still attracted to them beyond the thought of being attracted to them... The physical shit is fleeting anyway, it's the person you get to know, sex is not a reflection of who someone is but you can be incompatible sexually/physically. Source - banged my husband of 13 years on the first day. Still here together 😊
Lin, you’ve GOT to do a video on the phenomenon of Yokai sightings in Hawaii because of Japanese immigrants. They were known as Mujina but actually resembled the Nopera-bo.
@@Linfamyaccording to Wikipedia, author Glen Grant catalogued many Hawaiian Obake (term for Japanese ghost) sightings in his book series the Obake files.
I once found a book in an 'antique' shop on that exact subject! It was full of stories that the author collected from the descendants or first hand from the immigrants themselves. Not sure if I still have it somewhere
Immigrant monsters arent' unique to Hawaii either - there's sightings of Ghillie Du (a Scottish fairy associated w/nature) on golf courses because the Scottish greenskeepers had inadvertently brought them over when first immigrating to the USA and Canada.
My dude, not only was the video exceptionally informative on a subject matter i knew next to nothing about, but holy Christ on a motorbike is your pun capacity near nuclear! I have not in living memory had to rewind a video so often to actually get the point of what was said due to laughing at the elegance of the multifaceted wordplay. I am so very glad to have subscribed to your channel and truthfully I have never laughed so much from a video i was learning from. Deepest regards to your skills at imparting facts and extracting laughs.
It reminds me of Gaoshung asking Rihaku of where Mao Mao is and then taking her and the vergiris house top courtesans to a luxury house just for Jinshi to see her. Yup the theme is Chinese but the air is as close to feudal Japan.
A top ranking Eunuch working at the Imperial palace directly under the emperor is probably treated with a _little_ bit more respect than regular clients.
@@slothguy5946 I mean, from what I've heard, prostitution is still a really big thing in Japan, to the point girls consider normal for a partner to pay a prostitute. Really crazy and messed up if real
Only got to 6:00 before I finally gave and burst out laughing, this one had so many zingers. Valley of the shadow of breasts will live rent free in my head.
Modern day hostesses/hosts aren't that far off from geisha. Including how you're not paying for sex but everyone wants to believe that maybe they'll be the one that they're actually into enough to want to have sex with. I'd argue that hostesses replacing geisha is similar to how geisha themselves replaced oiran.
From what I know of Japan, I am completely unsurprised by this. They're masters of complex ritual and highly layered social interactions during which knowing your "place" relative to others is crucial.
I doubt this happened but now I’m curious. What would happen if a man stopped visiting his courtesan because he got married ? Like the wife isn’t another courtesan so would it count as cheating? Would he get punish? Or would he just be seen as weird for picking his wife over a courtesan? Like him being a good husband to his wife might be a nightmare for his courtesan!
I really appreciate these, um, “social norms” videos where we learn about the strange societal formalities or whatever for lack of a better word. Videos about the way of daily life for peasants/meechants/artisans that are quite different from life in my geographic region (America) and my time period. I always wondered things like “were there banks? What kinds of games did they play in gambling dens? How did brothels work (like in this video)? Basically anything that gives insight to what exactly was it like living in this area at this time. I really appreciate all you do for us Linfamy!
Heyo linfamy! I'm writing a lil book, it's a romance one and it'll be about a courtesan and her customer. I got inspired by your recent videos and most of the information I'm using will be from your videos so thank you very much for making such informative videos!! Love ya and your vids lots
I have really got to wonder if the 幼馴染 (osananajimi, "childhood friend") trope in anime, manga, and doujinshi is historically related to the 馴染み (najimi) of Edo courtesans or if it's just a coincidence that the two share sexy circumstances. Great video!
It's so interesting to find these videos on old rituals on sex and pleasure and trace them back to the modern day. Like, in some areas (and this seems more prevalent in the states, though I haven't worked outside the americas so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), you're still expected to tip your escort after you get past a certain price point.
Awesome video as always! I noticed there's a couple of centuries missing in content. Seems like theres a lot on times up until the 1300s and then a lot from the 1600s onwards. What happened during 1400-1500s?? Is there just not enough research available for this period? Im curious
I'm not a historian but from the history books that I've read, the 1400 to 1600 is a period which surprisingly, kind of lacks documentation (primary sources). On the one hand this might be because it was a period of strife and warfare, with all the burning and looting many documents went up in flames. But even the big players (Oda Nobunaga, HIdeyoshi, Tokugawa) have left a surprisingly small number of letters and documents for posterity, and lesser daimyo have left even less, making it hard for researchers to explain some of their actions and thinking. Historians are still not sure why this happened.
He just hasn't finished the Kamakura period. It's been years since the Mongol invasions. The craziest shenanigans in history are coming up but at this point I believe in getting TWOW and Silksong before getting there.
@@nidohime6233 well yeah, but that was all there was for 200 years? People didn't have lives appart from war? No cultural expression? Even war has a culture around it
I hate countries that require mandatory tipping. Pay your own damn staff. Tipping should be for good service, it shouldn't be a substitute for minimum wage.
We are are so lucky to live in a time, where we can watch RU-vid videos of stories told by a Cursed Wakashu Still waiting for your video on Spit Calligraphy!
Every tume I watch these videos, I just keep thinking to myself, "Bruh, this is more goddamn work than just staying faithful to your wife. Why even bother with this nonsense?"
1) prestige 2) boredom of the family life with someone you, most certainly, had a loveless arranged marriage 3) excitement for something new and fresh.
@@user-od7hh8qg9d Ach, true enough. But as much as I know that my comprehension of their reasoning is hampered by MASSIVE cultural differences, it just seems like too much goddamn trouble. And I'll never understand the conceot that being a simp for a high-class escort conveys status, even if I can understand that this was so in that culture.
I think you misunderstood slightly the point of this video, these rules and rituals only applies when you want to sleep with high ranking courtesans which usually only celebs and government officials can afford. So for those big shots the more power play they have to go through makes it more exciting and feels more elite. But for those common men just looking to get laid with common prostitute i think the rules back then are still pretty much the same as today. You get in, you choose your girl, book a room, do the deed, then get out.
Yo is there anyway you can do more Yōkai stories, I liked this video a lot but my favorite of your content is when you say the different type of yokai has your the best at describing it and tell what they are like
Your interpretation of tipping customs in the US today are surprisingly generous. I consider 15% to be standard for normal (good) service, and if a meal at a restaurant had any type of insects, I certainly wouldn't tip at all, let alone 15%.
What I find the most amazing is that seemingly every golden era no matter the culture or geographical region red light districts are legal, and during economic downturn they are made illegal.
how could they find enough people with such immense amount of money? only daimyos, high ranking samurais and very wealthy merchants could afford such spending on the regular
I assume the vast majority of bussines went to the discount courtesans (I like that the video points out it wasn't all billionaires f*cking starlets, it annoys me when videos about prostitution only talk about the $10k/night market)
Compared with some of the older videos about marriage, it sounds like getting sex from a courtisan was actually harder than from, and with more consequence when cheating.
Wouldn't this make it a cultural reasoning or background for the dating sim genre that also came out of Japan? You choose a girl, try to make sure you get the correct social and behavioral responses with the possibility of a bad/high stakes ending?
