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...profoundly boring,” insists Albert H. Cho, former chair of the BGLTSA and a Senior Class Marshall. Anyone who saw him strip in front of the Science Center to support the PSLM last February, however, would immediately disagree. Although he has strong personal beliefs, Albert doesn’t like telling people what to think. This Arizona native explains that braving the “freezing” temperatures to bring attention to the PSLM cause “allowed me to take the middle ground.” Such thoughtful behavior is characteristic of this highly accomplished...
Albert H. Cho described himself as “generally pretty boring,” a charge his friend, FM co-chair and international sex symbol Vicky C. Hallett, rebutted by pointing out that Albert was just in Qatar at a suspicious-sounding “conference.” He recited an poem about Vicky that he emptily claimed was made up on the spot, which climaxed, in all senses of the word, with him giving Vicky a hickey, which rhymes with Vicky. Other dinner guests refrained from saying anything about the display making them sicky...
...more innocent end of the scale are venues called omiai clubs. Omiai refers to marriage matchmaking, but in Kabuki-cho, Tokyo's famed red-light district, it takes on a raunchier meaning. At one such place popular with runaways, girls pay $2 for unlimited access to free sandwiches, juice and karaoke. Male customers pay $30 to make a "match"?a no-strings date?which the girls are free to refuse. At the more lurid end are a dizzying range of brothels called health, cabaret or image clubs. Many market their staff as minors. A Kabuki-cho club made famous...
...yakuza runs these joints, and it lures girls into them with live bait. Handsome young men called "catch" hover in the alleys of Shibuya and Kabuki-cho, swooping down on young targets. They're pretty boys who begin by flattering a girl, acting unthreatening, and then moving swiftly to temptation by dangling the promise of quick money and easy work. It's a lucrative job, says Eiji, a bottle-blond catch with a bronzed face wearing a skinny black suit. Once he reels a girl in to his employer, he collects up to $200. "The younger and cuter," Eiji explains...
After dark, take a subway or taxi to Shinjuku station and walk east to Kabuki-cho, the red-light district, where tipsy businessmen and fashionable coeds frolic alongside transvestite hookers. The area is Disney-safe, but if it's trouble you want, look for a square bordered by cineplexes where a boxer lets patrons pummel him for a charge. From there, walk west to Green Plaza Shinjuku, across from Seibu Shinjuku station. The entrance is cheesy, but the 10-story, 24-hour spa is clean, respectable and welcomes foreigners. It features a gem on its roof: the rotenburo, or outdoor...