Word: companionship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These are middle-class girls from good schools. Many sign up for the money, which they use to buy expensive designer clothes. But according to Rika Kayama, a psychiatrist who specializes in young women's difficulties, the high school girls are as eager for anonymous companionship as the men are for a sexual thrill. "I do this to kill time," says one, "and because my friend asked me to do it." She is 18, just graduated from a Christian high school in Tokyo, and makes about $16 an hour. Sometimes the work is unpleasant. "The old guys want to talk...
...what only the White House, Rush Limbaugh and a few dozen senators had been exposed to: his Go-Pat-Go information packet which includes a pretty damn hysterical parody of the president as Uncle Sam declaring, "I want you! One good, proud, patriotic gay or bisexual male for companionship...
...patriotic duty, not a pleasure; and the consort--Philip in the case of Elizabeth, Di in the case of Charles--has always been in a rather awkward spot. In Di's case, the indignity was compounded by the fact that Charles already had a woman for purposes of companionship and love. Camilla Parker Bowles was his real partner, Diana just a means of reproduction...
...together; nobody wants to get a divorce. But, despite all these natural bonds between them, if two people cannot be happy together, they probably will (and should) pursue separation regardless of what society says. Especially when people marry young, they often change and develop a personality better suited for companionship with another. If this happens, it is very cruel to force two people to remain together unhappy for the rest of their lives solely to preserve the sanctity of an institution which no longer works for them...
...other hand, Jayne said that elderly subjects usually participate for the sake of the companionship of the technicians. "They're usually very lonely," he says...