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I was recently watching Ouran Host Club and it seems to centre around, how
should I describe it?

> Listening to girls talking about themselves and watching the girls go
> distraught in love over guys

But what exactly is a host club? I have never heard of such a term in my life.
Is it real?


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Is there such thing as a "Host Club" from Ouran High School Host Club?


In Japan, a "host" (ホスト _hosuto_ ) is a male worker at a club whose job is to
entertain a female clientele. The clubs at which hosts work are called "host
clubs". Host clubs (and their cross-gender counterparts, hostess clubs) are
not really found outside Japan or places with a large Japanese diaspora as far
as I know, so it isn't surprising that you wouldn't have heard of them. See
the Wikipedia article "[Host and hostess
clubs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostess_club)" for more details.

Having never actually been to a host club, I'm not in the best position to
evaluate the one depicted in Ouran, but based on my secondhand understanding,
the Ouran Host Club is sort of a less-seedy version of what you'd see at an
actual host club.

That said, I'd bet you any amount of money that no actual high school in Japan
(or anywhere else for that matter) has a host club. The very idea of a school
allowing minors to do something of that sort is ludicrous, which is part of
what makes Ouran so funny.


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