enjo kosai en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 援助交際 (enjo kōsai).
Meanings
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(uncountable) The practice whereby young girls in Japan and Hong Kong provide companionship or sex to older men in exchange for money or luxuries; compensated dating.
Many of the girls involved in enjo kosai think their fathers probably have their own kogals anyway, so why shouldn't they also reap the rewards of the practice?
2008, William Sparrow, Red-Light Nights, Bangkok Daze:The high price of these goods means that many young girls are tempted into lucrative enjo kosai in order to afford them.
1999 July 8, Michael Fitzpatrick, The Guardian: