Interesting news from Japan--male escorts who entertain and amuse female clients, commanding as much as $50,000 a night, are becoming a cultural phenomenon. These "hosts"--or geishos, as I like to call them--are paid to take their female clientele out on the town and pump up their egos (and only their egos, apparently).

Which is great news for women around the world. Women who want to have a good time this side of an oily male stripper. Women who don't want to be thought of as geishas any longer. Women who want gender equality and like to say stuff like, "I Am Woman, Hear Me Get a Lap Dance." Women who don't have gay best friends to remind them how fabulous they are. And women who want to date men like Yunosuke (pictured), who, with his artichoke haircut, surgically-slimmed down nose, tweezed eyebrows, and lipglossy lips...looks exactly like a woman.