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Entrepreneur Hiroki Terai is the founder of a crying therapy service in Japan. Women pay a man to make them cry, then gently wipe their tears away. The practice is said to relieve stress. After much research into the benefits of crying, Terai developed his own methodology which relies on one key component – a handsome man. Why? Because, according to Terai, handsome men elicit more “emotionally heightened” experiences from women.
Ryuei-san, one of the handsome men, said that tears serve to heal the person. Aside from wiping the tears off the woman’s face, Ryuei-san will also sing songs or play guitar to console his clientele. Among his most frequent customers are women experiencing divorce, and upwardly mobile women. |
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| elicit = to get information or a reaction from somebody
console = to comfort somebody who is unhappy upwardly mobile = moving to a higher social position |
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