The enjo-kosai girls I've met are totally different from what the media, including foreign news organizations, portray.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

There are myriad ways for male customers to hook up with enjo kosai: karaoke lounges, love hotels, strip clubs, magazine ads and telephone clubs where men sit in a booth and take calls from girls dialing in on their cell phones.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

But the movement for reform has only gathered pace after the sudden growth of enjo kosai (compensated dating), a polite expression for schoolgirl prostitution, which has got seriously out of hand with the arrival of cheap mobile telephones, coupled with the economic recession.

ECONOMIST: Japan