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New to Bristol Papa? These two set the scene for everything else on the site.
PJ#3: Noa, or Three Dinners & Chocolate
Noa was twenty, worked in a bar, and was – I want to be precise about this – the kind of pretty that makes other people in the restaurant slightly worse at their jobs.
PJ#4: Reading the Board
So, a bit of a confession. I work in IT. I manage huge projects for a living, usually for commercial teams selling things.
PJ#5: Momone, or The Sequel
I'd like to tell you I learned from Noa. I did. I learned slowly, which is a different thing.
PJ#2: Aya – What I Did Wrong the First Time
Aya was the first woman I met on the app, and I approached the whole thing with the confidence of a man who has never done it and the knowledge of one who never will.
PJ#1: What is papa-katsu?
Patronage is not a new idea. Men with money have been supporting women without it, in exchange for company of varying warmth, since roughly the invention of money. Japan just kept better records.