援えん助じょ交こう際さい

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

compensated dating; paid dating

Refers to a practice where older men pay teenage girls or young women for dates, often involving sex. The term is strongly associated with underage prostitution in Japan. Often abbreviated as 援交.

See also: 援交

• 援えん助じょ交こう際さいは社しゃ会かい問もん題だいとして取とり上あげられることが多おおい。

  Compensated dating is often taken up as a social issue.

• 彼かの女じょは高こう校こう生せいのときに援えん助じょ交こう際さいをしていたと告こく白はくした。

  She confessed that she had engaged in compensated dating when she was a high school student.