Recently popular solo drinking women, neither with a boyfriend nor friends, casually enter izakayas or bars alone to enjoy a drink, so to speak, a generation or two ago's middle-aged gal. As the last train approaches, they might be offered, 'If you'd like, I can call a taxi to take you home,' leading straight to a love hotel or their residence for an immediate intimate encounter! The rumor is that women drinking alone, feeling lonely, are posing in a way that they want to be invited, longing for a certain part of a man's anatomy.
