Jan Usmovec stops an enraged bull. 1849.

Eugraf Semyonovich Sorokin.

"People will forget what you said, forget what you did, but they will never
"they will never forget what you made them to feel." Maya Angelou.

https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/05/21/the-controversial-cult-of-the-host-club-in-japan

Host clubs are booming in Japan. Some 21,000 hosts—well-dressed young men, often wearing make-up like k-pop stars—work at 900 such establishments. They pamper and flatter their female clients. Sex is not part of the bargain but could happen, somewhere else. Clients usually seek psychological rather than physical intimacy and a break from reality.