>>6521560Basically yeah they don't have to put it in writing to do it anyway. Even if they have one, the idol culture still forbids it from ever being mentioned as it shatters kayfabe. They'll pry real fucking hard, dig through every little atom of your past they can find, they want you to open up like a book or they won't even bother with you. Then, just coincidentally, they won't hire any apps with current bf but of course won't actually ever say that's the reason. Idol fans, like actual ones in Japan, mights suspect or even assume many or most of them are dating and such but don't ever actually know it for fact. If an idol is getting kind of too old/long in the tooth they'll generally "pls just get married so you can retire" and so on.
Since a bunch of fucking idiots who know nothing about this culture are gonna come run their mouths about this probably for hours/days, let me fucking explain something. Yes there are idolfag unicorns who actually truly strive for purity in Japan, and would indeed be out the door in a nanosecond if it's confirmed BF etc. HOWEVER, really this isn't as nutty as it sounds when about 25% of Japan's female population are virgins in the 20-40 age range. That rate's only in fact been going up the last few years, not down. This is the essential part people really REALLY fail to fucking understand in the West - it's not that unrealistic of odds for them there; it might only require slightly deeper digging on the part of talent agencies to find ones that fit that angelic cherubic purity that seems just a laughable impossibility in the West. They as a people REALLY are that pure overall compared to Western standards/expectations, and without it being forced a some religious/puritan thing, making it even yet-harder for Westerners to comprehend. I wouldn't say they're better for this, they're just fucking different from us is all. I'd also say it's kind of sad that we're so jaded to just assume it is a totally impossible fairy tail and those people are out to lunch. They would be, in the West - not in Japan.
