Sono Yoshioka is down on her luck and needs a job when her friend refers her to do admin work, only it’s not what she thinks. Sono ends up in the middle of an escort service, taking appointments. While navigating her love life and deciding what she wants for herself, she finds deeper meaning in intimacy and connection.

I missed the first volume of this release, so I caught up to make this manga release. Coming in fully blind, I did not expect anything that I read. I tried making connections to things that would stereotypically happen in romance manga, but this is a drama by definition. While romance was Sono’s goal, it was not the destination for this manga.

I initially thought things would take a left turn, like in Sweat & Soap, but it was refreshingly insightful and introduces the behind-the-scenes of a world a lot of us are unfamiliar with. Are there explicit scenes? Nothing that you wouldn’t find in sex education. The real focus of the story is the escorts and the women who hire them.

In both volumes, you see a glimpse of what their day looks like, and it really shows just how insecure people are of their bodies and the harsh standards society puts on us and what we put on ourselves. The escorts handle these insecure women and couples with such grace and patience that their minds take a 180 after.

Is this encouraging the good folks to buy an escort? To each their own. Most times, we just want to feel vulnerable and not have to perform in front of people we love, and to love our bodies as they are.

Yachinatsu was able to show the discomfort and awkwardness in each panel. Even though this was a slice-of-life dramedy, it offers emotional rawness while encouraging the reader to reflect and fall in love with the story.

Do Women Need Sex Entertainment vol. 2 is on sale April 7, 2026.

Buy both volumes from Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, and Forbidden Planet (UK & Europe)