Hong Kong’s bizarre prostitution activities are a legal sex service industry

Hong Kong's sex industry is the collective name for Hong Kong's sex service industry and related industries. The sex trade itself is legal in Hong Kong, but the organization and manipulation of sex trade activities is illegal. The relevant legal system is similar to that in the UK. Sex workers and individuals receiving sexual services are legal, but manipulating sex workers is illegal. Hong Kong has not established a statutory red light district to provide business services for related industries, but the more famous areas for sex service operations include Portland Street, Shanghai Street and Reclamation Street in Mong Kok, Fuk Wah Street in Sham Shui Po, Temple Street in Yau Ma Tei, and Tai Kok Tsui. , as well as places such as Champagne Building in Tsim Sha Tsui.

fixed place of business

One Floor, One Phoenix: Sex workers provide sexual services alone in residential units. It is a unique way of legal transactions in Hong Kong. It is named because there is only one prostitute in a residential unit. In Hong Kong, if more than one sex worker provides sexual services in exchange for payment, the relevant premises will be presumed to be a brothel and violate the law. Therefore, only one sex worker can provide sexual services in a single premises. Legal transaction model.

Additional fees: Some prostitutes will charge extra fees for clients on the grounds that they have long legs and big breasts. There are also prostitutes who charge extra fees when clients make special requests. For example, it is required to take off all clothes (prostitutes will wear clothes when providing sexual services and only expose their vaginas to facilitate vaginal intercourse), and perform other sexual intercourses besides vaginal intercourse (for example: anal intercourse, oral intercourse, breast intercourse, etc.).

Nightclubs, karaoke singers, and sexy massage parlors: usually such places only provide legal entertainment or find sexual partners, but sex transactions are not allowed on the premises, because there is a high chance of being accused of operating prostitution if sex transactions occur in entertainment venues. The sex trade must be conducted off-site (such as the Clock Hotel). Some lower-end entertainment venues will tacitly allow employees to provide sexual services at the business premises, and conducting sex transactions directly in the venue is commonly known as "on-the-spot legalization."

Gigolo: may not provide sexual services, may only be for appreciation, similar to dancers. If sexual services are provided, they usually have to leave the performance venue and go to places such as the Clock Hotel for sex transactions.
High-end sexual services (similar to high-end private girls or high-end call girls): This type of sexual service is more expensive, and customers pay more attention to privacy. Sex transactions are usually conducted in residences or high-level hotels, and clock hotels are rarely used. Some of them are performed on yachts, and some unmarried female celebrities will provide sexual services at home to the upper class or male celebrities in society.

No fixed place of business

call girl
Sex workers who have no fixed place and mainly sell advertisements on websites and provide contact numbers, come to customers' homes (call services) or provide sexual services in designated hotels at the request of customers. In some cases, call girls (commonly known as "daddy") answer calls from customers and negotiate prices. These call girls who are assigned to hotels to provide sexual services through "daddy" are also called "hotel girls."

Private Zhongmei and Gao Zhongmei
The nature of a private bell girl is the same as that of a call girl. She is one of the prostitutes in Hong Kong. "Private work" refers to working freely, without an intermediary, and the income from prostitution is all your own, and there is no need to split the income with nightclubs or "public relations companies". Although there is no intermediary, the private bell girl keeps all her income, but she can only rely on herself to find customers, including contacting the customers and negotiating prices, and then being called to the customer's residence or hotel to conduct transactions. The customer base of private escorts is generally narrow, and they are usually recommended by customers, so they pay more attention to service quality. Some private escorts will also publish escorts or dating services in Chinese and English newspapers in Hong Kong (such as Oriental Daily, HK Magazine, etc.) Advertise, or regularly appear in the hotel bar to attract new customers. Private girls can be further divided into high-end private girls, which are "high-end private girls". They originally refer to high-quality private girls who are part-time and have basic requirements for customers. They not only provide sexual services to customers, but also They provide social services such as escorts, meals and parties, and then go to the hotel for sex. The charges of Gao Zhongmei are 30% to several times more expensive than those of ordinary private bells.

Fish Ball Girl
"Fishball girl" is an old Hong Kong proverb that refers to the prostitutes who work in "fishball stalls", most of whom are underage girls. Although they are underage girls, they actually refer to "female students". Their workplace is called a "fish egg stall" and they sell their bodies to serve customers. Because sex trade in the venue is easy to violate the law and be shut down, so under normal circumstances, such places do not allow fish balls girls to have sex with customers, including oral sex and masturbation. Customers will only be allowed to insert their hands into the fish balls. The things that move around in the girl's clothes are called "Fishies". If the customer wants to do something further, he can make a private agreement with the "Fish Ball Girl" and conduct transactions outside the "Fish Ball Stall". Because the way the customer touches women's breasts with both hands is a bit like the action of a "fish egg chef" making fish paste and making fish eggs, she got the name "fish egg girl". Another explanation is that "fish egg girls" can only touch with their hands and cannot have sex. This kind of touching with hands is also called "fish egg". Others say that it comes from this kind of young girl who has not yet developed for a long time. The shape of the breasts looks a bit like fish eggs, so they are called "fish egg breasts", which further leads to "fish egg girls".

In the 1970s and 1980s, "fish egg stalls" were operated through a license to open a "recreation center", so the "fish egg stalls" usually used the tea room upstairs as their sign. On the surface, they were operating legitimately. In the early years, "fish egg stalls" In order to avoid violating the licensing conditions and having the license revoked, customers and girls were not allowed to have sexual intercourse in the venue. However, more and more "fish egg stalls" were opened later, and due to competition, some "fish egg stalls" began to take risks and acquiesce. There is obviously no market for "fish egg stalls" where customers have sex on the premises but only touch but not do anything. Therefore, more and more "fish egg stalls" condone the sex trade on the premises and have evolved into brothels with signs of tea rooms or recreation centers. , the government then enacted legislation to prohibit two sex workers from prostitution in the same premises, and stepped up efforts to crack down on such prostitution establishments. From then on, it was difficult for "fish egg stalls" to evade legal liability, so they declined rapidly in the 1990s and were replaced by the emerging Yilou Yifeng Instead.

Lao Nimei
"Lao Nimei" is a derogatory term used for certain marginal girls in Hong Kong in the 1990s. It is said that it was first used by "East Weekly" in 1994. "Lao Ni" in Cantonese means dirt on the skin of the human body. Generally, this kind of dirt is caused by not taking a bath. Because "Lao Nimei" ran away from home, she could only have a chance to take a bath when she had sex with other people. This phenomenon later became the subject of movies, such as "Old Mumei" and "Old Mumei: The Four Queens" wait. After the mid-1990s, this term was rarely used in society. The characteristics generally referred to as "old mud girls" include: running away from home without taking a shower, being promiscuous, using foul language, smoking, and often hanging out in East Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok.

Qijie (station wall)
Women in sexy clothes stand on the street to attract customers, sometimes attracting the attention of pedestrians with their eyes and movements. They mostly recruit customers in Mong Kok, Yau Ma Tei and Jordan, including Jordan Road, Shanghai Street, Reclamation Street and Temple Street, Apliu Street and Fuk Wah Street in Sham Shui Po, and then trade in clock hotels or suites.

Support prostitutes (similar to illicit girls)
Some high-class people or male celebrities will provide support for one or more prostitutes who will come to work when they are sexually active or hold sex parties. In addition, there are also corruption criminals who provide prostitutes for bribes

Mainland sex workers come to Hong Kong to engage in prostitution
Walking into the old buildings in Tsuen Wan district, at least 40 tenement buildings have been controlled by a prostitution syndicate. In the past two years, this group has used three times the rent to induce property owners to rent out their units, then renovated them and installed monitoring equipment; on the other hand, it has used WeChat to recruit sex workers from the mainland to Hong Kong for prostitution, and provided venues, pornographic products, and customers. "One-stop" service, but requires 50% commission. Over the past two years, this prostitution syndicate is estimated to have arranged for at least 2,000 sex workers to come to Hong Kong every year, pocketing nearly NT$20 million.

The underworld is mainly responsible for the operation and management of prostitution groups. Their internal division of labor is also detailed and well-organized. Members will be responsible for purchasing pornographic products, posting advertisements, recruiting customers, and collecting money. Police said the prostitution syndicate hoped to evade police eyes and ears by dividing its operations into finer divisions. On the other hand, triads will provide "one-stop" services with "care and attention" to women in prostitution, including methods of entry and departure from Hong Kong, place of residence and even supporting facilities such as prostitution tools. The police said that the prostitution syndicate also charged up to half of the commission, which was "serious exploitation of these women."