http://www.paranoia.com/faq/prostitution/Hong-Kong.html (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)Legal Situation: Prostitution is illegal.
The age of consent: conficting reports, ranging from 13 over 16 to 18. Take your pick.
Finding prostitutes
Abstract: I found four kinds of prostitution in Hong Kong:
Topless bar "Big Apple" on the main street in Kowloon near the southernmost subway station: no cover charge, beer HK$ 50, ugly woman and awful begging for a drink (which runs HK$ 110). One hour talking with the topless woman is HK$ 300. NOT recommended.
You just go upstairs any house with a chinese only light advertisement. They have rooms with toilet/bath, TV and bed. You tell the guy/lady at the entrance what/what country/what style you prefer and after 20-30 minutes waiting and watching boring american hard core movies a girls shows up. Send her back if you do not like her at all. Shower (together, if you are able to arrange that), blowjob, fucking. It was very fast and she showed too much that she did not like it. My friend was very disappointed with his girl. HK$500 are paid when you leave.
Prostitute racket run by island PSB unit [Philp Manns] A unit of the Zhuhai Public Security Bureau (PSB) is running a large vice ring catering for HK clients, an Eastern Express investigation has found. The border patrol division, through its Zhuhai-registered company, Beautiful Meetings Tourism Development Company, has established several illegal points of entry to the [chinese] mainland and is taking informal "visa fees" from visitors from the territory, as well as commissions from thousands of prostitutes servicing affluent HK clients. On the island of Gwai Shan and Ding Ling, several kilometers off southern Lantau [island that belongs to HK], PSB officers man makeshift "immigration" huts charging visitors $25 for a one-day "permit". Visitors do not require formal visas or even passports, instead registering their HK identity card numbers on arrival to ensure they depart the island that day. The company also owns several upmarket villas which serve as brothels on Ling Ding. A PSB officer on the island confirmed that the company was owned by the border patrol unit and said authorization for any new business must be sought from his superior officer in Gwai Shan. Visitors from HK usually charter speedboats from the outlying islands of Cheung Chau and Lantau, or board bigger vessels making regular trips from Aberdeen, usually on Saturday evenings. For $100 she will do anything - except tell you her real name. She is a Ling Ding girl, one of hundreds of northern Chinese prostitutes servicing HK clients on an island south of Cheung Chau [which belongs to HK]. Like most of them she will tell you she is 20 years old, but her phusique gives the lie to the claim. She is 16 at best, 12 or 13 at worst. If you want something younger, or older, tell one of the dozens of pimps milling around the streets or see the PSB officer at the pier. This is China's new frontier and anything can be arranged for a price. Like their counterparts elsewhere in the world, the girls give themselves working names, There are more than a few Candys and dozens named after flowers. There are no solo operators -- no street walkers. It is not allowed. Instead the girls work out of either karoke lounges or, more commonly, "barber shops". Karaoke lounges have the usual bar, video screen and couches. A HK visitor is often on the microphone, drunkenly serenading his love of the hour. Clients are invited to "talk with a girl" but with the prostitutes often speaking no Cantonese, and never English, the conversation swiftly degenerates into scribbling figures on a bar mat. The next stop is the room upstairs. In barber shops the visitors are asked if they want a massage or a shampoo. They do not cut hair. [...]
Schoolgirls stay clear of summer vice [by Stella Lee] Police believe they have prevented the employment of underage girls in karaoke bars during the school holidays despite the shelving of plans for tougher regulations to control the vice establishments. Social workers strongly opposed the shelving of the plan proposed 1993 as they said they still had young clients working part-time in karaoke bars, singing and providing sexual services to customers. Hundreds of girls, some as young as 12, were arrested in karaoke bars in Mongkok and Yau Tsim districts during the summer holidays 1993 and 1994. But the number shrank to none this summer after 31 karaoke bars which could not cope with police raids and prosecutions closed one after the other. A Security Branch spokesman said the Fight Crime Committee had recently "advised that the licensing option for the control of karaoke establishments should not be pursued for the time being". It said it was because the number of underage girls working in dubious karaoke establishments decreased by almost 50 per cent in 1994 and there were indications that the karaoke craze was beginning to fade. The committee also felt that a licensing scheme was expensive to administer and not cost-effective in controlling vice activities. A Fight Crime Committee member and prospective legislator, James To Kun-sun, and Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service's outreach service division supervisor, Philip Can Shiu-kan, strongly opposed the shelving of the proposal. Mr. Chan said his colleagues still had young clients working part-time in karaoke bars. The legal loophole is still there. If it is not plugged, the problem can't be rooted out," Mr Chan said.M.
======================================================================= Date: 27 Apr 1995 16:42:32 GMT All prostitution in Hong Kong was moved from the ground level to the upper floors, also any signs in English were outlawed. Your friend will have to discover the Chinese Characters for 'Dance Hall' or 'Fun Palace'...look for the highest signs on the building and climb a lot of stairs. Hong Kong is not user friendly for prostitutes. Where O where is Suzy Wong ? ======================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 16:50:32 UTC Unless he is VERY rich, what he can afford in HK he won't like, and what he will like he can't afford. He's better off going to ShenZhen or Guangzhou and scoping the disco's or hotel bars. He may even be able to get freebie's at the discos, if he's not too butt ugly. ======================================================================== Date: 1 May 1995 04:30:11 -0400 Go to the Wanchai District (yep, the home of "suzie wong")..They have a number of topless clubs there with women who are available for a (high) price. By the way, "topless' in Wanchai means the barmaids and the hostesses are topless, not what you are used to stateside. If your friend has never been to an Asian Hostess bar, tell him to take an old asian hand with him, otherwise he will run up a couple of hundred bar bill before he knows what's happening...It is not 'pay as you go', they give you a bill when you leave, and you can easily run up a 100 -200 bar tab before you even know what's happening. Trust me: Their is no arguing with the management when the bill is presented... If your friend knows the ropes, it will run him about $500 to get a girl into bed. If he doesn't, he'll spend that amount and wind up back in his hotel alone, jacking off. Like someone who obviously knows what he's talking about already told you, in HKT what you want you probably can't afford, and what you can afford you probably don't want. Suggestion: Tell your buddy to do what most expats in HKT do...take a Cathy Pacific flight to Manila to get laid..Believe it or not, you can fly roundtrip from HKT to MNL, get a 3-star hotel and a girl from the Firehouse (in Pasay City nowadays) for the night for LESS then what you will pay for a quickie in HKT. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 09:48:30 UTC i don't know why i'm bothering to do this... but everytime i see references to prostitution in hong kong i realize that they are written either by people who came here as tourists or some expat who doesn't speak chinese and so never really tried exploring what's available. here, then, is my contribution: indeed, wanchai is prohibitively expensive - designed to make money off inexperienced tourists and the periodic boatload of horny navy guys that pass through town. and while one of your contributors reports success at a downtown massage parlour - most of these (called health clubs or saunas) are, in fact, legitimate. you pay for a massage, often in a room along with other men. there's no telling from outside which sauna or health club will be willing to bend the rules. there is an outlet in hong kong, however. it is in a place called mong kok, a short subway ride from the tourist center of tsim sha tsui on kowloon - the mainland side of hong kong harbor. mong kok is a maze of streets festooned with brightly lit signs advertising karaoke clubs and the like - almost all in chinese. forget the karaoke clubs, which are expensive and usually turn foreigners away at the door anyway. look for signs that don't say karaoke, but are clearly establishments of entertainment, most often up one or two flights of dark, grimy stairs. venturing up to find out what's inside takes some nerve, but not much - particularly after the first time. nor does it require speaking chinese. just steel your nerves and mount those stairs. if the first place isn't what you expect, try again, and i guarantee within one or two attempts you will stumble into a brothel at which everything is understood and nothing need be said. the price is usually HK$300 to HK$500 for either a mainland chinese or filipina. you'll be left to wait in a cubicle or room, sometimes as long as 20 minutes, until the girl arrives. when she does it's down to business and no money changes hands. you don't pay the girl - she won't even expect a tip - but pay at the door as you leave. HK$300 is equal to about US$39, by the way. the girls vary from quite attractive to plain. if you don't like what they deliver you can ask for someone new. and if you don't like the scene, take a HK$145, 45 minute ferry ride to neighbor- ing macau where there are plenty of thai brothels. expect to spend at least US$100 there, however. ========================================================================== Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:57:10 UTC And Mongkok is not ruled by Trial. It is ruled by Urban Council. I think you got the wrong meaning from Eastern Express, Augest 1995. I think there are some shops that are ruled by Trial, not the whole place. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:05:13 UTC May 1995 - Sept 1995 Hong Kong (Exchange rate= US$1 = HK$7.7) My frequent trips to HK have allowed me to try different places. In HK, you will notice the price their society has to pay for affluence. Every one seems to be soooooo busy! This holds true to their flesh trade. Mind you, prostitution is illegal in HK! So, on we go! On my first night there, I decided to try out the Escort services. HK must have one of the most expensive escort prices in the world! Anyway, calling an escort service will only get you the agency rate, about HK$700-HK$1000 (US91-US130). This is "just for companionship." The agency will never quote you the price for the extras. This is the hard part, since you have no idea how much it will cost beforehand. However, the agency AND the girl will take credit cards. In my case, the girl (a Spaniard) asked for HK$4000, and when I balked, she lowered it to HK$3000. Finally, I gave her HK$2000 plus US$100. She was very hurried, and couldn't wait to finish me off. All in all, I rate it as average. My second nite, I went to Wanchai, to a strip called Lockhart Road. Here, it is a whole strip of bars. It is quite deserted these days, as business is not too good. A beer costs HK$45 and the bars have mostly Filipino, Thai, and some of them, local Chinese and foreign girls (German and UK). Taking these girls out the normal way (paying bar fine and all) will cost you about HK$3000 (very expensive.) What you can do is have these girls talk to you by buying them a drink, and asking them out afterwards when the bar closes. Since business is bad, they will not have much income for the night anyway, so you can have them come to your hotel for about HK$1000, quite reasonable. The last place you can go to is Mong Kok, on the Kowloon side. Here, a 20 minute full service (very rush) is about HK$350 (US$45). Just look for buildings with Chinese plastic lights with no English writings. Go to the second floor. Then they know what you are there for.
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