Taken over from the Photo Gallery
[QUOTE=Hk Dog (in the Photo Gallery)]There are 2 types of Wan Chai Bars. I will assume we are talking the 'freelance' type bars such as Neptunes/Fenwicks. The filipina's especially (Thais are more independant) generally pay an arranger to get them the visa and accomodation. Any day not working means they have less of a chance to pay back the agent. There is no 'bar fine' that I have ever heard of on the freelance scence.[/QUOTE]
Most likely if a Filipina, her manager assumes she has had some revenue and charge her their share.
It does not go to the bar, so it is no barfine. But I am sure she still had to pay, unless she is in HK on her own (usually they come on their own after the first or second trip when they have enough money for the ticket.
K-Pressure Report & Directions
K-Pressure, Hong Kong
Directions:
MTR (Metro) to Jordan stop. Take “Exit A” from station, turn right onto Jordan, take 2nd right onto Woosung Street (7-11 on corner), K-Pressure is 2nd building on left.
Landmarks:
You’ll know Woosong as there is a 7-11 on the corner with Jordan, next to this on the right on Woosong St. is the famous Pharmacy near K-Pressure (genuine Cialis for sale at reasonable prices, without prescription), and next to the Pharmacy (on the right), is the narrow entrance to K-Pressure. K-Pressure’s signs suck – it’s all in chinese characters with just an English letter K. Also when you go in the narrow hallway under the signs, K-Pressure entrance is in the back of the hallway, past the elevators, up the stairs. Don’ t take the elevators.
Upstairs, you’re greeted and ushered into a private room where they will explain the pricing: $390 to the house, plus $100 to the “hotel” upstairs that rents you the rooms. These are actually K-Pressure’s rooms. Like Terma rooms – small bed, shower next to it. Relatively clean actually. The ushers then bring the girls in 1 at a time, and leave them in the room with you for 2 minutes or so. I had to tell them (in very broken English) to hurry the fuck up and stop leaving me with hags for 2 minutes. Finally I got her to rotate through 4 girls before she told me I’d seen enough and should pick. I picked an OK looking Chinese gal.
Took me upstairs to pay the Hotel, and lead me into a room. Undressed me and into the shower. There was a large inflatable air mattress in the shower, which she put down diagonally on the floor (it barely fit). She had me lay down on it to soap me up and body slide. While the shower was clean, I had little interest in being close to the floor staring at the tiles so I quickly ended that.
Onto the bed for a light massage and BBBJ and onto business (covered).
Wasn’t sure if I was supposed to tip the girl or not. Ended up tipping her way too much – smallest bill I had was a $500 and I couldn’t communicate “change” with her. On the way out I asked the hostess if you’re supposed to tip, and she said no. *shrug*
If what you’re after is a convenient, clean quickie with 5s-7s, $500 isn’t too bad.
Note on the Pharmacy next to K-Pressure: It was $390 for a 4-pack of 20mg Cialis. They seemed to have all the right hologram seals on them. Real deal.
-Cartman in Asia
Jail for prostitute website operator
News Article - SCMP - 16th May
The operator of a popular online prostitutes directory that "encouraged prostitution on a large scale" was jailed for 18 months yesterday.
Chan Yuk-bun, 48, was sentenced in the District Court after earlier being convicted of conspiring to live off the earnings of prostitution.
The site's designer, Peterson Wong Tze-wing, 45, programmer Chan Chik-yin, 31, photo processor Andy Kwok, 31, and three photographers - Lam Yiu-chung, 35, Kwan Yiu-cheong, 30, and Lee Yiu-keung, 31 - were each ordered to perform 180 hours of community service. They were also fined HK$20,000.
The court had heard the seven made money by charging for adverts on the website, which they ran for three years until their arrest in May 2006.
It is the first conviction of staff involved in advertising sex workers on the internet.
Chan Yuk-bun had admitted the company made HK$90,000 to HK$100,000 a month by charging each prostitute HK$600.
His personal bank account showed HK$6.5 million in deposits during the years the site operated.
Deputy Judge David Dufton said a deterrent sentence was needed because such websites might allow syndicates to hide other criminal activity.
The company sent photographers to brothels to take pictures of the women, which were uploaded to the website and included in the adverts, which included the prostitutes' names, age, service offered, fees and addresses.
Judge Dufton accepted the prostitutes in this case were not subjected to control, influence or direction, unlike if they were involved with a pimp.
But he said the case was serious because it was "a sophisticated operation" and "encouraged prostitution on a large scale" for three years.
Also, despite a disclaimer, the website employed no measures to prevent access by the under-aged.
Hong Kong law does not prohibit prostitution. But it is illegal to solicit for business or advertise it using signs, or for third parties to derive income from someone's employment as a sex worker.
The judge rejected the defendants' plea of being ignorant of the law. He said anyone should know that involvement in vice-related activities risked prosecution.
Judge Dufton said advertising sex services was allowed under British law unless the prosecution proved those prostitutes were being controlled for gain. But he said Hong Kong was "reluctant" to hold a similar stance, given it was more conservative than a western country when it came to prostitution.
He said the website encouraged prostitution on a large scale and involved many women from the mainland, who were in the city illegally
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Just sharing my POV:
There are tons of websites providing these kind of services. Just hope that this sentecne will not give too much impact on their existens. It these websites where not availabe, it will definetly give us more difficulties to find the relevant information. But even this sector of the service industry need to keep up with the technology. Long gone is the day when you needed to buy a local news paper (you know which ones) and read the ads (text only) where little visual information of the girl was available (non existing). I just can not understand that it is ok to advert in the newspaper, where they also charge for these kind of ads (meaning they "earn"/profit from these sex workers?), but as soon you publish these kind of information, available and made much easier to a larger public, it become illegal?
No doubt these websites/services has changed the way of mongering and made our life a lot easier. They not only list the services provided, body measure, price, but most important and their largest advantage of them all, providing a picture of what you could expect of the goods!!! Although occasionaly these might not be 100% accurate. Anyway, I am glad to see many sites still are operating as usual, especially the one I consider the largest one.....Just had to quote: "Why we are the best?! Most accurate, most updated, largest database!!!"
Keep on happy mongering, Jazziton