To find out, Yeeshan Yang spent a year gaining the trust of the city's sex workers, interviewing 50 hookers, hostesses, toy boys, transsexual prostitutes, mama-sans and brothel owners. How do local prostitutes deal with the ruthless competition posed by an endless supply of girls from mainland China? Business appears to be booming – but there are hungry newcomers to this underground economy. Even mainstream newspapers engage pimps as columnists. Hong Kong has a bewildering range of sex businesses offering services to suit all imaginable tastes: from the glitzy nightclubs of Tsim Sha Tsui East, through the saunas, karaoke lounges and one-woman brothels of Mong Kok, to the streets and short-time hotels of Sham Shui Po.Ĭhinese-language sex magazines print reviews of individual prostitutes, and promote an ever-widening array of bizarre sexual practices.
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