Lourge LBN: Free Sex for Hong Kong Cops Draws Fire

[Noordam]

AP NEWS


November 11, 2003
Free Sex for Hong Kong Cops Draws Fire
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 8:20 p.m. ET

HONG KONG (AP) -- Hong Kong's top police spokesman says it's OK for undercover cops to get certain sexual favors from prostitutes during investigations aimed at cracking down on solicitation, but has declined to comment on allegations some officers are demanding sex for free.

Chief Superintendent Tang How-kong was responding to a growing furor over allegations that some police were using their positions to demand free services from prostitutes in Hong Kong, where prostitution is legal but brothels and solicitation are not.

....more at article..... :evilgrin:

[ProudGerman]

1. excuse my ignorance

But if brothels and solicitation are illegal, how is prostitution legal? I'm completely naive about this "industry", but with no brothels and no solicitation, how does a prostitute go about selling her services?

[dfong63]

2. one can imagine many scenarios

... that are neither a brothel nor solicitation.

man goes to bar, asks bartender where to get some action. bartender says, "Ask that lady wearing the fur coat at the end of the bar." or maybe, just hands man a piece of paper with a phone number on it.

or how about this. scantily clad woman loiters in seedy part of town. man drives up in car, rolls down his window, and says, "Hey baby, how about a date?"

man goes to a massage parlor. halfway thru his session, he's feeling good and asks the bodyworker, "Do you do anything extra?"

one can imagine many scenarios.

[secretshopper]

3. It's probably like the Canadian law

A woman selling her time and companionship to a man, or a man doing the same, is OK. But representing someone else (pimping or madaming) is illegal. Canada calls brothels "Bawdy Houses" in a quaint throwback phrase.

Basically it accepts that an individual can do with his or her time what he or she wants, but when you profit from someone else's effort in the sex trade, that's not right.

How do they do it? Same way they always have, I bet... "You in town long?" or "Can I buy you a drink?" or an ad on the internet

Frankly, it's a surprisingly liberated attitude, and it still respects that brothels and pimps are notoriously bad at watching out for their employees safety and rights.

Sadly, cops do this all the time. Vice doesn't have a conviction in most jurisdictions in the US unless there is contact, so "why not let her finish, then I'll bust her..." It creeps me out, especially given that the girls thus entrapped usually get into the trade because they are desperate. They then become the prey of horny, unscrupulous cops.

Vice has become so creepy that some jurisdictions have eliminated the vice department entirely.

Secret Shopper
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