In Guangxi, Nanning police recently arrested 14 "girls" who were patrolling the streets looking for customers, and discovered all of them were actually men. more ›

Two days ago, we heard about Chinese women getting trafficked into Ghana as prostitutes to service expatriates working in the country. Today, Shanghai Daily tells us of a transnational police action which has seen a prostitution ring busted in Angola and ringleaders captured in China: more ›

Ghana's Citi News reports that Chinese women are being trafficked into Ghana to service expatriates working in the country, according to the Accra-based non-governmental organisation Enslavement Protection Alliance West Africa. more ›

As if we needed further proof that on the internet, all men are men, all women are men, and all children are FBI agents, a famous 22-year-old prostitute who blogged her sexacapades on Sina Weibo has turned out to be a 31-year-old married man living in Hangzhou. more ›

Recently, the Chinese internet went abuzz with an allegedly smuggled video (watch after the jump) showing one not particularly famous singer, Ma Ruila (马睿菈) prostituting herself. While it's probably nothing new that some small-time acts earn money on the side doing titilatting work, Ma also managed to allege that A-listers could be bought as well, including a "Bingbing" who would totally do you for the low price of 500,000rmb. more ›

Liu Shaowu (刘绍武), director of the security management bureau under the Ministry of Public Security, recently emphasised to public security bureaus nationwide the importance of respect as a key touchstone in the crackdown against vice and prostitution. Sex workers, he said, may not be subject to verbal and physical abuse, discrimination and shaming by public parades. He also suggested that the public security bureau would henceforth no longer call prostitutes「卖淫女」(lit. "women who sell vice"), and encourage the use of the term「失足妇女」(lit. "women who have lost their way"). The statement sparked off a flurry of debate in the public, but the ministry's move has received a thumbs up from notable feminist and sexologist Li Yinhe (李银河). Here is our translation of her latest blogpost: more ›

Business people can find lessons everywhere - including in China's management of its illegal sex industry! According to Shaun Rein at Forbes, its on-and-off prosecution of everything from pornography to prostitutes teaches us this: "understanding the relationship, differences and interplay between the central and local governments is critical." Just because a local government's allowing you to bend the rules doesn't mean the central government thinks it's okay - and that local gov. favor may one day come back and smack you in the face. Not that you needed sex workers to tell you that. more ›

Chilling news from AFP:

MORE than half of Beijing's prostitutes do not use condoms despite sexual transmission having replaced drug use as the most common infection route for HIV, state media said on Tuesday. more ›

A few years ago, locally-based writer and publisher Graham Earnshaw began releasing a series of out-of-print books about China pre-1949 and, more specifically, the interactions between foreigners and locals during that period (a copy of Carl Crow's Foreign Devil's in the Flowery Kingdom which made to Shanghaiist was particularly excellent). These books were extensions of an earlier web-based project, the Tales of Old China website, which has a remarkably extensive library and picture database cataloging the rich and fascinating colonial history of China. more ›

A Shanghainese woman by the name of Wang Min has been charged with operating brothels that fronted as bars in the wealthier parts of the Afghan capital, Kabul, and bringing unemployed women, all past 40 years of age, from Chongqing to work at the bars. She was sentenced to 11 years in jail and her accomplice six years. The judgement was meted out in China after the pair were extradited back home earlier this year. [Source] more ›