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Crackdown forces sex workers to change jobs
By Zhang Xuanchen |
November 22, 2010, Monday
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NEARLY one third of Beijing's female escorts were forced to change career after the capital's six-month clampdown on prostitution closed hundreds of entertainment venues and left them jobless.
A senior police officer who oversees the entertainment industry in Beijing told reporters that women who provided illegal escorting service for customers in venues like massage parlors, hairdressers, hotels and karaoke clubs had either gone back home or picked up other jobs such as waitress after police waged a war on covert sex business on April 11.
An escort-turned saleswoman, identified as Xiao Li, said she felt "more at ease than before" although she earned much less. She told Beijing Morning Post that she was paid almost 6,000 yuan (US$903) a month by a KTV club before it was shut by police in April. She said she saved nearly 100,000 yuan after two years in the club and helped her parents in Anhui Province to build a new house.
She now earns 1,200 yuan a month as a saleswoman in a clothes shop.
A senior police officer who oversees the entertainment industry in Beijing told reporters that women who provided illegal escorting service for customers in venues like massage parlors, hairdressers, hotels and karaoke clubs had either gone back home or picked up other jobs such as waitress after police waged a war on covert sex business on April 11.
An escort-turned saleswoman, identified as Xiao Li, said she felt "more at ease than before" although she earned much less. She told Beijing Morning Post that she was paid almost 6,000 yuan (US$903) a month by a KTV club before it was shut by police in April. She said she saved nearly 100,000 yuan after two years in the club and helped her parents in Anhui Province to build a new house.
She now earns 1,200 yuan a month as a saleswoman in a clothes shop.
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