Former escorts find new careers
By Zhang Xuanchen |
November 23, 2010, Tuesday
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NEARLY one third of Beijing's female escorts have been forced to take up a new career after the capital's six-month crackdown on prostitution closed hundreds of entertainment establishments and left them without a job.
A senior police officer, who took charge of controlling the entertaining industry in Beijing, told reporters that women who used to provide illegal escort services in venues like massage parlors, hairdressers, hotels and karaoke clubs had either gone back to their hometowns or taken other jobs, such as working in restaurants, after police took on the city's hidden sex industry starting on April 11.
An escort-turned-sales woman, identified by the alias Xiao Li, said she felt "more at ease than before," although she experienced a large fall in income. Xiao Li told Beijing Morning Post that she could earn almost 6,000 yuan (US$ 903) a month by accompanying customers in a KTV club, before it was suspended by police in April.
Now she has become a saleswoman in a clothes shop and earns 1,200 yuan a month. She said she managed to build a house for her parents in her hometown in Anhui Province with escort cash, but said she preferred to earn money legally.
However, the drive also drew some complaints as many owners of venues whose licenses had been suspended said they suffered great losses, although they were not involved in any illegal business. Li Jun, a veteran spa and sauna manager who has 20 years in the industry, has just finished changing a 20-million-yuan massage parlor into a grand hotel in Beijing's suburbs after police gave a red light to its sauna and massage service.
Police have suspended licenses for at least 35 venues for three to six months for being involved in illegal sex-related business.
A senior police officer, who took charge of controlling the entertaining industry in Beijing, told reporters that women who used to provide illegal escort services in venues like massage parlors, hairdressers, hotels and karaoke clubs had either gone back to their hometowns or taken other jobs, such as working in restaurants, after police took on the city's hidden sex industry starting on April 11.
An escort-turned-sales woman, identified by the alias Xiao Li, said she felt "more at ease than before," although she experienced a large fall in income. Xiao Li told Beijing Morning Post that she could earn almost 6,000 yuan (US$ 903) a month by accompanying customers in a KTV club, before it was suspended by police in April.
Now she has become a saleswoman in a clothes shop and earns 1,200 yuan a month. She said she managed to build a house for her parents in her hometown in Anhui Province with escort cash, but said she preferred to earn money legally.
However, the drive also drew some complaints as many owners of venues whose licenses had been suspended said they suffered great losses, although they were not involved in any illegal business. Li Jun, a veteran spa and sauna manager who has 20 years in the industry, has just finished changing a 20-million-yuan massage parlor into a grand hotel in Beijing's suburbs after police gave a red light to its sauna and massage service.
Police have suspended licenses for at least 35 venues for three to six months for being involved in illegal sex-related business.
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