China’s Anti-prostitution Campaign
From Yahoo News:
China targets prostitution
"Chinese police have launched a nationwide "strike-hard" campaign against prostitution that will last until the 60th anniversary of communist rule on October 1, state press have reported.
The campaign will target providers of paid sex services at night clubs, bathhouses, barber shops and hotels, and will seek to crack down on those that force women into prostitution, the Global Times reported.
"From now until the end of September we must embark on a special nationwide campaign to strike at the criminal activities of organising and forcing women into prostitution," Xinhua news agency quoted Vice Minister of Police Zhang Xinfeng as saying.
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In recent years, Chinese police have cracked up to 140,000 cases of prostitution a year, annually arresting about 250,000 sex industry workers, Xinhua said.
"But no matter how you strike at prostitution it cannot be defeated, especially recently organised and forced prostitution that has become increasingly common," the Xinhua report said."
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I agree with that quote. No matter how much prostitution is criminalized and prostitutes punished it won't go away. There's a need for this type of sex work and prostitutes provide a valuable service to society.