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A woman from Xianning Abel Aguilar Colombia Camiseta , Hubei Province, who is a sex worker in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province shows her workplace to a photographer in 2009. Photo: CFP
"No doing it, neither here or outside, just massage, is that fine?" a masseuse at a parlor on a bustling Beijing street close to the city's Central Business District told one of her clients Wednesday night.
"Massage is fine Carlos Bacca Colombia Camiseta , 200 yuan ($31), but no sex, not before things cool down outside," added the woman. Her experienced 30-something client told the Global Times that those masseuses are highly alert when anti-sex trade campaigns are high on the police agenda.
Beijing police officers reached by the Global Times said that they have been enhancing the crackdown on sex work since a high-profile incident in which a hotel guest was attacked by a man who thought she was working for a rival prostitution ring in early April.
The death of a 29-year-old man, who was killed during a police raid that targeted the customers of a "foot spa" in a Beijing neighborhood on Saturday, has further highlighted this campaign.
However Carlos Sanchez Moreno Colombia Camiseta , despite government efforts against sex work in hotels, karaoke clubs, hair salons or massage parlors, the trade seems to be still thriving.
National drive
China's government has been taking a firm stand against the sex trade, and its efforts to eradicate it started shortly after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. In December 1949, 244 brothels were shut down in Beijing by the new regime.
In a 2010 campaign Wilmar Barrios Colombia Camiseta , Beijing police raided 35 establishments that allegedly provided adult entertainment including the nightclub Heaven and Earth.
The number of suspects detained, arrested or investigated on sex work charges was at its highest from 1984 to 1991, with over 620,000 people involved during this period, Phoenix Weekly reported in 2014.
However, despite the government's call to crush the industry Stefan Medina Colombia Camiseta , some turn a blind eye, said Pan Suiming, a sexologist from Renmin University of China who studied the industry for decades.
Some officers barely implement the drive out of sympathy for those who are forced to making a living from selling their bodies, and sometime the local authorities are unwilling to push against the sex trade too hard out of fear the local economy might suffer, said Pan.
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