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Prostitution in Hong Kong is itself legal, but organised prostitution is illegal, as there are laws against keeping a vice establishment, causing or procuring another to be a prostitute, living on the prostitution of others, or public solicitation.〔United States Department of State, ("2008 Human Rights Report: China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau)" ), Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 25 February 2009〕 The most visible public venues for sex workers in Hong Kong, especially for tourists, are massage parlours and the so-called "Japanese style night clubs". However, most of the commercial sex worker industry consists of women working in small, usually one room apartments, usually referred to as "one-woman brothels", the equivalent of the "walk-up brothel" in the United Kingdom. They advertise for clients through the Internet and local classifieds. Most popular mainstream newspapers will carry such classifieds with a brothel guides as an insert within racing form guides. Yellow neon advertising boxes were used to advertise sexual services to such an extent that "yellow" (黃) became synonymous with prostitution. The laws of Hong Kong currently allow classified ads for prostitution and websites〔(Internet Pimps in Hong Kong )〕 that allow clients to make appointments with prostitutes. ==History== Population census in 1865 and 1866 recorded 81 and 134 "Chinese brothel keepers". The 1874 Annual Report of the Colonial Surgeon reported that there were "123 licensed Chinese brothels, containing 1,358 prostitutes". From 1879 to 1932, prostitution was legal and regulated, and prostitutes were required to register for licenses, pay tax, and have regular health examination. Prostitution boomed in the districts of Sai Ying Pun, Wan Chai, Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei. In 1930 Hong Kong, with a population of 1.6 million, boasted 200 legal brothels with over 7,000 licensed prostitutes.〔Yang, 52.〕 But in 1932, the Hong Kong government issued a ban on prostitution and three years later licensed prostitution ended. From that time on, prostitution was permitted within strict limits while prohibiting a whole host of activities surrounding prostitution, such as soliciting for sex and living off "immoral earnings" (working as a pimp).〔Yang, 53.〕 It has also attracted prostitutes from other countries. Most of them have come from Southeast Asia, and even from Europe and the United States.〔Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Volume 1, By Melissa Hope Ditmore, Page 213 ()〕 Although organised prostitution is illegal, the industry had always been under the influence of triads to recruit economically disadvantaged women who otherwise would never enter the profession voluntarily. Until the 1980s, most Hong Kong underground sex establishments were run by gangsters.〔Yang, 57.〕 During the 1990s, however, Hong Kong saw a massive shift in the form of prostitution. There was an influx of "northern girls" () from mainland China who worked as prostitutes illegally in Hong Kong on their short tourist visas;〔Yang, 145.〕 local voluntary prostitutes also increased dramatically in number. As a result, gangsters could no longer make a profit by coercion and their controlling power declined.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prostitution in Hong Kong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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