Chapter 72 Dare to approach the "red light district"?

Hong Kong does not have a red light district. Many mainlanders would turn their eyes like lights when they heard me say this. They didn’t believe it at all, and didn’t understand: “Isn’t Hong Kong a capitalist society? How can there be no pornography, gambling, and drugs there? There is no legal sex industry.” ? I said really no, the Hong Kong government not only does not allow the legal existence of red light districts, but also clears up some "red light districts" with quotation marks every three days, and searches them every five days. This is the same attitude as the mainland, except that Hong Kong's underground "red light districts" "But more and more there is a stubborn scene of "wildfires are endless, and spring breeze blows again".

This is the end. After talking for a long time, Hong Kong still cannot eliminate the "human flesh business". The "human flesh business" cannot be eradicated in Hong Kong, and "secret prostitution" is also a common existence in any place in the world so far.If I were to specifically introduce Hong Kong's "quote-marked" pornographic venues, Hong Kong's Kowloon, Yau Ma Tei, and Mong Kok can be said to be the most active places in the underground "red light district". Among them, Bo Lan Street is just an ordinary street during the day, without any special But at night, the light boxes will light up one after another, with bold and clear words: "Beigu 300", "Passionate Mara 260", "Russian Girl 600", many of which reflect prostitutes and clients Movies are shot here.Some reporters used words like this to describe the liveliness of the scene: "The red and yellow light boxes began to look like night stars twinkling in the night, spreading from here to Shandong Street, Shanghai Street, Nailson Road, Gansu Street, Gansu Street, etc. Fang Street...At the same time, women in black crop tops began to stroll hurriedly on the street in twos and threes. Old-fashioned foundation and rouge were painted on their faces. It is not clear how beautiful they are, but all of them have raised the money-making tools .So when they filed out with their breasts and half naked, the scene was turbulent and spectacular..."

After I came to Hong Kong, I wanted to visit "Bo Lan Street" several times, but in the end I couldn't find a guide because I couldn't ask my friends. Later, I heard that there is also a Locke Road on Hong Kong Island, which is also a similar place with erotic imagination. Just hold the camera and watch carefully.But when I got to the front, my eyes followed the footsteps and swept through the dimly lit bars, dance halls, nightclubs, and steam baths one by one. I especially saw groups of "lady" in bunts crowded in front of the narrow door. I still dare not get close, let alone take out the camera to take pictures.If my mentality at that time was to be compared with those "ladies" who were calm and composed, I seemed even more irrational and confident.Why?Can't tell.Those "ladies" I asked myself over and over again: "Are they really 'chickens'?"However, there is no conclusion. The Hong Kong government controls public prostitution, but this society has a special "tolerance" that allows "one phoenix on the first floor" to exist legally.What is "One Phoenix on the First Floor"?As long as a prostitute does not openly participate in organized collective prostitution, she does not break the law no matter what method she uses to bring customers home, and no matter how she "does things" at home.Their homes, commonly known as "Phoenix Buildings", are invisible from the outside, and some of them are on the floors of residential apartments.For example, once I visited a "cage house" in Kowloon. In an old tenement building, there was a sign on the wall "Look for chickens upstairs", presumably there is a phoenix nest upstairs.

Due to different cultures and different levels of openness, it is true that Hong Kong society should be more accustomed to the sense of freedom of sexual release than mainland China.In Hong Kong, you can easily find sex magazines and sex shops (adult shops) in the depths of the streets and alleys.However, Hong Kong people, in terms of the sexual concepts and morals of ordinary citizens, I feel that in this regard, their degree of conservativeness is actually more than that of the mainland.Self-cleaning people abound. However, Hong Kong people don't like "promiscuous sex". Is their thinking rigid and conservative?Nor is it.

Not long ago, in order to prevent the prostitution industry from being forced to go underground due to illegality and causing greater loss of control by the police, the government decided to openly set up a red light district, allowing "ladies" to operate pornographic businesses in specific areas with restrictions.As soon as the news that "the government approved the legalization of prostitution" came out, Hong Kong people did not boo it all. On the contrary, in order to discuss the sex trade and its rationality and the needs of humanity, the Hong Kong police force has reportedly sent a report to the "red light district" Countries such as the Netherlands and Singapore openly went to "learn Buddhist scriptures".Relevant professionals from the Hong Kong Women’s Sexual Violence Concern Association even agree that Hong Kong should also set up a “red light district” and at the same time propose an “alternative red light district” so that the government can regulate prostitutes and stipulate that pornographic places can only be opened in commercial buildings. At least it won't disturb the residents in the house...

Currently in the world, the Dutch port city of Amsterdam has always allowed the legal "red light district" services. Tourists walk into the famous alleys and can see behind the glass windows, the prostitutes are almost undressed without shame. , Enthusiastically soliciting business from men, people are used to it, and there is no need to spit.Some super "rational" people even think that if human sexual needs are always unstoppable, why can't women and even men's volunteers treat their bodies as commodities?How is this fundamentally different from a writer writing, an artist painting a painting and then selling it on the market?Some sociologists pointed out that legal sex trade can balance social unrest and redistribution of interests, and quell the greater insult and violence that rape brings to women.Instead of being blocked and forbidden, it is better to face this problem directly, bravely adopt a way of persuasion, set up a red light district, and recognize the legal status of prostitutes...

Hong Kong has always been a metropolis integrating East and West. The acceptability, exclusion, tolerance and self-sufficiency of this society have already withstood the test of hundreds of years of history. Most Hong Kong people still do not want the government to set up a legal "red light district" in the SAR, but they think that prostitution sometimes degrades public morals if it does not hinder others and does not make a big splash. In a free economy, the money transactions between prostitutes and customers reflect the same A relationship of equality and voluntariness, then it doesn't matter if everyone turns a blind eye.This attitude, I think, may be one of the reasons for public opinion that although there is no legal red-light district in Hong Kong, it is not difficult to find "one phoenix on the first floor"?