After an extensive report done by China most watched TV channel; CCTV, police trooped out in their thouusands and carried out a major crackdown on the sex trade in China’s ‘sin city’ of Dongguan as the country tries to get to grips with its HIV problem.
China Central Television (CCTV), aired a half-hour report on Sunday chronicling what appeared to be extensive and open prostitution in five towns across Dongguan and secretly shot footage showed scantily clad women parading on a stage and managers of venues speaking openly about prostitution services.
The CCTV report was widely watched across China and followed with interest and widely commented on on social media.
Prostitution was outlawed in China after the Communist revolution in 1949, but after economic reforms three decades ago it returned with a vengeance.
Since then the trade has been blamed for helping fuel a rise in HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases that is believed to have reached epidemic proportions since the 90s. During the raid, over a hundred prostitutes were arrested and close to 15 sex centres were shut down.
China authorities said more than 2,700 sex workers was infected with the dreaded virus as detected by their last month research.
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