In a dimly lit room on the fifth floor of an industrial building in Hong Kong, dressed women wait for customers who pay HK $500 (RM268)
An hour alone.
Condoms are well supplied, while the staff at Kwun Tong are prepared to meet every wish of the customer-although they play a passive role in litigation as plastic sex toys.
This is the sex and shopping of Hong Kong in the 21 st century, where the line between brothels and pre-retail attempts has become very vague.
Hong Kong's law on sex work means that prostitution is not illegal, but soliciting is illegal, just like running two or more brothels, living on prostitution, or controlling a woman for the purpose of prostitution
Kwun Tong's business is an adult entertainment store called Mary.
The hourly fee for playing one of these three dolls is part of a marketing campaign designed to encourage customers to buy a person
The size of the silicone doll is sold between HK $18,000 (RM9,655)and HK$30,000 (RM16,092).
A Hong Kong man, who just wanted to be identified as Rex, is a novice in sex trading, started the business after acting as a salesman and after accidentally discovered sex toys last year. The 30-year-
Earlier this year, old visited two adult exhibitions and spent HK $300,000 (RM161,000)
He started his new career two months ago.
Rex bought the dolls from a dealer in mainland China, one of the largest adult toy manufacturers in addition to Japan and the United States.
But the business is not that good because of the lack of promotion and his overhead costs, which he has set at HK $40,000 (RM21,455)
A month, some attention began.
"Things have improved in the past month," he said . "
"There was no business in the first month because I didn't get promoted . . . . . . Because I can't find the channel (
This adult service).
"There are other issues, mainly around the legal implications of a business that can be seen as a sex toy brothel.
Then hygiene.
Rex says he's done this.
The customer will be asked to wear a condom and the doll will be soaked in disinfectant for about 30 minutes after each meeting.
Although the police have told the Post that they are investigating the matter, and Albert Luk Wei-
Hong Lei said that although the store does not legally comply with the definition of the subsidiary body, it may violate the hotel and hotel accommodation regulations, which stipulate that the place providing accommodation must be licensed, the fee is no more than 28 days.
However, Rex thinks his business is more of a showroom or a gathering place, although he also says he is serving those who struggle with intimate issues.
"I am helping them to meet their spiritual needs," he said . ".
"Some men have been single for a long time and don't have many opportunities to meet women.
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"Someone might want to talk to people, but maybe they're not good at social skills, so they talk to dolls.
Not just sex.
"Angela woyong, family doctor and sex therapist
Ying says she doesn't think it's a problem for a person to use sex dolls as long as they can still have sex with others. Joseph Cho Man-
Kit, a lecturer at the gender research program at Chinese universities, said the business was a product of a culture of personal consumption and capitalism.
"These dolls serve many purposes and meet the needs and desires of different people," he said . ".
While brothels featuring silicone sex dolls and increasingly new robotic models are not new in Asia, when operators bring their businesses to the Western Hemisphere, they have sparked strong protests in Europe and the United States.
In Europe, the first such brothel was opened in Barcelona in last February.
A month later, after the landlord canceled the company's lease, it was forced to move to a place only known to the customer.
In January, a similar business was opened in Northeast England for £ 100 (RM538)
People can spend an hour in a room with a plastic partner.
A month later, it was forced to close after a neighbor complained.
The controversy over "unnatural, foreign" sex dolls erupted in France and the first sex doll brothel-which also had three rooms-opened in Paris in January.
Customers are charged 89 euros (RM423)
Spend an hour with a silicone sex doll
But critics accused it of encouraging rape and filed a motion to close the rape to the city's governing council on the 3 Th.
Brothels are still open.
In the United States, a Canadian sex doll company tried to open its first branch in Houston, Texas. as a result, the company's expansion plan was banned early last month.
The Houston City Council amended a regulation after a unanimous vote to ban companies from renting a "proposed device" to customers in the house.
Residents are still free to buy the equipment they use in their own homes.
Making sex dolls is a lucrative business in mainland China, but there are no reports of opening sex dolls brothels.
In last September, Touch, a sex toy retailer, launched a sex toy sharing service in Beijing, which is "girlfriend sharing" and plans to expand nationwide.
Dolls are advertised for short term availability
Regular company with a daily rent of 298 yuan (RM180)
After the user has paid a deposit of 8,000 yuan (RM4,832).
The plan triggered a heated debate and was suspended by the authorities only four days after the launch.
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