Compensated Dating Report on SCMP
Hot off the last SA news story, SCMP reports on Seeking Arrangements. Here is an excerpt, link to the full article below...
It is a typical picture of modern dating in Hong Kong; they meet on the internet, head to the movies and then to dinner. The small talk begins, the drinks flow and laughter follows. She is petite, young and pretty; he is older, more affluent, and happy to shower her with gifts.
But there is a twist to this date: the woman (often still a girl) is being paid up to HK$1,000 an hour for her company. And if they wake up together tomorrow morning she can expect a bonus payment.
Yet this is not prostitution – not, at least, in the minds of the two people involved. Welcome to the legally shady world of “compensated dating”, an offshoot of internet dating that criminologists say peaks in Hong Kong this time of year, as the holiday period fuels loneliness in some troubled souls and a desperate need for cash in others.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/2178909/child-sex-abuse-compensated-dating-christmas-trends-hong-kong-would | |
