An article from July 2010, seems like nothing has changed much since that !


China: No more “shame parades”                                                                                                                  
Police are ordered to refrain from shackling prostitutes and leading them through the crowded streets                                                                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Police officers watch over prostitutes during a public parade in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province, November 29, 2006. China has ordered an investigation into a police-organised parade of 100 prostitutes and their clients in the southern city of Shenzhen, Hong Kong newspapers reported on Wednesday. Picture taken November 29, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA) (Credit: © China Daily China Daily Inform)

Gone are the days of shackling Chinese prostitutes and parading them around in public. So too are the Internet postings of sex workers’ mug shots and home addresses. The Ministry of Public Security has demanded a stop to the so-called “shame parades,” the New York Times reports, and called for the enforcement of laws in a ”rational, calm and civilized manner.”

How rational, calm and civilized.
Don’t give the Ministry too much credit, though. The policy change comes only after tremendous public outrage, much of it expressed in online forums, in response to recent public shamings. The Times reports:

Last October, the police in Henan Province took to the Internet, posting photographs of women suspected of being prostitutes. Other cities have been publishing the names and addresses of convicted sex workers and those of their clients. The most widely circulated images, taken this month in the southern city of Dongguan, included young women roped together and paraded barefoot through crowded city streets.

The police denied the latter was a humiliation tactic and called it part of an investigation — into what, the cruelty of crowds? No matter, because the public didn’t buy it and the resulting outrage was strong enough to allegedly reverse the established tradition of publicly shaming criminals. So for now, at least, sex workers will not be forced to walk the streets in shackles — and that, well that’s … something.

I think it's more than a reaction to public outcry

it's also common-sense

after all

for those who really are sex-workers it's free publicity

[OK perhaps I have to add that I wouldn't wish a public parade on anybody ... but for sure I can see some head-scratching at the contradiction inherent in turning a public institution and the local news media into the off-line equivalent of this website!!]

WOT????
Free Publicity??

Even for you, this statement is quite a bit beyond unkind!

I'd think that NO WG, whether professional/semi-professional or whatever - would want to let their "professional" life be exposed to their family/friends etc.

SEAJ

Beijing just paraded 71 people on Feb 10 this year. It's from the Mao era of parading and embarrassing people of their crimes.  One mommie got 14 years.

See my thread of the story.

http://forum.sex141.com/eforum/v ... &extra=page%3D1

[ Last edited by  Weelock at 24-2-2012 17:10 ]

that is quite unfortunate, this is a living for some people. they don't necessarily deserve this type of treatment.

almost seems like someone or some group needed to prove something