Excellent comments by all and this was the kind of interesting discussion and debate I was hoping to have by posting the topic in the first place.

TAW - Do the LE in Hong Kong go after agents much? You do read about the occasional raid on buildings and KTV's but they seem to mainly be after girls overstaying their visas and I'm not sure how many agents(if any) get arrested and face fines/jail time

Supersheva - That's a shame. As if the girls are not being exploited enough, they are charged an additional make up fee as well!

Seaj - Great points. These are all aspects of this underworld business which we'll(perhaps thankfully) never be privy to

Heh. Well, I don't think given all the potential cons I WOULD give up my day job but it's an interesting thought nonetheless

On a side note, I was looking at the SO the other day and how nicely dressed up she was and all the admiring looks she gets when going about town with me and the thought crossed my mind about how much prettier she looks than a lot of the WG's in Hong Kong and in the DB. My mind then flashed back to a thread I read in the polls section about whether you would ever offer your wife of GF to other men for money. I remember how much debate that thread brought about by the few who were intrigued or turned on by the fantasy of doing something like that or even just seeing your wife or GF with someone else versus those who found the concept completely abhorrent. Of course everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion and ideas. I'm almost ashamed to admit that I do sometimes fantasize about that but I'm practically certain I would never go through with it not to mention that I'm 100% sure the GF would never agree to it

it is apparently a good laundering system

The advertising cost referenced in the Time Out article as said by a walkup girl is $1200 per month. I wonder if the cost is the same for HGs who are in database only for a week. And do they have to pay extra when coming back for another round later on, and using the same User ID number and pictures.

Skinny, thanks for the link to the article. It was surprisingly thorough and detailed. It didn't list a date of publication but I assume this was a fairly recently article?

I'd have to agree with the statement in this case that "no publicity is good publicity"

Also, after reading the article, I think the best job to have may be sex141 senior staff photographer! Be paid(however nominal the fee) to photograph nude women provocatively, get tips from the girls and/or sexual favours...holy crap