To hkgent:
in HK, it's Common Law, Form over Substance,
and it states what is authorised (ladies can do whatever they want with their body as "entrepreneurs")
and what is not authorized like for instance when a bar is somewhere perceived to ...facilitate ...solicitation...
This is why is some places you cannot walk out ANYMORE with 3 girls that you FOUND ONSITE!
That was not MY idea!.
Of course, no problem (just
) if you WALK IN with 3 141 PROS. Perfectly legal if all used LeaveHomeStealth and have vaccinted records when tables were ok for 4. QED.
Then in bars, there is also the problem of the immigration status of the girls as they may "Breach their condition of stay",
i.e. "tourists" are not supposed to become "local entrepreneurs" and DH helpers neither!
Some "married" Engli$h guy$, who left HK but retained the Right To Land, and got HKID.
That said I think police and immigration are perfectly aware that all this DOES EXIST...and it attracts a lot of interest to HK as a financial center,
so they just try to KEEP THINGS UNDER CONTROL!
Out of control is only OK during ...Rugby's 7th
When it is becoming way too open and obvious, they have to strike to get the balance right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfiISFiozg8
When Columbian girls came in drove with their male bosses waiting nearby
, that was way beyond tolerance...and it ended fast.
When you see security guys with lights looking on the floor of a bar...for drugs...then you know there is a problem....and guess what a bit later the bar
was shut down for ~6 month.
For now, the only thing messy in that respect in Wanchai is when (a year ago) some Phils ladies are so desperated that they fight to death for
...HK$500 on the pavement outside a bar with 4 bouncers trying to stop the mess.