ABSTRACT
This chapter illuminates the complex relationship between the legislation and client-perpetrated violence against female sex workers. The Hong Kong government also operates a stratified work visa system for migrant sex workers. However, Hong Kong, the field site of the present study and a Special Administrative Region of China, deviated from this pattern. While many mainland Chinese women are working illegally, the Philippine workers obtain the, so-called, entertainment visa' that allows them to work legally in dance bars. The sex industry in Hong Kong is a highly stratified field by setting, locality, clientele and fees, age, ethnicity and migration status of the workers. Analysis of the 2006/2007 NGO survey clearly showed stratification in sex workers' vulnerability to violence according to the work setting. Drunken clients are often avoided because sex workers believe that men under the influence of alcohol take longer to ejaculate and some cannot ejaculate at all.
