ABSTRACT
In Hong Kong, although no specific laws have made prostitution illegal, virtually every activity connected with it is regarded as an offence. These offences include soliciting in a public place for immoral purposes, trafficking in women, harbouring or exercising control over a woman for the purposes of prostitution, causing prostitution, and keeping a vice establishment or permitting or tolerating premises or vessels that one owns or rents to be used for prostitution. Nevertheless, the absence of the act of prostitution itself from this list of offences means that a sexual and financial transaction between, for example, a masseuse and a client in his hotel room discloses no obvious offence (Vagg 1991a).
