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Prostitution in the People's Republic of China - Types and venues
Chinese police categorise prostitution practices according to a descending hierarchy of seven tiers, though this typology does not exhaust the forms of practices that exist.[26] These tiers highlight the heterogenous nature of prostitution and prostitutes. Whilst they are all classified as prostitutes, the services they offer can be very different. Within some tiers, for example, there is still some revulsion to the acts of anal sex and oral sex. In parallel with the wide range of backgrounds for prostitutes, male buyers of sex also come from a wide range of occupational backgrounds.
The first level, known as baoernai (包二奶), refers to women who act as the "second wives" of men with money and influential positions, including government and entrepreneurs from the mainland, as well as overseas businessmen. This practice is defined as prostitution on the grounds that women in question actively solicit men who can provide them with fixed-term accommodation and a regular allowance. Women who engage in these acts will sometimes co-habit with their "clients" and may even have ambitions to become a real wife.
The second tier, baopo (包婆: "packaged wife"), refers to women who accompany high class clients for a fixed duration of time, for example, during the course of a business trip, and receive a set payment for doing so. The first and second tiers have become the focus of heated public debate because they are explicitly linked to government corruption. Many domestic commentators contend that these practices constitute a concrete expression of "bourgeois right".[27] The All-China Women's Federation, as one of the major vehicles of feminism in the PRC, as well as women's groups in Hong Kong and Taiwan, have been actively involved in efforts to eradicate this form of "concubinage" as practices that violate the emotional and economic surety of the marriage contract.[28]
The third tier, santing (三厅: "three halls"), refers to women who perform sexual acts with men in karaoke/dance venues, bars, restaurants, teahouses and other venues and who receive financial recompense in the form of tips from the individual men they accompany, as well as from a share of the profits generated by informal service charges on the use of facilities and the consumption of food and beverages. A common euphemism for such hostesses is sanpei xiaojie (三陪小姐: "ladies of the three accompaniments"). These women often begin by allowing their clients to fondle or intimately caress their bodies, then if the client is eager, will engage in sexual intercourse.
The fourth tier refers to women who are colloquially referred to as "doorbell girls" (叮咚小姐: "dingdong ladies"), that is, women who solicit potential buyers of sex by phoning rooms in a given hotel. The common practice is to offer either one-time sexual intercourse or all-night sex, the latter usually being at double or triple the regular price.
The fifth tier, falangmei (发廊妹: "hairdressing salon sisters"), refers to women who work in places that offer commercial sexual services under the guise of massage or health and beauty treatments; for instance, in health and fitness centres, beauty parlours, barber shops, bathhouses and saunas. Common activities in these premises are masturbation or oral sex.
The lowest two tiers are characterised by a more straightforward exchange of sex for financial or material recompense. They are neither explicitly linked to government corruption, nor directly mediated through China's new commercial recreational business sector. The sixth tier, jienü (街女: "street girls"), refers to women who solicit male buyers of sex on the streets.
The seventh and lowest tier, xiagongpeng (下工棚: "down the work shack"), refers to women who sell sex to the transient labour force of male workers from the rural countryside. Women who sell sex in the lowest two tiers usually do so in return for small sums of money, food and shelter.
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