"Compensated dating" growing among Hong Kong teen girls

[Liberal_in_LA]

HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- She doesn't want to be identified, except by her nickname "Sze," and she has a secret past. Her father doesn't know what she did as a 16-year-old, and she hopes he never finds out. But Sze, now 19, wants young girls to hear her story so they never make the same mistake.

"My first customer was an ordinary man in his 40s. We skipped the dinner part and went straight to the guest house for sex," Sze recalled. "Actually, I was a bit scared, but I knew this was the only way I could get money. This customer wasn't bad, though. We just had sex, he paid, and then he left. I thought this was easy money, and that's why I continued doing this kind of thing."

For a year and a half, Sze was part of a growing social phenomenon among teens in Hong Kong called "compensated dating," a practice in which a young woman agrees to go on a date with a man for a fee. More often than not, the date involves sex.

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Why do young girls get involved in compensated dating? The reasons vary from an unstable home life to a desire for material goods, Chiu said.

One 14-year-old girl told him she started compensated dating when she lost her cell phone. She said her parents wouldn't buy her a new one, so she thought she could earn some fast money with paid sex. She had her eye on an expensive cell phone. When the money from the first compensated date didn't cover the cost for the new phone, she went on a second paid date.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/24/hongkong.teenage.prostitution/index.html

[seabeyond]

1. no. it is called prostitution. geeesh. nt

[imdjh]

2. I would have turned tricks at 16, but I didn't have The Look.

[seabeyond]

3. ok, lol. thanks for sharing. nt

[zonkers]

33. Awww, as I scrolled down the dudes, I thought we'd see a pic of you last.

[walldude]

13. I swear if I didn't know any better I'd think they got that title

from one of the Republican spin doctors.

[JVS]

4. That sounds like a very effective way to ruin your reputation.

[Art_from_Ark]

35. Hong Kong is a big city

And people there have different attitudes about what constitutes "moral" and "immoral" behavior.

[Skittles]

5. here we call them whores

[TheWraith]

6. Was that necessary? nt

[Skittles]

8. fucking for a cell phone

what would you call it?

[orleans]

9. "Compensated dating?" (lol) n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. Reminds me of Las Vegas renaming gambling "gaming"

[petronius]

40. It's a pretty odd euphemism - it's not like they don't have prostitutes in Hong Kong,

but I guess these are 'good girls' so they won't call it what it is...

[ecstatic]

11. Devil's advocate: Is it better to f*ck for free?

Which a lot of young girls do as well?

That being said, I think they are WAY too young to be doing that!

[girl gone mad]

23. Yes, it is better to fuck for free..

because you want to be fucking than to fuck a strange old man in exchange for money. Psychologically, physically, emotionally - in every respect it is better for the girl.

[Skittles]

25. THANK YOU

[pnorman]

20. "Phone sex"?

n/t

[Skittles]

22. LOL

stop it :rofl:

[TheWraith]

31. One case, probably the most extreme one they could find, and presented with no context.

It's not necessary to insult people. If you find it offensive, try doing something to help.

[Skittles]

36. compensated dating is prostitution

get over yourself

[WillyT]

15. Many Of Us Get Up In The Morning, And Do Something We Wouldn't Normally Do...

...for the money.

:shrug:

[Skittles]

27. I get treated like shit at my job

but I certainly don't equate it to being used as a semen receptacle

[Regret My New Name]

24. I wish women would pay me for dating and sex...

[girl gone mad]

26. And the men who prey on these girls are called Johns.

Kind of a stupid dichotomy.

[spanone]

7. translation....money for sex

[dysfunctional press]

12. a whore by any other name...

would still be just as skanky.

[BuyingThyme]

14. ... is just the same as the rest of us.

[dysfunctional press]

17. speak for yourself.

it's definitely your prerogative to do so if you wish- but personally, i've never rented out my genitals for someone else's amusement. :shrug:

[BuyingThyme]

18. The differnce is not in the use of the genitals but in how you view other people.

[dysfunctional press]

21. well- i don't view other people as johns that i can hustle into renting out my genitals.

whores do.

[JI7]

16. this is prostitution , no matter what reasons they are doing it for

whether it's because they are desperate and just trying to get any money for basic needs. or for luxury items as some of the examples in the OP.

maybe some people think it's only prostitution if people are doing it for a living .

[mkultra]

19. booking flight now

just kidding:)

[Nikki Stone1]

28. So DU calls the girls "whores" but doesn't judge males who do this to teens as criminals?

Come on.

We need a good name for Johns that explains their criminal nature.

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. Wel; that is the DOUBLE standard

the men just found some thrilling sex, and women are whores...

:sarcasm:

Though it shows just how far we have not evolved as a species and how much women are still seen as meat.

[Skittles]

38. where does it say in this thread specifically WOMEN are whores

go on, find it

they - whoever, not necessarily WE

them - WHOEVER gets, er, "compensated" for fucking - regardless of gender - I call many male politicans whores, for example

[seabeyond]

39. definition of whore, someone who gets paid for sex. someone choses that life

doesnt have a problem with the choices they make, surely the word used to define their action isnt an issue.

a person is willing ot sell their body for the use of another, but they are bothered with a word?

that has never made sense to me

making up pretty little names for it doesnt change what is happening.

[paulsby]

41. rubbish

a whore is somebody who sells sex for money.

male or female, it does not matter.

these HAPPEN to be female whores.

but whore is not a gender specific term.

men can be whores too.

sorry. fail

[K8-EEE]

32. Right? Especially when the guys are 40's & the girls young teenagers

They might not be "criminals" if it's not illegal where they live but they're definitely creeps and predators.

[Nikki Stone1]

34. Yeah. "Pieces of shit predators" is a little long, though

:)

[Skittles]

37. get some reading comprehension

"Here they call them whores"

they - whoever, not necessarily WE

them - WHOEVER gets, er, "compensated" for fucking - regardless of gender

[Iggo]

30. Oldest story in the world.

BTW: Interesting nick-name. Sze = 4...right?