Whispers and Moans: Interviews With the Men and Women of Hong Kong's Sex Industry by Yeeshan Yang

Author:Yeeshan Yang [Yang, Yeeshan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gender Studies, Hong Kong, Non-Fiction, Sex Industry, Social Science, Women's Studies
ISBN: 9789628673285
Google: uEgAeyUJ_WgC
Amazon: 9628673289
Publisher: Blacksmith Books
Published: 2006-04-14T23:00:00+00:00

Being a successful prostitute’s agent means adopting modern management techniques, revising the traditional image and becoming a professional ‘horseman’ – fashionable Cantonese slang for pimp. Fatty Dragon is a celebrity among horsemen.

Fatty Dragon writes about prostitution for several tabloid newspapers. His copy is typified by vulgar content in blunt street language, making it extremely popular among the Hong Kong male working class. For the last ten years, he has written for Hong Kong’s bestselling Apple Daily and Oriental Daily. His column, ‘Fatty Dragon Erotica’, is often positioned next to the horse racing coverage, so that readers can review the sex market and racing form in one glance. Maybe Fatty Dragon himself is a gambler, which is why he uses horse racing imagery in writing about prostitutes. When he talks about a hooker, he will often use phrases like “a good horse”, “a smart horse” or “a silly horse”. He will describe a cheap establishment as a “horse stable” or “horse barn”. He might describe nightclubs as “horseable intercourse”, meaning one can be sociable with the horses and then have sex with them. He takes his time to evaluate the horses and barns in order to recommend good prospects and introduce new treats; he is, therefore, an expert “jockey”.

Fatty often describes girls as “items”, indicating that in his view, women are commodities. Similarly, advertisements for sex services in Hong Kong might state: “Wide variety of girls in stock, multiple choice, at sale prices.”

To recommend the most intoxicating, cost-effective, innovative, smart-looking women and sex premises, Fatty Dragon needs to test the services on offer, rather like a chef must taste various cuisines to develop his own menu. Girls dare not offend Fatty Dragon and are prepared to line up to flatter and please him. Many offer themselves free of charge, hoping to be promoted in his column.

In his internet column, Fatty Dragon has said that with expensive hookers, he would sometimes actually have to pay; in contrast to the frequent free services given in return for recommending middle- and low-class brothels and individual girls. His remarks on expensive prostitutes never seem as enthusiastic as when he talks about cheap chickens.

There are so many prostitutes, nightclubs and bars in Hong Kong, and Fatty is only one man. He has claimed that others have used his name to obtain complimentary sex.

Using his huge popularity, Fatty Dragon joined forces with a multimedia conglomerate to publish Hong Kong Nightlife Weekly and an associated website. The constant flow of articles and pictures seems to capture the current state of the Hong Kong prostitution business, while providing some insight into the social aspects of the sex industry. When Hong Kong was discussing the implementation of 24-hour customs procedures on the border with China, Fatty Dragon predicted on his website that the new policy would have a disastrous effect on Hong Kong nightlife, and that business would migrate to the Pearl River Delta. This northbound move would have a direct impact on Hong Kong’s sex industry, and indirectly influence Hong Kong’s economy.

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