Sex king in little shops of pleasure
Everywhere you look, hard-core sex fills the room - thousands of pirated discs emblazoned with lurid images of naked men and women engaged in various sex acts. Most cost an average of $20 or six for $100.
Some of the titles are equally eye-catching: Three For All, Lewd Conduct, Taste Of Love.
Overhead a widescreen plasma television offers a sample of the wares. The volume is turned up loud, deafeningly so. It's hard to imagine that anyone making that much noise is enjoying themselves.
Next door it is the same. And the next one. Indeed, the entire floor of this Mongkok building is dedicated to the sale of illegal pornography.
Drifting through the rooms are dozens of mostly young men. Peak business is after work or at weekends, say the touts. Men stand in the doorway of each unit, offering to strike a deal. 'You buy six and I will give you one for free,' says one tout. 'But don't tell my boss. It is our secret.'
'This is the shopfront of organised crime in the city,' says Mongkok's assistant district commander (crime), Superintendent Dave Grant.
The open sale of hard-core pornography had been a problem for more than 10 years but it was still 'totally unacceptable'.
'We know blackmail is out there, prostitution is out there, drugs are out there, and this thing was sitting there all this time as a mountain,' he said, vowing to eradicate it.
