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A schoolgirl earned more than HK$20,000 in six months by engaging in compensated dating, a murky form of prostitution arranged between older men and teenage girls seeking extra pocket money, a youth group has found.
The girl, now 15, was among six girls who had sought counselling services from the Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service's Yau Tsim Mong Integrated Centre for Youth Development. The girl's name was not revealed.
The girls had engaged in compensated dating between the middle of last year and early this year.  They looked for patrons by placing advertisements on internet websites or forums, saying they were offering  intimate services for men and how much they would charge.
Their services ranged from dates and holding hands to providing sex. There were also guidelines for girls on how they could earn money by compensated dating.
In return, the girls received an amount between HK$1,000 and HK$1,700 for each job.
The centre said all six girls' family situations were unstable. Either they were raised in broken families or their parents often argued openly.
The girls made it clear the reason they had engaged in compensated dating was to earn extra pocket money for entertainment and  luxury goods, such as designer brand handbags and new mobile phones.
Centre social worker Chiu Tak-choi said that while social workers talked about the matter with the girls, the girls tended to avoid the label compensated dating and distinguished it from prostitution.
'The girls usually date their patrons and then decide whether to serve them [sexually]. They think they have the liberty to choose customers and  therefore consider this a key criterion that makes compensated dating different from prostitution,' Mr Chiu said.
He said some of the girls had boyfriends and had told them what they had been doing. In several cases, the boyfriends demanded the girls give them part of the girls' income.
'The girls would use condoms when making love as the line differentiating boyfriends from patrons,' Mr Chiu said. 'They allowed their boyfriends to forego condoms and prohibited patrons from doing so.'
Mr Chiu said the flourishing of advertisements for compensated dating was worrying. He said the centre had discovered 200 websites and forums with such advertisements.



Schoolgirls fail to see paid 'dating' as prostitution: group