... also catalyses the spread of AIDs, a disease the government wants to prevent. Yet, despite all these undesirable consequences, prostitution cannot be prohibited as that would be too great an infringement on personal rights. Thus, lawmakers drafted the law to discourage and to limit access to prostitution. Causing or encouraging others to become prostitutes is illegal; allowing premises to be used for prostitution is illegal; living on the earnings of prostitution is illegal; and soliciting for the purposes of prostitution is illegal. However, in spite of the lawmakers' efforts to circumscribe the practice of prostitution, this trade has been able to survive. It is said that 'so long as the demand for prostitution remains, it is unlikely that it can be eradicated as a social phenomenon'3 Prostitution has been able to adapt to and to avoid different restrictions imposed on it by the Hong Kong government. Up to the mid-1800s, ...

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