Rule goes easy on first-time prostitutes (Shanghai Daily) Updated: 2006-06-02 06:09
Those who offer sexual service for money due to severe poverty and are
caught for the first time will receive a lenient punishment, police in eastern
China's Jiangsu Province Thursday said.
Those who offer oral sex and masturbation for a sex client and are caught for
the first time will also be lightly punished, they said.
They will be detained for less than five days, and fined less than 500 yuan,
according to the police.
Also, in a new regulation published Thursday, Jiangsu authorities have
clarified that commercial gay sex will be treated as prostitution.
Both heterosexual and homosexual relations, if established for the purpose of
gaining money or properties, including oral sex, masturbation and pederasty,
will be treated as prostitution, the guidance said.
People who have already begun a commercial sex act but are prevented from
completing it or have already finished the process but not the payment are still
considered in violation of the regulation, according to the new rule.
People who are charged with prostitution may face a detention of 10 to 15
days and a maximum fine of 5,000 yuan (US$625).
Those who breach the regulation for the first time may face a detention of up
to 5 days and a maximum fine of 500 yuan.
Those who violate the rule many times but are between 16-18 years old or
those above 18 who violate the rule more than twice will be educated at a
detention center.
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