
Last year, a 16-year-old Hong Kong girl was killed in a gruesome murder after she went to a 24-year-old man's apartment for a compensated date. The practice can have deadly consequences.

Watch young women describe why they do it » Sze wanted the same for herself, so her classmates introduced her to Internet chat forums where she met male customers. She says she became jealous when she saw the designer clothes, bags and cosmetics they bought with the money they earned through compensated dating. Sze said she started compensated dating because many of her classmates at an all-girls school were doing it. More often than not, the date involves sex. I thought this was easy money, and that's why I continued doing this kind of thing."įor a year and a half, Sze was part of a growing social phenomenon among teens in Hong Kong called "compensated dating," a practice in which a young woman agrees to go on a date with a man for a fee.

We just had sex, he paid, and then he left. "Actually, I was a bit scared, but I knew this was the only way I could get money.

We skipped the dinner part and went straight to the guest house for sex," Sze recalled. "My first customer was an ordinary man in his 40s. But Sze, now 19, wants young girls to hear her story so they never make the same mistake. Her father doesn't know what she did as a 16-year-old, and she hopes he never finds out. HONG KONG, China (CNN) - She doesn't want to be identified, except by her nickname "Sze," and she has a secret past.
