Sociologist Pan Suiming told me that in his study of sex workers, more than half of the subjects were wives or mothers who were forced into the sex trade due to economic issues.

• 而社会学家潘绥铭告诉我，这样为生计所迫而从事色情业的妻子或母亲居然占了他所调查的性工作者的一半左右。