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Wednesday, 16 January 2013

LADIES NIGHT // Women As Commodities in Hong Kong

Is "Ladies Night" a smart marketing ploy to fill bars or the objectification of Hong Kong's women?

On a Thursday night in Lan Kwai Fong (Hong Kong’s center of expat drinking) women can drink for free. To boost numbers on a traditionally quiet night, bars offer women, sorry “ladies”, free alcohol, while men pay. Men who are caught sneaking a sip of a woman’s free drink are ejected.