Monday, Dec 10, 2012
THE facade looks like any other ordinary shoplot, with door grilles and no signboard. It can pass off as just another video arcade.
Should one enter it, he would come to a lounge that serves as a mini-cinema where Hollywood movies are shown on a big screen, with two smaller screens that project hardcore pornographic films.
After being sufficiently "stimulated", the visitors will be led to an area called "Aquariums" where exotic women sit in glass cubicles.
They are then persuaded to choose a girl they fancy and have sex with her for between RM90 (S$35.90) and RM150 (S$59.90) a session.
This takes place smack-dab in the heart of Ipoh, reported Metro Ahad.
There are apparently six such joints in the city, one of which was raided by the police early on Saturday.
Two women, one from China and the other from Thailand, as well as two local men, believed to be pimps, were picked up in the 2am raid.
Clients are picked at random by the pimps who loiter at the parking lots and approach those who park outside their premises.
Reporters from the tabloid went to one such "cinema" and saw about 20 women in the two-way "aquariums".
Some were from Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand and the others, from China.
The reporters claimed that the women from China, meant only for Chinese-speaking clients, were available at a rate of RM150 for a half-hour sex session while the others were available for RM90.
One reporter, after choosing a Vietnamese woman, followed her into a room with an attached bathroom. Apparently, for RM400 (S$159.70), he could have her for the entire night.
Commenting on the raid, Ipoh police chief Asst Comm Sum Cheng Keong said they would continue to be on alert for such vice dens with the assistance of the local authorities.
