The Walking Dead star Alicia Witt breaks her silence after her parents were found dead of suspected hypothermia as she says they were 'not penniless'īritney Spears says she was forced to wear 'two layers of tights every night' while performing during years-long Vegas residency There is a fight that never goes out: Morrissey accuses Johnny Marr of 'using my name as click bait' and insists he 'knows nothing of my life' The sex toy industry is also sharply expanding, with some figures suggesting that China provides products for up to 70 per cent of the global industry. Today even the smallest cities have versions of a Red Light district, brothels are tolerated, and travellers often find prostitutes phoning them in their hotel rooms to offer their services. While prostitution is illegal in China, it is increasing rapidly throughout the country's expanding urban sprawls.ĭuring the country's Cultural Revoltion in the 60s and 70s, men and women were often segregated and Mao Zedong's regime launched a harsh crackdown on prostitution.īut now - thanks to China's rapidly expanding economy and the introduction of Western values in cities and even parts of the rural countryside - things have changed. Red light district: Today even the smallest cities have versions of a Red Light district (such as these in Shanghai, left, and Hong Kong, right), brothels are tolerated, and travellers often find prostitutes phoning them in their hotel rooms to offer their services