China Cracks Down on Hookers

China is trying really, really hard to stifle its booming prostitution industry. In just the past few days, police have detained more than 1,000 suspects potentially connected to the carnal business. Some 6,000 officers were dispatched last week to Dongguan, China's "sex capital,” and 4,800 officers swept 2,700 locales in Harbin. While the anti-prostitution measures are part of Communist Party leader Xi Jinping's larger anti-corruption goals, Xi may want to tread carefully: Prostitution accounts for 6 to 8 percent of the China's GDP and is a “cornerstone of the economy,” said Richard Burger, author of Behind the Red Door: Sex in China.