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‘He was an overweight man in his twenties, who gave off a strong smell of sweat. The manageress shouted, ‘Customer here!’ ‘She looked tiny and thin. In the dim orange light, she displayed herself like an ornament, with a tired smile under her high cheekbones. I was so overwhelmed by the emptiness of her watery eyes that I forgot what to say to the customer.'

‘If you don’t want to do the whole session, you can just buy parts. £3 for touching her face and hair. £10 for touching the upper part of her body. £20 for fondling the lower part of her body. Would you like a cup of tea first?’ – A Chinese female housekeeper at a brothel in Cheam, Surrey 2007 - This book is so upsetting, but important. Undercover look at exploitation of undocumented Chinese migrant women in UK.