Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee is a site of 65,000 indian sex workers based in West Bengal. Durbar has been active in challenging the structural barriers that form the everyday reality of sex workers' lives as they relate to material deprivation or their social exclusion with the aim of altering them.

Mongkok is a Hong Kong red-light district with about 160 brothels (down from 300 after more than 500 raids in 2006). The houses and aprtments get frequented by blue collar workers as Chinese prostitutes are relatively cheap.