Many net cafés in HCMC even guide clients to sex websites to satisfy the wide
variety of demand.
An emerging new entrepreneurial trade now sees sources of pictures and videos
from websites copied onto CDs for sale.
Running in cyberspace
Hunting and destroying web sex sites is a tough job for Vietnamese police as
they struggle in cyberspace, and many operators live abroad.
Despite police initiatives to crack down on the sex industry, many dead sex web
sites have been resurrected under new domain names, with an email keeping
clients in touch.
With website owners on the run to different domains at the first sign of
trouble, police control is all but impossible, even after successfully closing
down two porn sites recently.
According to police, they acted as a paid member to download porn from a
webpage of founder Tran Minh Quang, who lives in the US. Quang has set up an
agent network in Vietnam to promote his website.
With one of the two prohibited websites already re-opened under a new name,
police in Vietnam may soon realize that controlling Vietnam's oft chaotic
motorbike traffic is nothing compared to controlling that in cyberspace.
