The Weather's Warm and the Pervs are Out: Chaoyang Busts 15 for Upskirt Photos

The weather's getting hotter and the skirts are getting shorter – and it seems the perverts are out in force. Right on the heels of a laowai pervert and a wet nurse sex ring, CCTV is now reporting that Chaoyang District police have arrested 15 people who are part of a ring that uses cameras concealed in walking sticks and other devices to take very low-angle videos of women in short skirts in various public areas and changing rooms in Chaoyang District.

The pervs are apparently able to sell the videos to porn websites for the handy sum of RMB 500 to RMB 1000 for a 10-minute segment. Sequences that featured attractive women, women's faces, or showed women who were not wearing panties fetched higher sums, the source said. Videos featuring famous people fetched the most, he added.

One woman interviewed by CCTV said someone tipped her off that her picture was on a porn website. Indeed when she looked she discovered shots taken of under her skirt as well as her unclothed lower half in a changing room. The experience was humiliating and she wanted to die, she said.

Reporters talked to one member of the estimated 18-person ring who demonstrated how the pictures were taken with a camera concealed in a walking stick. The ring included one woman, he said, who had easier access to women's changing rooms where she concealed phone cameras to make videos of women trying on clothes.

Intrepid Beijing News journalists also found a website that specializes in selling concealed cameras, and representatives said that business is booming. Cameras cost between RMB 200 and RMB 2000 and are concealed in all manner of devices, including buttons, car keys, cigarette lighters, pens and watches.

But before you readers start doing the math and getting any crazy entrepreneurial ideas, consider this: lawyers interviewed by the paper indicated that not only is taking such pictures illegal, but the sale and use of concealed cameras by individuals is strictly against the law in China.

Image: CCTV via Beijing News