What is really behind Beijing’s proclaimed crackdown on vices – sex, gambling and drugs? It began with an assault on the sex industry in Dongguan, the city wedged between Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Although primarily still a light manufacturing center with a vast number of single and lonely males working in the factories, Dongguan morphed into the commercial sex capital of China. Going beyond the lonely factory workers, it integrated vertically into higher-end brothels with customer satisfaction surveys, performance bonuses and ISO standards for sex services.