If you had lived in Taiwan and actually gone there you’d be singing a different tune. We’re talking about 2 different times, the 1980’s and the mid-1990’s. After Lee Deng-hwei became President and they turned the night market into a tourist attraction things changed.
In the 1980’s the local papers had plenty of stories of young aborigine girls being held for weeks in brothels while they were pumped full of hormones in order to develop their breasts. Afterwards they were offered at extremely high prices as virgins. Having been used, the price dropped to about $300NT for 15 minutes (for Chinese customers). Japanese and Western customers paid about $1,000NT. I went threough there many times and saw lots of girls who couldn’t have been older than 13 or 14 years old. The average age seemed to be 16 to 17.