Does chat record count as evidence of prostitution?

Legal analysis: online chat records can be used as evidence of whoring, but only as indirect evidence. The reason why it can't be used as direct evidence is that online chat records can only prove the motives of clients, but not the direct whoring behavior.

Legal basis: The types of electronic data in "Several Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on Evidence in Civil Proceedings" include five categories and various forms:

(1) Information published by web pages, blogs, Weibo and other online platforms; (2) Communication information of network application services such as SMS, e-mail, instant messaging and communication group; (3) User registration information, identity authentication information, electronic transaction records, communication records, login logs and other information; (four) documents, pictures, audio, video, digital certificates, computer programs and other electronic files; (5)