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The Shanghai Daily Youth newspaper wrote yesterday that a Chinese condom manufacturer was looking to hire "lively and good looking women" age 18 to 25 as condom testers in Shanghai. The company was offering 3,000 Yuan ($480.00 US) per day to the women.

A reporter who followed up spoke with a man at the company who informed him they had been hiring women for months. The man, a Mister Chen told the reporter many young woman had already passed the interviews and that they already had enough males testers as well - there goes my chance for work!!

The company spokesperson went on to say although machines are usually used to test condoms, they had to hire men and women because the machines were too expensive for this company to purchase. He said it's a pretty easy job for women. It's the men who have to take notes and report back on many different aspects of the condoms performance.

When the reporter suggested these people were engaged in prostitution  Mr. Chen admitted the women are required to engage in sex with men but it was not prostitution. He was indignant and said if that was the case they'd be paying women far less!! He said women are only paid to test the condoms once a day - the company does not pay extra if they volunteer to do more testing every day.

When the newspaper contacted a lawyer about the legality of this activity they were informed it would be difficult to classify the job as illegal since at the moment there are no laws in China regarding condom testing. In a nutshell, this is a pretty good example of  the creativity of some people to play at the boundaries of Justice - condom testing - who'd have thunk???