Shanghai has more than 2,300 hotels in the financial district of Pudong. Despite more than 80 percent of their clients being foreigners (as if that should make a difference), 40 percent of the hotels and recreation centers in the area refuse the request to have free condom boxes installed.

The guests will bring their own or ask hotel staff to go shopping for them says one hotel manager.

But there are 17 million people in Shanghai and the population is growing counters the Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission.

Another hotel manager says that ‘providing free boxes of condoms in each room is a total waste and nonsense."

A SPFPC representative countered with "we will provide more variety and better condoms, and strengthen the publicity of enterprises, which have provided free condoms."

Yet another hotel manager – condom boxes will "make guests uncomfortable and damage the company’s reputation."

SPFPC’s response – "AIDS and STDs make guests even more uncomfortable."

Should there be free condoms made avaialable in theses hotels? In any and all hotels? Would it be bad for business even in an upscale hotel?

What do you think?

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