A Chinese company raised an interesting statutory interpretation question with a job advertisement seeking “condom testers” in Shanghai. The ad declared that the company was looking to hire “lively and good-looking women” aged 18 to 25 to work for a salary of up to 3,000 yuan (US$480) per day. A company official identified as Chen insisted that, while the women are required to have sex, they are doing it for research and the company only hired the women because it cannot afford machines.
Chen says that they already have enough men. Chen assured people that “[i]n the tests, women usually don’t have such a tough job as only men are responsible for taking notes and getting test results.”
While the company has since taken down the advertisement, it received dozens of applicants.
In the United States, the standard definition of prostitution is:
(a) A person commits an offense if he knowingly:
(1) offers to engage, agrees to engage, or engages in sexual conduct for a fee; or
(2) solicits another in a public place to engage with him in sexual conduct for hire.
A “condom tester” would seem to be engaged in “sexual conduct for a fee” though the company is paying a “salary” rather than a per act fee. Indeed, this appears to be the distinction drawn by the company. Chen insists that the women were only required to do one “testing” a day and would not receive more pay for additional acts. Moreover, the company could argue that the male is not actually paying for sexual services since both parties are paid by a third party, the company.
Before one dismisses the legal interpretation, keep in mind that we allow people to have sex for money if they do so on film. We call them actors as opposed to prostitutes. What is the difference between paying a salary to “actors” as opposed to “testers”?
Source: Shanghai Daily
Kudos: Professor Don Clarke
Product testing. What’s the problem here?
I guess this is part of the executive compensation package.
We don’t “allow people to have sex for money if they do so on film.” That’s why the porn jndustry can only operate in a few select locations- it is illegal in most if the country as prostitution.
pete9999
1, November 19, 2012 at 10:04 pm
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hahahaha! I know….that’s a level of curiosity that just escapes me….hahahaha!
I’d rather not.
(insert petraeus joke here)
or just insert Patraeus
Woosty
i don’t believe i’d stick my finger someone elses sperm collector.
(insert petraeus joke here)
Young man Dredd we had a milk man in my youth. I’m an old mofo and understand all references back to the mid 50’s. My older sister loved Herman’s Hermits. That clip was nostalgic and melancholy. Mary played that 45 continuously! That is until the next Herman’s Hermits record came out. She obsessed on the Righteous Brothers also…better selection IMHO.
Dredd
1, November 19, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Woosty’s still a Cat 1, November 19, 2012 at 5:17 pm
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I think you just shot down their assertion that the machines were too expensive.
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😉 indeed
Time flies, and here comes the voice from the past creeping. Old fart indeed!
Words morph, well it all does, only greed and power are unchanged. Try immersing in another culture for 44 years and see what happens, You are so out of it you can’t
even see the difference. Dive back into your bunny hole if you can find it.
Like visiting Times Square for the first time, come up out of the subway and lose all reference points.
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I must remember to ask for twilight anesthasia. Re Nick’ advice.
opps “milk man” not “milk many” …
PS nick, this song encapsulates an older version of milk delivery, where the customers would leave, 1, 2 or more empty milk bottles on their front porch and the milk many would replace that many with new bottles full of the day’s milk.
nick spinelli 1, November 19, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Dredd, LOL. You just gave a version of the 1960′s, “Some of my best friends are Negroes.” … I bet there were a lot of kids who think the same. Collateral pc damage of a legit word, just out of fashion.
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No doubt about it.
Check out the words “the company was gay” … “my love reigned as Queen” … “terrist house” … etc. from a band of modern history, not ancient history.
Words morph:
Woosty’s still a Cat 1, November 19, 2012 at 5:17 pm
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I think you just shot down their assertion that the machines were too expensive.
Dredd, LOL. You just gave a version of the 1960’s, “Some of my best friends are Negroes.” You know it’s funny, my daughter when she was in high school[this millenium] heard me say “Negro.” I was talking about an old black guy I knew. She gasped and thought it was akin to “nigger” which has never heard me say. I bet there were a lot of kids who think the same. Collateral pc damage of a legit word, just out of fashion.
nick spinelli 1, November 19, 2012 at 3:48 pm
… male on male sex … anal sex … anal sex … I’m not gay … my digital rectal exam is coming up …
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Are you being PC today? 😉
I can’t process “anal” and “sex” with my olde timey mental dictionary’s definition of “sex”.
Anal intrusion, butt throbs, internal combustion, and things of that sort come to my mind when I hear those words.
Being straight is ok IMO, because I kissed a Girl and I Liked It, even though some of my friends have been gay.