The advertisement called for "lively and good-looking women" aged 18 to 25.
Their job? To work as "condom testers". The pay? up to 3,000 yuan (S$588) a day.
Within three hours after the post was uploaded on Baixing.com on Sunday, 22people applied for the job, Shanghai Youth Daily reported.
But the advertisement, apparently posted by a condom manufacturer, soon caused an uproar online, with some people calling it a guise for prostitution.
The website soon removed the post, Shanghai Daily reported.
A reporter with Shanghai Youth Daily, who called the number provided in the advertisement, spoke to a man known only as Chen, who said he worked at the Shanghai-based company.
Can't afford machines
He said the company had been hiring women to test condoms for several months and claimed that that many young women passed interviews while quotas for male testers were filled.
"Although machines are usually used to test condoms, we have to hire women and men because we can't afford the machines," Mr Chen was quoted as saying.
"In the tests, women usually don't have such a tough job as only men are responsible for taking notes and getting test results."
He said that the women were required to "engage in sexual activities" during the tests, but insisted it was not prostitution.
Said Mr Chen: "If you are not willing to do the job, others will. A woman has to do the test just once a day and we don't pay extra if they volunteer to do more."
He said that the company wouldn't be paying 500 yuan to 1,000 yuan daily if they wanted to hire hookers.
Baixing.com deleted the advert soon after screenshots went viral on the microblogging site weibo.com.
A lawyer, known only in the report as Xu, told the newspaper that it is difficult to say whether the job is legal since there are no laws regarding condom testers.
"If such tests are to be legalised, there may no longer be a need for prostitutes," the lawyer was quoted as saying.
SOURCE: Asia One
Their job? To work as "condom testers". The pay? up to 3,000 yuan (S$588) a day.
Within three hours after the post was uploaded on Baixing.com on Sunday, 22people applied for the job, Shanghai Youth Daily reported.
But the advertisement, apparently posted by a condom manufacturer, soon caused an uproar online, with some people calling it a guise for prostitution.
The website soon removed the post, Shanghai Daily reported.
A reporter with Shanghai Youth Daily, who called the number provided in the advertisement, spoke to a man known only as Chen, who said he worked at the Shanghai-based company.
Can't afford machines
He said the company had been hiring women to test condoms for several months and claimed that that many young women passed interviews while quotas for male testers were filled.
"Although machines are usually used to test condoms, we have to hire women and men because we can't afford the machines," Mr Chen was quoted as saying.
"In the tests, women usually don't have such a tough job as only men are responsible for taking notes and getting test results."
He said that the women were required to "engage in sexual activities" during the tests, but insisted it was not prostitution.
Said Mr Chen: "If you are not willing to do the job, others will. A woman has to do the test just once a day and we don't pay extra if they volunteer to do more."
He said that the company wouldn't be paying 500 yuan to 1,000 yuan daily if they wanted to hire hookers.
Baixing.com deleted the advert soon after screenshots went viral on the microblogging site weibo.com.
A lawyer, known only in the report as Xu, told the newspaper that it is difficult to say whether the job is legal since there are no laws regarding condom testers.
"If such tests are to be legalised, there may no longer be a need for prostitutes," the lawyer was quoted as saying.
SOURCE: Asia One
