Hotel Complementary Intimacy Kit

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Hotel Complementary Intimacy Kit

An original development currently in exclusive international hotels, guesthouses and self-catering establishments is to provide sexual protection in each hotel room in the form of a hotel complementary Intimacy Kit, and also for bars and pubs to include condoms in their vending machines. But is South Africa keeping up with the times, asks Warren Bell of Quantumed.

With the 2010 Fifa World Cup™ in South Africa, we anticipate that locals and visitors alike – as they travel around the country to watch their favourite teams in action – will be aware of their sexual responsibility. The hospitality industry can assist here, by stocking Complementary Intimacy Packs – containing a condom and a sachet of lube – in the complementary toiletries supplied to each guest and tastefully set out for them in their hotel rooms.

On the international website http://travel.nationalgeographic.com, along with price indications, hotels are rated according to their in-room amenities. One boutique hotel in Dallas, the Za-Za, boasts packets of M&Ms at bedtime, along with a ‘Shag Kit’ (condoms, etc), whereas at Bangkok’s Cabbages and Condoms restaurant, all diners receive a condom with coffee, instead of an after-dinner mint.

According to researcher Birte Twisslemann, in her paper ‘Promotion of condom use in high risk setting’ (Eurosurveillance, 22 June 2000), in the absence of an effective vaccine for HIV/AIDS, behavioural change is a vital means of preventing infection. She concluded that the provision of condoms in hotel rooms – which meant that couples did not have to ask for them – was found to increase condom use substantially, by up to eight percent in the establishments studied.

Bringing us back to the South African setting, the Department of Health estimates that 28 percent of pregnant women were living with HIV in 2007, with an 18-percent prevalence of infection in all 15 to 49 year olds. This implies that around 5.7 million South Africans were living with HIV at the end of 2007, including 280 000 children under age 15 (www.avert.org.safricastats.htm).

Against this scenario, it is hoped that the South Africa’s local hospitality industry will indeed rise to the occasion.

Hotel Complementary Intimacy Kits, consisting of a small flat box containing a coloured and flavoured condom and a sachet of Assegai water-soluble lube can be ordered from Quantumed.

For further information or to place an order send an e-mail to: quantumed@icon.co.za