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‘Free if you’re a girl’: Room-sharing app filled with men asking for women
App to share hotel rooms with strangers pulled from the iOS App Store and WeChat
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This article originally appeared on ABACUS
Meet Shuishui, a Chinese room-sharing app that allows you to share your hotel rooms with total strangers. Wanna share your room with a member of the opposite sex? You can do that if you pay to become a VIP member.
Sounds like a hookup app in disguise, right? Well, you may not be wrong. The app was recently taken down from Apple’s App Store as many question “the purity of its motives”.
Shuishui’s marketing is not subtle. The tagline on the app’s greeting page says, “Return to your twenties, sleeping with an unknown he or she. What’s so wrong about that?”
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Its second tagline goes, “We share spare hotel beds or couches with more than 100,000 female backpackers.”
Once inside the app, you see other registered users offering to share their rooms. And very quickly you’ll see some very suggestive comments.
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One male user wrote, “Girls only. You know what I mean. We can talk money first.”
Another male guest wrote, “Free if you are a girl".
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