But now it has reared its humorous head.
As the story goes, some expatriates from Europe and Africa has complained to Shanghai Daily that they are always embarrassed about "ill-fitting" condoms in the city as almost all of them are designed to a standard Asian size and will may not fit them.
Chinese condom suppliers including Durex, Jissbon and Okamoto only supply condoms with a common size suitable for Chinese men – their target consumer group.
Condom supplier Jissbon reported that the company had received complaints from some foreigners about Chinese condoms that are sometimes a little bit tight for them. They will not supply any bigger size as this group is not their target market. Moreover, they did sell XL sizes before but could not make much profit from doing so
Moreover high delivery costs for condoms mostly manufactured in Thailand has been a negative factor to marketing operations.
Most condom makers also are persuasive with their argument that it is cost effective to produce condoms of the same size rather than variants of many sizes.
For expatriates in China, it looks like they have to import correct size condoms on their own......
