Card sells out within 4 hours of going on Sale in Taiwan over Controversial Porn star.

Controversial swipe cards featuring a Japanese porn star sold out in just four hours in Taiwan.

 

The pre-paid card picturing a clothed Yui Hatano sold all 15,000 copies within hours of going on sale.

The actress has featured in films including “Unfaithful Wife Who Tempts Her Father-in-Law” and “Surprising Sexual Technique,” reports the Daily Mirror.

 

The cards are used to access the metro system in the country's capital Taipei, and can also be used for convenience store purchases.

Lin Hsiao-chi, spokeswoman for card producer EasyCard, said that the photos conveyed a "fresh, healthy and beautiful" image.

 

There was controversy before the cards went on sale as critics said the images were disrespectful to women and sent inappropriate messages to children.

Many stores declined to sell them, prompting the company to offer them via telephone hotline only, according to the Associated Press.