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Andre Balazs: Lust key to hotel success

A hotel’s success could be judged by the affairs it fosters. “All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn’t necessarily do at home,” writes Andre Balazs in Playboy’s August issue. “I think it’s fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world . . . it comes from that unique psychological displacement that happens when you enter the safe, embracing, nonjudgmental world of a good hotel.” Balazs would know — guests at his Standard Hotel downtown have been spotted having sex in its windows.