Woman Plans Virginity Auction To Pay For Education
September 11, 2008 by Michelle Smith
Filed under Relationships
A 22-year-old college student from San Diego, California, is hoping to cover the cost of her education by selling her virginity. She is hoping to earn at least a million US dollars. She originally tried to go the eBay route, but eBay apparently frowns on auctioning that sort of “item.” She now plans to auction herself off at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, in Nevada.
She tells The Insider television show,
“I’m ready for the controversy, I know it will come along. I’m ready to do this….We live in a capitalist society. Why shouldn’t I be allowed to capitalize on my virginity?”
The young woman, going by the faux name, “Natalie Dylan,” has a bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies and wants to continue her education with a master’s in marriage and family therapy. “Dylan” explains in a video interview at The Insider that’s she’s not looking for just “the highest bidder.” She wants the winner of the auction to be “genuine” and a “nice person.” Genuine? Nice? Is she planning to sell herself or is she hoping to find a relationship?
Do genuine, nice people frequent virginity auctions at infamous Nevada brothel’s? Selling sex is prostitution. Earmarking the money for an education does not make her any less a prostitute.
What did “Dylan” learn while earning her BA in Women’s Studies? Prostitution is a sad way to have to earn a living. Why is she going to the trouble of using a pseudonym when she is showing her face on national television? How is she hoping to be taken seriously as a counselor when she outs herself in this way? Is the entire thing just a ploy to get media exposure?
I consider myself a feminist, so part of me is thinking, well it’s her body, she can do what she wants with it, but the bigger part of me is wishing that I could speak to her so that I could say, ”Please take a step back and think about what you are doing here. Do you want to be known for the rest of your life as the girl who sold her virginity and talked about it on television?”
I can’t help but think that this woman is not considering the further implications of her actions. What about the people she wants to date someday? Or marry? Does she really think that this decision is not going to come back to haunt her at some point. There are worse things in life than having to pay off your student loans.
“Master’s in marriage and family therapy?” She may need that degree.
ick.
i can only imagine what kind-of scumbag would pay her for her virginity. wow.
wouldn’t it be great if someone paid her to KEEP her virginity?
That would be great, Leah. I just can’t see how she thought this through. She has to have a certain amount of intelligence to earn the BA in the first place, but the rest of it sounds nuts.
I hope she gets AIDS… I hope that million USD is worth it.
That is a very ugly thing to say. I would never hope that for anyone.
I think she’s misguided, her values might be a bit skewed, but she’s only hurting herself with this, not anyone else. Why wish her harm, a horrible disease? The whole situation is sad.