"I used to be a virgin, but I gave it up because there was no money in it." - Marsha Warfield
Natalie Dylan is proving Marsha Warfield wrong. As a follow up to my question regarding the demand for virginity, a 22-year-old woman in Nevada is auctioning off her virginity online according to a story on FOXNews.com. Normally, I wouldn't read FOX News (my grandad agrees with everything they say, therefore I can't stand it), but my friend Mac shared this story with me and I thought it fit in with my other post too well to ignore. I'm not going to weigh in on the legality of the issue because in my opinion as long as she's not breaking any laws (which they grudgingly admit in the article, in fact the whole point of the article seems to be to complain that it's not against the law), I think she should be able to do what she likes with her body. I seriously doubt it will start some auctioning epidemic like FOX seems to fear. The part I find interesting is that she's apparently been offered $3.7 million for this "precious" commodity. Does anyone else think it's slightly ridiculous that some guy is willing to pay that much for that? And also vaguely creepy. Is this the same type of person who is creating a market for the artificial virginity kits? It's way too former-century for me, personally. But seriously, that's a semi-brilliant way to pay for grad school (though I think it will probably pay for more than that--did I mention she majored in Women's Studies?). If guys are going to be sick and weird, women might as well profit off it.
Post Script: Reuters has a much more balanced report of the story here.
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