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Love For Sale - Woman Auctions Off Her Virginity in Hopes of Big Payoff

By , About.com Guide   January 16, 2009

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Natalie Dylan is a 22-year-old from San Diego who says she's a virgin. She has a B.S. in women's studies and hopes to get her masters in marriage and family therapy. Dark-haired and very attractive, she's decided to finance her grad school education by putting something up for auction. Not her college textbooks or her Pez collection...but her virginity.

She started the auction back in September 2008, and at that time she was hoping for a $1 million dollar bid.

Fast forward to 2009. The economy is faltering worldwide, millions have lost vast amounts of money, foreclosures continue, unemployment is rising, retail sales are down, and the financial future looks grim. But not for Natalie Dylan (which, by the way, is not her real name). On January 13, she claims to have have received a high bid of $3.7 million.

Dylan told the Telegraph that she decided to profit from selling her virginity after learning that her older sister had earned enough to pay for her own education after three weeks of turning tricks.

She explained to the British newspaper that she's willing to submit to medical tests to prove that she's a virgin, and commented

"I think me and the person I do it with will both profit greatly from the deal."

She added: "It's shocking that men will pay so much for someone's virginity, which isn't even prized so highly anymore."

I asked a few friends and acquaintances of various ages what they thought of Dylan's actions, and I was surprised by a handful of responses. Several didn't think that a female's virginity was such a precious thing, and that if she could make money off it, why not? "It IS an awful lot of money," one young woman confessed.

What do you think? Would you do it?

Comments

January 17, 2009 at 12:14 pm
(1) chinadolls :

Crazy. I think nothing is sacred anymore and this is why the world is falling apart around us with lack of morals. Even more crazy that someone is even willing to pay for it.. With all the trafficking in this world. I would feel sorry for her if someone bought it and then turned around and sold to a man in Iran or even Iraq for more money. What would she do then?

January 20, 2009 at 2:02 am
(2) Darleene :

Finally. A woman who puts value in her womanhood. Since the sixties, many liberal women have acted as free prostitutes, discounting a woman’s value. Granted, Ms. Dylan’s chose a radical way to make her point, however it is about time for young women to say: “I am valuable. What God gave me is valuable!” Hopefully, the pendulum have reached it’s limit, and young women will once again become virtuous, value themselves and request for men and society to value them at the level they should be.

January 27, 2009 at 10:34 pm
(3) isaytruth :

FIRST, WHY WOULD ANYONE PAY FOR SOMETHING THAT IS FREE ALL OVER? I DONT UNDERSTAND…
ALSO SHE IS NOT ALL THAT OF A LOOKER, SHE LOOKS LIKE ASSIAN TO ME, OH AND WHERE IS YOUR GIRLY CATALOGUE FROM PHILLIPIANS..
FINALLY, IN TODAY’S STANDARDS EVERYONE THIN IS CONSIDERED VERY BEAUTIFUL, SHE IS NO MORE THAN A 7, AND NO i AM NOT JEALOUS…

January 28, 2009 at 9:53 am
(4) Teresa J. :

um, this is prostitution. isn’t that illegal in california?

June 29, 2009 at 4:19 am
(5) concern friend :

your insane woman i mean giving up your virginity is a big no no. and besides that is a gift from God that must be proud of and you will give it to someone you don’t love. your so wierd.. :-(

September 30, 2009 at 1:18 pm
(6) arlena :

If she wants auction it off let her. Yes sex is free all over but a woman is only a virgin once and that is what men are paying for to sleep with a virgin not someone who has been around a time or two. I’m 27 and still a virgin but that is my choice and it has entered my mind a time or two to sale it but I don’t think I will. And I don’t think that she would be foolish enough to get caught up in something that would end up her being a sex slave. I’m sure she will have some kind of protection around to keep something like that from happening.

March 9, 2010 at 5:36 pm
(7) george foroma :

what can one give in exchange for one’s soul?

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