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'Capitalist' student auctions off virginity
****Her picture is at the above link****
A 22-year-old woman who is planning to auction off her virginity in order to pay for her college tuition says she has no ethical hang-ups about the plan.
The woman, using the pseudonym Natalie Dylan, will auction herself through the website of the enormous Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel in the US state of Nevada.
"We live in a capitalist society ... why shouldn't I be allowed to capitalise on my virginity?" Ms Dylan was quoted as saying in the New York Daily News.
"I understand some people will condemn me ... but I think this is empowering. I'm using what I have to better myself.
The pretty brunette has already finished her undergraduate degree in women's studies at Sacramento State University and plans to start a master's degree.
Speaking on shock jock Howard Stern's New York radio show, Ms Dylan said she got the idea from a Peruvian woman who auctioned her virginity and received a $1.5 million bid.
The Peruvian woman did not go through with the plan.
Ms Dylan told Stern she would submit to a gynecological examination and lie detector test to prove she was really a virgin.
But she said she was not willing to let just any guy win the auction — price and personality would both come into the equation.
Stern denied initial reports that he was behind the auction, saying he only wanted to interview the girl about why she would do such a thing.
The Moonlite Bunny Ranch is a massive brothel, staffed by as many as 500 prostitutes, that calls itself "the de-virginising capital of America".
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Based on that excerpt alone, I think this chick is awesome. She can boast the credibility of a higher education, which tends to resist the advances of batshit-crazy people(usually), so I'm gonna assume she's rational in the common sense. Now, on the assumption of sanity, she's taking all the social mores and dogma and peer pressures, and is kicking it straight in the nuts. She doesn't care, other peoples values regarding sex do not concern her. She's doing it HER way, on her terms, apparently by her own decision. She thought it out, she heard what others had to say, and is deciding to go through with it(...so far).
This is a monument to self-expression and free-thinking, AND it's 100% harmless. Mad respect.
And what if it pays her way to a doctorate, or something like that? Not something sneeze at. Not at all.
I mean, really, bring that into contrast. What's more important? Keeping true to our hypocritically puritanical values on sex that we were taught while growing up, or the doors opened by the schooling she might not have previously been able to afford?
....Of course, I could go and learn some dirty little detail that undermines the entire thing somehow, but so far it's core concept I think this is super novel.