Thursday, September 11, 2008

"We live in a capitalist society. Why shouldn't I be allowed to capitalize on my virginity?"



A 22-year-old student from San Diego is auctioning off her virginity on ebay, and is hoping to bring in $1 million. Kind of like that big storyline in Memoirs of a Geisha. I'm going to put my bid in tomorrow, but only after the old women from my village have a look to make sure everything is still in place. But on a more serious note this case also draws attention to the less overt dinner/gifts/jewelry-for-sex trades that go on all the time between men and women. And engagement rings are still in fashion, right? If a man did the inverse, and advertised on ebay that he was offering money in exchange for sex I'm sure he'd find himself the target of some kind of sting operation.

I found this story through the Chosun Ilbo, actually, which has a blurb in Korean here.

2 comments:

reijene said...

well, she's a big girl... and if she decides it right, who the h*ll are we to tell her that she's disgusting?... (that was my first thought =P)

White Rice said...

A friend was in Boracay and arranged for some pay-for-whoopie. A young teen-looking bird walks in, sees him and starts bawling. He felt bad, gave her the fifty bucks and sent her on her way; no whoopie. That don't seem likely to happen in this case, but I wonder if this San Diegan student is prepared for the gnarled, grisled man (woman?) that could win her virginity...