The 3.8 Million Dollar Snatch
Surfing around the blogosphere, I see a plethora of different opinions on everything in the news media. That being the case, I read an article that was penned with regard to Natalie Dylan. To refresh the memories of those who keep up with absurd news stories, Natalie Dylan is the young woman who is auctioning off her virginity to the highest bidder. At this point her virgin sniz is fetching a bidding price of about 3.8 million dollars. She says this whole thing started as a sociological experiment. In her own words:
They say you should value having sex for the first time. That’s why I’m auctioning my virginity online–and the bidding is up to $3.8 million.
When I put my virginity up for auction in September, it was in part a sociological experiment–I wanted to study the public’s response. Now it seems that the tables have turned, and the public is studying me.
I’m a 22-year-old woman who recently earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Women’s Studies, and soon I’ll be entering a Masters Degree program in Marriage and Family Therapy. During the time in between, in addition to my regular 9-to-5, I’ve been exploring my upcoming thesis project: the value of virginity. To be more specific, I’ve put my own virginity up for auction on the Moonlight Bunny Ranch website, and I recently received my highest bid so far: a cool $3.8 million.
…This all started long before September. In fact, it started in college, where my eyes were opened by my Women’s Studies professors and fellow classmates. I came to understand the role of “woman” spanning culture and time. At the university level, I was given permission to think differently and form a moral code of my own design. College opened my eyes.
Like most little girls, I was raised to believe that virginity is a sacred gift a woman should reserve for just the right man. But college taught me that this concept is just a tool to keep the status quo intact. Deflowering is historically oppressive–early European marriages began with a dowry, in which a father would sell his virginal daughter to the man whose family could offer the most agricultural wealth. Dads were basically their daughters’ pimps.
When I learned this, it became apparent to me that idealized virginity is just a tool to keep women in their place. But then I realized something else: if virginity is considered that valuable, what’s to stop me from benefiting from that? It is mine, after all. And the value of my chastity is one level on which men cannot compete with me. I decided to flip the equation, and turn my virginity into something that allows me to gain power and opportunity from men. I took the ancient notion that a woman’s virginity is priceless and used it as a vehicle for capitalism.
Now, most folks in the right-of-center blogosphere are appalled by this. I, however, am not nearly as shocked. What do you expect? She has a Bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies. That’s the kind of degree that’s not really worth the paper it’s printed on. Undergraduates who major in Women’s Studies do so because they want to get a degree that they won’t need to work terribly hard to achieve. This is why when an employer looks at the resume of a Women’s Studies graduate, they look at it as though it were written in crayon.
Is Natalie Dylan a prostitute? Of course she is. With a degree in Women’s Studies, that’s all she’s really qualified to do. Although in reality, she’s not even qualified to do that. She’s a virgin. She has no experience. The only thing I find shocking in this whole sordid affair is that some schlep is willing to drop $3.8 million to hit that. I personally wouldn’t go higher than $500.
I have to hand it to Natalie Dylan though. She’s going to make $3.8 million for putting out once. She won’t even be a good lay, really, and she’ll get $3.8 million for it. She won’t have to work another day in her life, which is a good thing for her. There’s not much demand in the job market for Women’s Studies graduates.
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She deserves every cent, if for nothing else than establishing the precedent. I really hope this keeps getting publicity so more women will follow in her foot steps. Well maybe not foot steps….butt print? Knowing the sophistication level of the media I don't doubt it will run for a good long time. With prices like these it won't be long before every Tina, Dian, and Harriet is selling off cherries like they're at a ice cream convention. It won't be long before the market is saturated and eventually the bubble will burst… or the cherry will pop.
In either case I couldn't care less. The world needs fewer virgins and fewer people who hold chastity and virginity up as some sacred thing. Hopefully this will get more people to actually think "what is it worth and why?" The only losers in this are the jackasses paying for virginity. Seriously, that's like hiring a blind painter to do your portrait.
Exactly my point. What kind of jackass pays 3.8 Million dollars for a piece of ass? That's like paying $700 million to the banking industry and then watching the market continue to plummet. Nobody's that stupid. </sarcasm>
Oh come on, anyone can throw $700 million dollars at a problem and not see results. It's not like they did it twice…
I just watched an interview Natalie gave. Evidently, she's plenty experienced with oral. But still a virgin, because that's not really sex. I wonder what else isn't really sex.
<a href=”http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG-6AP8DIOU“target=”_blank”><a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG-6AP8DIOU” target=”_blank”>www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG-6AP8DIOU
That depends on what your definition of "is" is.
Oops! That was actually supposed to be $700 billion with a "B". I just have a hard time counting that high.
Yeah, I blocked it out. Kinda like my after school bible study classes. Nothing happened.
Actually, I'm impressed. That's some brilliant marketing and ballsy entrepreneurship right there. From a Women's Studies graduate. Wow, who'd have thought? She deserves whatever she can convince someone to pay her, imo.
I suppose she deserves whatever she can convince some stupid schmuck to pay her. I just think the hype surrounding virginity os overrated. Just because she's a virgin doesn't mean her twizzle is worth 3.8 Million. But if that's what she gets paid, more power to her. She'll have enough money to retire and she'll finally know what they meant in her classes when they talked about the "tool of the patriarchy."
No, of course it isn't. An adventurous virgin can still be a lot of fun, though.
I wonder what's motivating the 3.8 million bid. If you're wealthy enough for that to not be a big deal, finding a willing virgin for much, MUCH less shouldn't be difficult. Does he stand to cash in on the publicity from this, too? Is he just that competitive? Or does he admire her spunk, and want to contribute some of his own
Somehow I question just how adventurous she would be after 4 years of conditioning in a University's Women's Studies curriculum. The bidding for her virginity probably reached such gargantuan levels due to a pissing contest between 2 guys with more money than brains.Who knows? Maybe the winning bidder is an executive from AIG and will pay for the auction with federal bailout money.
The military defined sex as missionary position intercourse between a man and a woman. Anything else was considered sodomy and was thus punishable under the UCMJ.
Based on those standards, it'd be pretty damned easy to avoid "sex."