Why I’m Selling My Virginity - With Video
Seriously?
“Women’s Studies”, huh?
Um … wow …
by Natalie Dylan
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.
In addition to bids, however, I’ve also received an astonishing, sometimes unnerving, amount of media attention. Many of these reports have portrayed me inaccurately, however, so let me tell you what this is all about.
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.
Are you rolling your eyes? I knew this experiment would bring me condemnation. But I’m not saying every forward-thinking person has to agree with what I’m doing. You should develop your own personal belief system—that’s exactly my point! For me, valuing virginity as sacred is simply not a concept I could embrace. But valuing virginity monetarily—now that’s a concept I could definitely get behind. I no longer view the selling of sex as wrong or immoral—my time at college showed me that I had too blindly accepted such arbitrary norms. And for what it’s worth, the winning bid won’t necessarily be the highest—I get to choose.
So, with this value system firmly in place, I contacted the organization I felt could best provide me a safe and legal means through which to execute my idea: The Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Reno, Nevada.
I have been to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch twice to meet with its larger-than-life owner, Dennis Hof. I would describe the environment as a comical hybrid of a sorority house crossed with a laid-back gentlemen’s club.
The Ranch not only provided me with the publicity to reach bidders through a personal email address on their website, but also as a way to capture a big enough “sample” of the public so I could research their reactions.
Some of these reactions have been surprising. As expected, many people value virginity itself—people who think it’s important to save, and men who think it’s valuable enough to buy. But I’ve discovered that others value the lucrative nature of my experiment even more. I’ve been congratulated for my “entrepreneurial gumption,” as one CEO of a Fortune 500 company put it.
I might even be an early adopter of a future trend, if the ads that clutter Craigslist are any indication of the direction we’re headed in. These days, more and more women my age are profiting directly from their sex appeal, but I’m not sure other women should follow my lead. One conclusion my experiment has already borne out is that society isn’t ready for public auctions like mine—yet.
Natalie Dylan has a B.A. in Women’s Studies. She is from San Diego. “Natalie Dylan” is a pseudonym.
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uh your trying to alleviate the stereotype by becoming a whore?
Damn over $3mil.
Even Spitzer can’t afford that.
Gimmie five dollars worth!
Why I’m selling my virginity:
Because you’re an opportunistic whore?
Bet she’s not even a virgin.
To paraphrase Gertrude Stein.. A Ho is a Ho is a Ho…
Man goes into a bar and approaches the lady seated there and says “a million if you sleep with me” she replies “sure”
he drinks his drink then turns and says to her “I changed my mind 10 bucks” at which she angrily retorts “what kind of girl do you think I am!” He says ” That’s already been established, now we’re just haggling price”.
Matthew 16:26 (New International Version)
26What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
B.A. in “Women Studies” = B.S. as in bullshit. This chick is nothing but a two bit whore. Another few thousand in college tuition down the shitter.
Hey, everyone’s a whore, it’s just that we all have a price.
How do you think Congress got to where they are?
Fuck all that, let Capt. Kirk go where no man has gone before. Especially if she is some liberal “feminist” movement believing dumb ass.
“Deflowering” was not a concept to keep women in check. It was the sentiment that both man and wife were pure, and stayed so for each other. It was the concept that the gift of life was shared between a man and a woman who loved each other enough to marry and commit their lives to each other, hence, offering each other their purity in order to produce a pure soul on earth to accompany them in the form of a child, and as many times after that as they could provide for. Oppressive? Only if you are in such a state with your soul that you are already at odds with what God has told you through His word.
For $3.8 million, I would damned sure make you never want to have sex again. I think a week without a shower and plenty of trips to the land fill could do the trick. Then there is “the face”. Oh, yeah, I would imprint a “face” in your memory that you would never be able to forget, and each time you tried to offer that broken ass to someone else, you wouldn’t be able to see anything but “that face”… Hmm, for $3.8 mil, I might even take my time and make as many of “the faces” as I could. Sex for ten hours? You up for it? For $3.8 million you had better be up for it for an eternity, why? Cause you aren’t just gonna be sellin it to the rich guy. Your soul is sold right on down the line. For $3.8 mil, you had better hope that God has mercy on you, cause I wouldn’t… Welcome to the very slavery you decry in your comments about your decision to ‘liberate’ yourself. When you face St. Peter, see if he’s interested in, ya know, a “tip” to be let into the club… My bet is that he will recognize you for the trash you are…
So what kind of head case are we dealing with in this 22 year old young woman named Natalie, who is going from supposedly never having had heterosexual penetrative sex to engaging in an act that is prostitution and that, according to Natalie, she is open to doing in any way to please the man?
This belongs in the world of the day time shows like Jerry Springer. This is not worthy of “university study.”
That’s a high dollar whore, right there.
Some TV show should win the auction, then find the FUGLIEST dude going (the FUGLIST virgin guy!), then videotape the whole thing and sell it on the Internet.
I’m a genius.
a stupid whore
“—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.”
that’s some education she has, got it backwards, the “dowry” she speaks of, which still continues today in some cultures, is give by the brides parents to the groom and/or grooms parents to accept the daughter.
how on earth could she try and pass that off? and how’d she get her degree? blowing and banging her way thru college?
stupid whore
I offer five million if I can videotape her blowing and getting banged by my rottie, I’ve got a friend in Nigeria that will send her the funds upon execution of the contract.
“At the university level, I was given permission to think differently and form a moral code of my own design. College opened my eyes.”
Translation: My Liberal Professors and Classmates taught me that anything goes and anything can be rationalized and justified.
“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.”
Translation: My Liberal Professors taught me that it is all the Eauropean White Males faults.
“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.”
Translation: I realized that I could get paid for that thing I sit on most of the day.
She is a product of the same type of worthless Liberal parents that brought up John Walker Lindh.
Jenny,
You know what “face” I am talking about, huh? lol
Yeah, I want my stapler back…