Sole Morality

Where did your tuition money come from?

Well here I am taking out student loans like a sucker while Natalie Dylan is going to pay for her Marriage and Family Therapy Masters program in one night: she is auctioning off her virginity to the highest bidder. It is apparently a new twist on an old idea as she indicates that “she was persuaded to offer herself to the highest bidder after her sister Avia, 23, paid for her own degree after working as a prostitute for three weeks.”

This 22 year old from San Diego, California claims to have already gotten more than 10,000 bidders with the high bid to date being $3.7 million.

Miss Dylan “who has a degree in Women's Studies insisted she was not demeaning herself. ”

I guess that is all a matter of perspective. You can’t demean yourself by doing something that you see as acceptable and not lacking in dignity. To be demeaned requires a loss of respect and in her view, this isn’t something disrespectful.

But then, I am left wondering why she remained a virgin so long if losing her virginity is not demeaning. So that she could share it with someone special? That’s certainly not what she is doing now. Especially since she is insisting that this is a one night stand: "I get some men who are obviously looking for a girlfriend but I try and make it clear that this is a one-night-only offer. “

The article concludes with her being quoted as saying, "It's shocking that men will pay so much for someone's virginity, which isn't even prized so highly anymore."

I’m going to have to disagree. Apparently virginity is highly prized. Just not by her.

What are your thoughts? Why is the bidding getting so high if virginity has little value in today’s society?