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?
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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I have to throw this out there:
How shocking it will be for this virgin to realize that sex is not just a physical act; that all facets of her being will be intertwined and the pain and filth she will feel afterwards will illicit shame --and not because society says she should feel shame, but because it cannot be helped. For those used to one-night stands, the desenstization of sexual intercourse is a process over time --but for a virgin to give it away assuming no repercussions will occur? She is fooling herself into thinking it won't matter. She may try to sheild herself and remove herself from the experience, but she is playing with fire, and there is no way she can escape this experience unscathed. It will affect/effect her for the rest of her life, college paid for, be damned.
So, all ideals of virginity aside, I think the myth of sex is one that should be addressed. And that myth is that sex is purely physical and has no negative consequences to the psyche. Why people still believe this is beyond me.
[Oh, and the flip side to that? Being a long-term committed relationship (marriage!) where partners have the luxury of giving their souls and bodies to each other without fear of rejection and loneliness. It is the epitome of the sexual experience.]
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