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Virginity for sale.

By: Paul Cella (Diary)  |  January 12th, 2009 at 02:07 PM  | 

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A woman with a peculiarly mercenary streak is auctioning off her virginity for a considerable sum of money: $3.7 million, according to this Telegraph report. It’s one way to beat the recession, I suppose. The idea of enterprising degradation came to her, it is further reported, because her sister was able to pay for “her own degree after working as a prostitute for three weeks.” Ain’t that nice?

Don’t miss the remarkable statement that concludes that Telegraph report: “It’s shocking that men will pay so much for someone’s virginity, which isn’t even prized so highly anymore.”

It’s rare for so much irony to be packed into a single sentence. One could note that only in the modern age could someone claim that it is “shocking” for men to prize purity and chastity, which are exemplified above all in virginity. One might observe that the whole impetus for her offer was a keen insight into how highly prized purity still is, even refracted through a distorting lens of degradation. One might therefore observe that the subordinate phrase in this poor woman’s statement is, strictly speaking, horse puckey; and that all the force of mercenary instinct, of licentiousness, of free love and all the other heresies of the modern age — in a word, all the force of that ponderous amalgam of Capitalism and License which has become the very mark of our society — cannot efface what human sexuality actually is. Even the most hidebound evolutionist or materialist can arrive at the truth of the importance of chastity, which is the source of the power of female sexuality.

Even the evolutionist can discover that female chastity is a thing of extraordinary power. Even he must realize that when a man proceeds to estimate the chances of carrying his genetic features into the next generation, a great portion of the estimate must hinge on the fidelity of his mate. And the only true surety in this estimate is virginity. Fidelity is built upon that.

In base economic terms, this woman is selling herself short. Her virginity, her purity, her chastity is worth much more than 3 or 4 million dollars. Ten times that amount would probably fall short. And the puzzle is how exactly it came to be that the modern age convinced so many women to throw away their most prized asset, all the while calling it a grand liberation.

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  • Tbone

    like the rest of us.

    Gee, I traded mine for a pocketfull of used movie tickets and pizza parlor receipts.

    Sorry, but as a sample of modern moral decay this silly story just doesn’t do current depavity justice.

    • Paul Cella

      That’s a good line.

      But I did not present it as an instance of moral decay. I presented it as an instance of irony.

      • lapert

        I don’t really get the irony you are trying to claim. I mean, the men certainly aren’t valuing her chastity – they are seeking to destroy it. As for valuing her purity, maybe they are doing but not as a thing to admire but as a thing to claim as one’s own – I mean they aren’t valuing her for her purity and chastity at all they are bidding on a one night stand. It seems more like they are valuing some sort of fetish and noteriaty above anything (certainly they aren’t expecting good sex from a virgin).

        And, since the idea came from the experience of her sister, whose chastity and purity was certainly gone by the end of the first week if she ever had it at all, I think the woman’s observation is a fair one.

        I also think it naive to claim that chastity is the power of female sexuality – there is a reason prostitution is called the oldest profession and it is not because men like to pay for chastity.

        • Paul Cella

          again for the rhetorical elisions, While virginity is not a category that if lost, can ever be recovered, purity and chastity certainly are. So a woman may restore them — in true marriage.

  • zuiko

    The article is pretty short on facts, the most basic being where this was listed. This wouldn’t be allowed on something like ebay, and even if she listed this there hoping it would run up in price (and get attention) before being deleted, she is just going to to just get crazy illegitimate bids. There will never be any transaction. There’s also the issue that this is an illegal contract she wants to enter into here. Might be kind of difficult for either party to try to enforce that contract. So I don’t buy it.

    As for the value… If this woman is willing to sell herself as a common prostitute to the highest bidder, where is the purity? There isn’t any. She had demonstrated far less purity than most sexually experienced women as a consequence of her offer of prostitution (bogus or real).

    • Tbone

      8347 results. There must be a real one in there somewhere.

    • Paul Cella

      Could be wholly bogus.

    • Raven

      I first heard about it almost a year ago and went looking
      You can find it on the website for the Kitty Kat Club in Nevada.

  • David Hinz

    “One might observe that the whole impetus for her offer was a keen insight into how highly prized purity still is, even refracted through a distorting lens of degradation.”

    A-freaking-Men!

    • David Hinz

      that very sentence has application in politics as well, on several other postings today!

    • Paul Cella

      You’ll noticed that while I put out the pedantry, Francis added the true humor.

  • maddog

    Why pay $3.7 million for one virgin when Allah can give you 72 for…..

  • http://www.scottbomb.com scottbomb

    A sucker is born every day and I’m glad to see there isn’t a shortage! I sure would like to get my hands on the list of bidders.

    Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go find that deed to the Brooklyn Bridge. I know it’s around here somewhere…

  • bs

    If she was in Nevada, probably not a problem. But CA?

    • http://www.scottbomb.com scottbomb

      Then it’s free speech!

      • Kowalski

        I have to say that the only women I’ve really loved in my life began their relationships with me as chaste, including the one that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. We spent more than year learning to be friends before we slept together and I don’t think that was time misspent: from the point of view of our relationship at the time, it made it much stronger — and much, much more difficult to sever.

        The absolute worst and shortest-lived relationships, if you can even call them that, were the ones based on instant gratification. There were a few, and I’m quite sure that both parties regretted, or at the very least felt bittersweet about them afterward.

        Aside from that, never neglect the Fark Factor in news that is reported by the Daily Telegraph. It’s a painful lesson to learn. Remember: it’s not news, it’s Fark!

        I have the feeling that most people still aren’t promiscuous: they tend to joke around more than they’re serious about spreading it around. That’s because both men and women still know, despite all the licenses society has given them, that when you love someone, you really do love them, or something is wrong, probably with both of you.

        It would be nice if more music reflected that again, though. There really aren’t very many good love songs today. I miss that. I miss songs like this:

        This is just one of the simpler ones, there are many, many others. The world has become much coarser in that sense.

        • Kowalski

          But what I have seen on more than one occasion where I live are women who choose to stay with men not because they love them, but because they’re the best they can find:

          They’re not drug addicts, criminals, or people who will scream at them and/or smack them around. You’d be surprised what else they’ll tolerate when those criteria are met, and it’s a lot. Throw in being halfway decent with their children and that seals the deal, and you get a lot of people like the ones I see here in Massachusetts…serially unmarried “unconventional” family structures, kind of making it from one month to the next.

          Massachusetts loves those kinds of families, because they fly apart very easily and the pieces of them all need State assistance.

          The problem is that men themselves have been devalued to the point that a lot of good women are having to choose the “best of the dregs.” Men allowed this to happen to themselves.

  • Menlo

    Somehow, I doubt one would find such an ad for a man. Where did the double standard for men and women come from? Men always seem to get a pass. The British papers before have dedicated stories to adult women who have remained pure their whole lives as though they were museum exhibits that belonged under glass (much as the mainstream media sees Christians who take their faith seriously).

    Anyway, is virginity not something women (or society) values as much in men?

    I don’t get it.

  • momac

    I hardly think this is newsworthy, but surely no reason to be outraged. Worse is going on within a block of you at any given moment. Further, her decision in no way impacts my life or my morals– someone else’s bad behavior is not mine.

    As to the value, I think she’s gotten far more than she’s worth. There are millions of women in the world, and this being a one-night stand she’s offering, and her not being the most attractive girl in her age range, you could spend a year with a better looking virgin every night for the kind of money she’s getting. Maybe a month if you restrict yourself to the first world. The worth that a chaste woman puts on her own self is not applicable here,
    this is supply and demand. And she has way outperformed the market.

    As for the end, I have to again point out that ‘the modern age’ has nothing to do with the individual, unless we are all truly our brothers’ keepers and our own morality is in their hands. I don’t think it is.

    One more thing, this has nothing to do with the modern age, other than the method of advertising maybe. There were no ‘good old days’, no grand moral days. There is nostalgia, and there are families that lived as they should, then as there are now, but no period in time has some claim of moral superiority or inferiority.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • Paul Cella

    There were no ?good old days?, no grand moral days. There is nostalgia …

    There is also the Christian philosophy, which has not been tried and found wanting, but been found difficult and left untried.

    My invocation of the modern age was only an attempt to situate our rather bizarre and tedious sexual ethos, which gave up on excitement and mystery decades ago. If you prefer a different term than modern I’m all ears.

  • Achance
  • Bob_Frazier

    There are still some of us who see this and realize what little value human life and human dignity have anymore. How crass and immoral our age has become. At least people used to have shame over things like this. Even when I was young but apparently no more.

    From virgin to prostitute all in the same moment. How proud her parents must be of her and her sister.

    What lucky guys will end up marrying these two.

  • Finrod

    However, some might say that I’ve been making up for lost time since. :-)

  • Aaron Gardner

    The Catholic church should buy her virginity and not allow her to have sex until she is married.

    Imagine the cries and outbursts from the left…..;^)

  • Finrod

    .

  • phxg

    nt

  • Achance

    in Tiajuana or wherever American soldiers were stationed in large numbers: Hey GI, you buy my mother, she a virgin!

    I think I’d insist on an independent medical opinion.

  • Aaron Gardner

    although, I wouldn’t want to be the one who had to verify this….imagine the grief you would get from your wife…

    “I was just doing my job honey”

    “yeh..sure you were”

    ;^)

  • Aaron Gardner

    Not sure the linked article really missed the mark…after all it is not the purity that is valued in this purchase…it is the destruction of that purity that is really of value to those who are bidding for it.

  • http://dezignworx-ae.com tsquare

    I have a moral issue with this…

    No pu… errr… woman… errrr… sex… is worth 3.6 million.

    Hell I won’t pay a hundred bucks

    Anyway… what happened to the recession?

  • mikefisk

    …not only is there that sort of power relationship initially implied, there’s the degree of trust inherent in it that makes it appealing.

    That being said, I’d rather have somebody I’m close to that I’ve developed a connection with, amount of experience notwithstanding.

  • Paul Cella

    I was pretty slippery with terms.

    But of course the virtue of chastity is fully compatible with the sacrament of marriage. The idea that the Christian tradition “hates” sex is perfect stupidity.

  • Aaron Gardner
  • Jaded

    be learing perhaps salivating :-)