In September, “Natalie Dylan” announced she would be auctioning off her virginity to pay for graduate school. She wants to get a degree in Family & Marriage Therapy after completion of her degree in Women’s Studies, and does not see auctioning sex as demeaning.
Ms. Dylan proudly follows in the steps of her older sister, who worked at the Bunny Ranch in Nevada as a prostitute to pay for her degree. To date, she claims to have offers up to $3.7 million dollars for the one night stand.
She said “It is shocking that men will pay so much for someone’s virginity, which isn’t even prized so highly anymore.”
Ms Dylan has divorced sex from any emotion, and I wonder how this “transaction” will affect the rest of her life. Will she ever get over the label of “prostitute” (as she is selling sex for money)? After this great divorce of emotions and physicality, can she ever get back to the marriage of sex and love?
Have we come to this as a society – that purity is auctioned off to the highest bidder – in the end leaving both parties without it?
Has sex merely become a commodity? Give me this material thing and I’ll trade you that sexual behavior. Forget love, commitment, chastity and purity, it’s all about me and my instant (monetary) gratification.
