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The student says 'potential sums involved are too large to be dismissed' |
A medical student in the US is auctioning her virginity online,
having been inspired by the figures offered to Natalie Dylan, who received bids
of $3.7 million dollars (£.2.2million) for hers in 2009.
The student, who has adopted the
name Elizabeth Raine to conceal her true identity, has set up a website for
prospective bidders to learn more about her and place bids. The auction will
open on 1 April.
Raine is offering the winning bidder
a 12-hour date and the opportunity to take her virginity in a deal she
describes as "primarily financially motivated".
The 27-year-old has taken an
extremely business-like approach to the auction by enlisting the help of an
agent and even offering to undertake a medical examination to provide evidence
of her virginity.
Her website features numerous shots
of herself in her underwear and with her face obscured, alongside detailed
information about herself and how the transaction would proceed.
Despite the obvious risks to both
her physical and mental well-being, Raine insists she will not feel “violated,
degraded, or of lesser value in any which way” after the experience, but
admitted to feeling “a bit jittery about it”.
She denies being concerned that her
auction will be considered tantamount to prostitution, instead countering that
“prostitute is a very simple and stigmatised label for a complex and diverse
profession".
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| Raine's website includes detailed information about her and bidding details |
“There are truly all sorts of prostitutes
(sadly many are very oppressed, but some like me are not) and lumping them all
together and condemning them all equally serves no right purpose,” she explains
on her website.
Her reasons for deciding to lose her
virginity in such a dramatic fashion are detailed in a biography, but she
summarises them as: “money, the adventure, the eroticism, the scandal, the
absurdity”.
“My primary motivation remains
financial,” she admits, “and I can’t insult you by pretending otherwise.
“I have never viewed myself to be a
materialistic person, at least no more than is natural, but the potential sums
involved are too large to be dismissed.”
However, she also discusses the
possibility of somehow "being led into the arms of a gentleman" in
the form of the winning bidder, who Raine hopes will have "similar
appreciation for these unique circumstances, and make my first time worthy of
both the wait and lasting memory."
Unlike other women across the world
who have put their virginity up for auction, Raine is “97.7 per cent” certain
she will go through with it.
“I have never been very religious.
This probably explains in part why I am able to do this without moral
objection”, she said.
“I am not devoid of a moral code
though, as some might like you to believe. I have just formed my own code - one
I like to believe is founded on a world education and human emotion.”
Raine also plans to donate 35 per
cent of the winning bid to charity bringing education to women in developing
countries.
A large sum.... Who is gonna pay that money?
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