"I’m a 22-year-old woman who recently earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Women’s Studies, and soon I’ll be entering a Masters Degree program in Marriage and Family Therapy. During the time in between, in addition to my regular 9-to-5, I’ve been exploring my upcoming thesis project: the value of virginity. To be more specific, I’ve put my own virginity up for auction on the Moonlight Bunny Ranch website, and I recently received my highest bid so far: a cool $3.8 million....."[Read more here ... she's pretty articulate.]
Watch her on Tyra Banks' show (be prepared to hate Tyra Banks even more):
A: In my opinion, yes.
In economic terms, female virginity is society's longest-surviving price bubble - in layman's terms: one gigantic cherry that keeps on growing but just won't pop. Someday, in a fairer, future era, a solid chunk of society will question whether there is actually that much more value to a woman's chastity than a man's, and decide that there probably shouldn't be. Or too many women will follow Natalie's example, creating a surplus and driving down value. Either way, female virginity markets are bound to crash like it's 2008, and then eventually recover to more realistic values - values that are, for example, far above zero but low enough that an inopportune loss of which doesn't incite murder.
The way I feel about Natalie capitalizing on the female virginity price bubble when the market's still hot (to the degree of $3.8 million, apparently) is the same way I feel about abortion, devout religiousness, and raw broccoli: I'll defend to the death anyone's rights to choose them, but none for me, thanks.
Funny thing is, some critics of Natalie's morals are the same ones whose borderline-sexist morals and sensationalization of female virginity over male virginity create the societal fixation on the former, allowing self-capitalization to be a viable option for females but not males (generally speaking ... I know there are male prostitutes, but that's not about virginity: no guy to my knowledge has garnered bids of $3.8 million for his cherry). Look in the mirror, people! We have no one but ourselves to blame.
