Student selling her virginity on the web

[ringmastery]

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news3.shtml

STUDENT is so hard up she has decided to make the ultimate sacrifice ...she is selling her virginity to the highest bidder on the internet.

So far more than 400 men, many of them sickos, have placed bids offering 18-year-old Rosie Reid up to £10,000 for sex.

The drastic action has left Rosie's parents sickened. Her doctor dad has told her she "is selling her soul". Her nurse mum is outraged.

And Rosie is even willing to sleep with a man despite it being abhorrent to her—she is a LESBIAN.

But she would rather prostitute herself than see her studies suffer.

She is currently forced to work long hours in poorly paid part-time jobs to pay her tuition fees.

Rosie said: "The way things are going, I'll leave university £15,000 in debt. That's why I'm taking drastic action."

[Ilsa]

1. I wonder how she'll ever enjoy having her degree

with a price that high.

[benburch]

4. I know a lot of sexworkers...

... and the vast majority don't consider that its a bad bargain at all.

[Robb]

2. Best line:

"So far more than 400 men, many of them sickos, have placed bids."

As opposed to all those fully-functioning people who want to big on a lesbian's "virginity".

:D

[private_ryan]

37. they're men so are automatically sickos

you see, the society we created forced to do it. Not her fault...

[1a2b3c]

3. Whats the bid up to???

I got $50. All of us at DU should chip in and see if we can win this. We can turn it into a train.

[Bucky]

11. You're not just a sicko, you're a cheap sicko. So I'll kick in for ya.

[1a2b3c]

13. Thanks man

:-)

[alwynsw]

23. Maybe you can get $50.00 worth of seconds.

[HEyHEY]

5. I got $20 bucks that says JVS wins the bidding

:-)

[LincolnMcGrath]

6. Virgin and Lesbian?

:shrug:

[Kamika]

18. I found that kinda interesting too heh..

You'd think she would atleast try it once

[Exultant Democracy]

30. "I blame Zoidberg!"

[private_ryan]

38. exactly

she might be converted :)

[corporatewhore]

26. technical virgin probably

[1a2b3c]

7. Whats this???

Will bung in free massage if you are any good.

[Vote2004]

8. Something is wrong here.....

Doctor($$$) dad and nurse($$$) mom? Why is this girl so desparate?

[Robb]

9. George Bernard Shaw's famous bit:

...in which he supposedly asked a woman if she would sleep with him for a million dollars. Her response was in the affirmative. But when he asked her if she would sleep with him for 10 dollars, her response was "Sir, what do you think I am?", to which Shaw retorted "Madam, we've already determined what you are, now we're simply haggling over the price."

[Vote2004]

14. Good Point!

[TrogL]

25. that's also been ascribed to Groucho Marx

[populistmom]

10. Doesn't mean anything sometimes.

My mom's a nurse and my dad's an attorney. They never exactly had big bucks and I paid my way through college (still paying in fact the second time around). I don't think I would have considered something in this realm however. Not quite me.

[Vote2004]

15. Glad you didn't consider anything like this.

I am very proud of you! Keep sticking to your principles.

[Cleita]

12. Hmmm.

Do you have to have the midwife check her virginity out first or was that in the last century?

[name not needed]

16. too expensive

looks like i wont be betting on this one. even though it is tempting.

[BlueJazz]

17. I don't see what the big deal is.....

Geez....she's been offered £10,000 for this act.
Hell, I and nearly everybody on the planet have prostituted their
talent, body, soul or what have you, at one time or another.
I mean, how many people get up every day and go to some disgusting demeaning job to feed their family???

At least she's making some decent bucks for doing what most of us do for peanuts.

[put out]

39. You got peanuts, too?

Shoot, shoot, shoot. I should have held out for some peanuts. I didn't get money, and I didn't even get the peanuts. Mama said there would be days like this.

I'm with you, by the way. Why not sell, if some dude is deluded enough to think p*ssy is made of gold. Only thing is, 50% of population has pretty much the same stuff. Go figure.

[arikara]

19. I think the idea has its merits.

It sure beats selling a kidney like so many are doing now when they need money. I think I'd be worried mostly about her safety.

I had to retrain and am still paying off student loans... after 5 years they never seem to go down. Somehow I don't think anyone would pay a 40 year old woman $10,000 though, although shouldn't experience should count for something?

But the bottom line is that nobody should have to do something like this in order to get an education.

[Cleita]

20. Nah, you'd have to throw your thirteen year old daughter

into the deal. However, most dominatrix types are of a certain age. How do you look in fish net stockings, a leather bustier and a whip? :evilgrin:

[fortyfeetunder]

21. Offer good only once...

I hope Rosy realizes that once she gives up her virginity, she can't really sell herself again for a price that high...like used goods...

[mdmc]

22. Anyone read, Memoirs of a Gashia?

Don't they have community college there?

[Nikia]

24. Don't know her parents finances but

If this really upsets them, perhaps they could find some extra cash if possible or get loans themselves. Obviously if they are having a difficult making ends meet or are in heay debt already, this would not be an option. I do know middle class students that did feel desperate and had to work long hours because they did not qualify for a large percentage of aid and their parents were unwilling to help out. I have a coworker who refuses to help her daughter and would be able to some extent even though her daughter has sold all her musical instruments, which she admitted she felt kind of bad about, and is having a difficult time staying in school working full time. Perhaps, that is this girl's point also.
If they really cannot help, I wouldn't have done that. In a way she is getting a good deal though. She probably is curious about heterosexual sex and sees this as a way of finding a partner who she won't have to see again and pay her tuition at the same time.

[Blue_Tires]

27. who says

girls don't have all the fun?? She's getting a pretty good rate, imo...Makes you wonder if she won't turn this into a full-time gig, especially when she sees what kind of pay the rest of us work much harder for.

On another note, no one has ever been able to explain why virgins are more desirable than more experienced women..I'm sorry; but in the past, sex with woefully inexperienced women has been far more trouble than it's worth...Any day, give me the woman (disease free, of course) who knows 5000 ways to please a man...

Furthermore, i must admit that i am dismayed that I'm up to my eyeballs in debt and i can't find anyone to pay 15,000 USD for access to my sexual wares for a night. More power to her, i guess...guys like me will continue to work crap jobs and play the lotto

[SoCalDem]

28. Gee.. what a family values place e-bay is.. e-prostitution

she's selling it.. I bet a cop will be buying it :(

[Lostmessage]

29. Did you read this part?

"I think Tony Blair and Charles Clarke are encouraging a class divide, which is wrong and goes against all of Labour's principles"

No kidding and Bush is doing the same thing over here.

[Lostmessage]

31. How can she be a virgin if she is a lesbian?

She has had sex with another woman but she is a virgin. That don't sound right.

[kayell]

32. When I first saw this I was appalled, but then thought of my roommate in

college. When she was unable to keep up with payments for tuition, she worked for a while in a massage parlor, that didn't do enough, and was horrid work, so she joined the marines for the tuition benefits.

Which is worse - selling your body for a few minutes, or selling your body and soul for several years?

[Dogmudgeon]

33. Don't Do It, Rosie!

You'll be desecrating the holy institution of Marriage!

You're not supposed to give your sacred innocence to a man offering the largest amount of money -- you're supposed to give it to a man offering the largest income.

You could be having sex with an icky, swarthy, fat (perish the thought!) civil servant with hair on his back just because he ponies up £15000, instead of a real, slim, athletic, blond-haired, blue-eyed Prince with tens of millions intelligently invested with some of the most Prestigious financial houses in Europe!

Think about it. You're prostituting yourself for a single bonk with a sicko, when you could be marketing yourself in the Free Marketplace of Love to only the most highly-qualified, rigo(u)rously screened Gentlemen of Substance!

Don't debase yourself! It's not about money -- it's about wealth!

--bkl
Cynical, you say?

Edit: Much like Oscar Wilde did, I took out a period, and added a comma.

[Lostmessage]

34. She might get a book deal and a movie out of it as well

:hi:

[ThomWV]

35. Way To Expensive - Just Ask Neil

I think in order to see if the price is reasonable someone should check with Neil Bush. Just ask him how much he's been paying for young pussy in Thailand. From there its just a matter of doing a currency conversion.

Thom

[radwriter0555]

36. GOOD FOR HER! Heck if a man is STUPID enough to PAY for it, then why

NOT? It's just SEX. She has a commodity she's willing to barter for cash. Some idiotic man is stupid enough to want to pay it? Hell yeah, GO for it!

Excellent!

It's not like she's marrying the guy. He gets 4 minutes, she gets a pile of cash and her university paid for. Hella deal I say.

[Kamika]

40. Isn't it illegal?

You know.. selling sex

[blondeatlast]

41. NOTW is the British equivalent of the Weekly World News,

and that's all I'm saying about this.