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demoleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 12:36 PM
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New Zealand virgin auctions herself for tuition
Source: ap

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A New Zealand teenager who says she auctioned her virginity online for $32,000 to raise tuition money did not break any laws but it might be risky for her to follow through on the deal, police warned Wednesday.

The anonymous 19-year-old student offered her virginity to the highest bidder on the Web site http://www.ineed.co.nz under the name "Unigirl," saying she would use the money to pay for her tuition. She said in a post that more than 30,000 people had viewed her ad and more than 1,200 had made bids before she accepted an offer of more than New Zealand dollars 45,000 ($32,000).
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Prostitution is legal in New Zealand under laws considered more liberal than many countries. Prostitution among consenting adults is allowed in brothels and on the streets, and offering sexual services in print ads and online is also legal.

National police spokesman Jon Neilson said no law appeared to have been breached.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_hi_te/as_new_zealand_virginity_auction



not the first case emerged. some in europe as well.
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T Wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 12:38 PM
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1. If it's good enough for Congress, why not?
Edited on Wed Feb-03-10 12:39 PM by T Wolf
But then, our Congress contains no virgins (in the business of govt.bribery).
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 12:39 PM
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2. You think Congress is full of virgins?
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 12:41 PM
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4. I think anybody can spot a typo, but it takes a real arse to capitalize on it.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 12:42 PM
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5. The big difference: Congress sells its "virginity" many times over.
Every two years, Congress becomes a "virgin;" only with the same pimps and Johns...
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 12:40 PM
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3. What a sad state that country must be in, to force someone to take such a desperate action
:cry:
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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 12:45 PM
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6. They didn't force her. However I understand your point and I agree totally.
The US is full of people who also would have gone to college but couldn't afford it.
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MUAD_DIB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 12:56 PM
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10. How many college kids would you say strip for cash?
They do it now. It's not right that they have to, but I bet they do it.


...or sadly, what the girl in NZ resorted to.
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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 01:07 PM
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12. True, and there have been prostitutes in this country that said they do it to pay for college.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 01:56 PM
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16. My college roommate was a high priced escort
I tried to help her put together a modeling portfolio as an alternative, but she preferred what she was doing. People choose their own paths. As long as they are the ones making the choice then I figure it's not for us to judge.
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Abq_Sarah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 12:52 PM
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9. Force?
The story is short on facts. For instance, we don't know if she tried to do this the old fashioned way... by working and earning money to pay for school. Was she employable or is she just looking for fast money so she wouldn't have to get a job?
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Rebubula Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 01:28 PM
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14. LOLZ
No one forced anyone to do anything.

However, sometimes you must make strange decisions to get what you want.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 12:48 PM
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7. I hope nothing bad happens to her. She is putting herself at serious risk to her life.
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 03:06 PM
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19. I really doubt that.
Anyone able to pony up $32,000 for sex is going to be readily identifiable to the police, and smart enough to know that.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 05:05 PM
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23. Smart enough to know that? How many criminals thought they were smart and got caught?
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 06:09 PM
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25. They don't have to be able to pony up $32K, only able to convince her that they will.
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corkhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 12:51 PM
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8. .
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zazen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 01:01 PM
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11. the sensation of breaking a hymen is worth buying someone for 32K?
I guess evolutionary psychologists would say that male primates could even be more certain of paternity if they were the first on the scene with a "fit" young female. That's about as sympathetic as I can get toward males who actively seek this crap.

It just never ceases to amaze me how profoundly insecure and soulless males who seek "virgins" must be. . . are they that scared of being compared to a past lover? Is the sensation of tightness and causing bleeding that much of a turnon? Is the likelihood of causing one's lover to cry in pain thrilling? Is it the hope that the deflowered virgin will someone impute a sudden discovery of sexual ecstasy to the "skills" of the deflowerer, as if sexual ecstasy is had the first go round and his "skills" (like a thrusting penis of a pathetic virgin-seeker breaking through a hymen) had anything to do with it?

This Lolita shit makes me want to puke.

And women and girls sell themselves all the time. She's just more efficient about it. One fuck and be done with it. And at least she feels like she exercised some choice in the matter.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 01:52 PM
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15. As opposed to in many places, where fathers pay to have their daughters
married off and "deflowered" against her will. People do a lot of degrading things to earn money for college. At least this is only a one night gig (though it certainly isn't entirely "safe"), instead of several years worth of selling oneself for minimum wage.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 04:27 PM
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22. i've never understood the fascination
give me a woman with some experience; someone i won't have to teach everything from square one...
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cosmicone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 08:43 PM
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27. It is none of the above
The real attraction is finite immortality .... the whole world may forget you but a virgin that you deflowered will remember you as long as she lives.
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Rapier09 Donating Member (209 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 01:17 PM
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13. What's the big deal?
She might decide she really wants to be with the guy afterwards(for some reason)but that is going to be her problem.

And at least she will have made some real money.
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 05:54 PM
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24. Right, because this is the way for women to go, eh?
:eyes:
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 02:18 PM
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17. Gross.
Who would want to fuck a virgin anyway? I never have, it seems like it would more hassle then fun.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 04:19 PM
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20. I concur. Virgins are just gross.
What pervert would want a virgin over someone who knows what their doing?
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 04:24 PM
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21. Someone who doesn't know what *they* are doing..
And wants to have a person that won't laugh at their clumsiness..
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 03:05 PM
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18. deleted
Edited on Wed Feb-03-10 03:05 PM by Xithras
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 06:19 PM
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26. Leave it to Yahoo. First thread I ever unrecommended. Amazing, though, that so little money pays
for tuition there. Especially if she intends to pay income taxes on it. She probably has not thought that far, but I bet the taxing authorities there will see if they can find her.
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