The price of virginity

[Gob]

WHAT sort of man will pay $12,000 for an 18-year-old's virginity?



This is what Sweet Girls Premium Escort, which is offering a Chinese-born Melbourne high school student, hopes to find out.

The Sydney escort agency says this "rare opportunity" starts from May 19.

"She is a virgin, you can tell," a spokeswoman told The Sun-Herald.

"She goes to your place or hotel and you can spend two days together. She does not have a boyfriend and she wants to do it for the money," she said.

The escort agency recruits mostly Asian women aged 18 to 25 and suggests to potential workers they can make easy cash.

The website written in English and Chinese suggests working for the agency "to solve your financial problem within short time".

It continues: "Want to earn tuition fee? Reduce your family financial burden? Want to buy luxury brand like Louis Vuitton, etc? Please contact us immediately!! We will tailor a work plan to help you resolve your financial problem within short time!!"

The agency's website has photos of the girl but her face is obscured.

Women's advocate Melinda Tankard Reist said the virginity sale and promotion of luxury goods as a cause to work for exposed the brothel's lack of ethics.

"If the woman is in financial need then the brothel is a vulture preying on her financial desperation.

"Are they putting the girl's interests first or profiting from her and don't care about what happens the night she loses her virginity?" she said.

"No woman should have to sell her body for education. Has anyone asked why she needs the money? If she is a schoolgirl, is the school involved? Shouldn't teachers or staff look at her situation and help find a better way?"

Ms Tankard Reist also questioned what sort of man was attracted to this proposition.

"This raises a lot of questions. Why would someone want to pay to take a girl's virginity?"

Leading Feminist Eva Cox, said it was a "very crappy" situation for all involved.

"Something is wrong in society to encourage this sort of behaviour but this prurient interest about a financial transaction is also a worry.

"I think sex work itself is a perfectly legitimate occupation but I just don't think this is a good way to start one's sex life," she said.

Feminist social commentator, Nina Funnell, said there was a double standard when it came to male and female virginity.

"As a society we still fetishise female virginity by artificially binding it to notions of purity and, in doing so, ascribe a sort of moral character and value to the female hymen. A man who would pay this amount has bought into this and is reaffirming the importance of that perceived purity by assigning a market value to it.

"Moral crusaders intent on banning sex work will also respond to this with unusual levels of zeal," she said.

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[The Hen]

Two days with a virgin?

She may not physically be up for much after she has just lost her virginity. I know I wasn't.






(Though that probably doesn't matter one whit to someone who would bid for such an item.)

[MajGenl.Meade]

Leading Feminist Eva Cox....

oh you can't be serious??!!!

[Lord Jim]

I've never understood this "thing" some men apparently have for virgins...(And I don't know any men who have this fascination, so I can't ask any...I understand that it's more prevalent in some cultures than others...)

To me, it makes no more sense than wanting to play tennis with somebody who's never held a racket....

The only thing I can figure is that these guys must be worried that they're so lousy in the sack that if they sleep with a virgin she won't have any one to compare it to and thus won't know how bad they are....

[Andrew D]

I'm with Lord Jim on this, with one exception. I think that he is dead-on with respect to non-virginal men who have a thing for virginal women.

The exception which I see is that of virginal men who have a thing for virginal women and the other way around. I can see the attraction -- although even in my non-virginal days I did not share it -- that a virginal person might have for another virginal person: We can experience this first time together, and that can (perhaps) create a special bond between us.

Beyond that, though, I just don't get it. I think that, lamentably, Lord Jim is probably right about this:

The only thing I can figure is that these guys must be worried that they're so lousy in the sack that if they sleep with a virgin she won't have any one to compare it to and thus won't know how bad they are....

But back in the day when I was worried -- and given my lack of experience, probably rightly so -- about being lousy in the sack, what I wanted was an experienced (and compassionate and communicative) woman to teach me. And I found that a frank admission ("I'm not completely new at this, but I'm pretty close") yielded better results than a pretense of experience which I did not actually possess.

[Lord Jim]

Okay, Let me warn you right now that you're about to enter....


TOO MUCH INFORMATION THEATER.....

The first girl I ever had sex with (by sex I mean intercourse...) was a virgin....

I was 14, she was 15...

I could tell before we got to that point that we were headed in that direction...

I didn't want her to think that, when the time came, as it were, I was well, inexperienced....

By that time I had had the good fortune to stumble upon my father's pornography collection...

Which gave me sort of a guide...

I learned about how to make love to a woman from 60's and 70's pornography and sexual "self help " manuals of that era... that stressed the importance of the pleasure of the woman, and giving your partner "multiple orgasms"...."vaginal orgasms? clitoral orgasms?...geez this looked complicated....

The idea of just, "climb on top, thrust a few times and go to sleep", has just never been a part of what I thought I should do...(any guy who learns how to be a lover from porno is likely to be a good lover...I've always had Ron Jeremy as my model for being a lover...)

But getting back to the story, the most important thing to me was to make sure she wouldn't think it was my first time....(I had, uh, kinda told her it wasn't....)

So I set myself to the task of making sure she wouldn't know this...

I decided to take advantage of my exposure to my father's pornography collection to avoid this embarrassment...

In one book, I found a diagram of the vagina:


It looked a lot like that...

And I said to myself:

"Oh geez, that thing looks like the internal workings of a nuclear reactor..."

"How the hell am I supposed to figure out how to deal with that, between now and Friday night? "

Why can't girls have sexual organs as easy to figure out as we guys have?

Well, ultimately it worked out okay....

[Joe Guy]

That's much more than twat I needed to know.

[Scooter]

I second twat.

[dales]

So that's what they look like!

[Joe Guy]

Yes.

That's twat they look like.

[BoSoxGal]

Did I stumble into an episode of Benny Hill?

[Joe Guy]

Please excuse me for being so crude.

Sometimes I cunt help myself.

[Lord Jim]

Sometimes I cunt help myself.

You're going to cheap joke hell for that; you know that don't you.......

[The Hen]

Well I thought it was fanny.

[loCAtek]

These are Asians, right? I recall reading about the mizuage (deflowering for money) of geishas in the book Geisha (filmed as American Geisha) by Liza Dalby. In that culture, you wanted a girl's first sexual experience to be 'educational' as well as pleasurable, and older men would bid for the privilege.
It was like being paid to be a good teacher, to a student. From there, the gentleman ( and he was expected to be gentle) would always be known as the honorable first patron of the Geisha.

Now, I know this isn't like that, but I can see where they got the cunt-cept.

[Rick]

Hymenorrhaphy.

[dales]

I gottta look that one up.

[dgs49]

Who cares what sort of man would pay $12,000 for a young woman's virginity (assuming she has legal capacity)?

If he is willing she she is willing, it's nobody else's business.

The loss of her virginity will cost her nothing but the possibility of consorting with or marrying someone who is a moron and worries about such things.

I have no doubt that the thing will still work properly after the transaction is complete. Maybe better.

[BoSoxGal]

I just want to say that based on my own less than stellar first sexual intercourse (no, I'm not referring to how 'good' it was or wasn't) and similar stories I've heard from many close friends, many teenaged girls would probably just as happily earn some money on the occasion.

[Jarlaxle]

Did I stumble into an episode of Benny Hill?

You didn't get the memo? The posters here are auditioning for CSB Has No Talent!