There’s no better way to describe my moral reaction to Natalie Dylan’s scheme to auction off her virginity than extreme indifference. I’m utterly burning in the white-heat of neutrality. What supposedly makes Dylan’s venture into the enterprising world of ebay prostitution the stuff of controversy-plus, is her status as a women’s studies graduate and insistence that this is an act of feminism.
While I can’t really bring myself to take a position on this, Dylan’s entirely defensible claims mark further evidence of the terminological abyss that lurks just beneath the surface of “feminism”. Anyway, I have to admire her lack of sentimentality for this perplexingly coveted flap of organic matter.
I lost my virginity when I fell on a handrail in 5th grade. Not only was the whole affair woefully unromantic, it was a freebee. If I had known that the genius decision to perfect my balancing act that fateful afternoon would result in the potential net-less of some $3M, I would’ve guarded my god-given little investment somewhat more jealously and maybe sold it on ebay to a blithering moron willing to pay through the nose for it. In that Dylan’s V-for-sale reveals the infinite absurdity of valuing such a commodity, maybe she is taking a positive step in the name of feminism after all. Such as it is.
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January 14, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Miss Janey
Miss J has a strange reaction to this. (First she has heard of it, btw.) Although Miss J believes a woman should be free to do what she wants with her body and believes that prostitution should be legal, she still finds this disturbing. In Memoir of a Geisha, there is a scene in which the character’s virginity is sold- a man collects her hymen. The whole thing is murky now… but it was quite a fetish for the customer.
Miss J’s own virginity was given up reluctantly, and too early, for love, and the fall-out brought years of sorrow. Who’s to say that selling it isn’t the better way? No doubt that money would have come in handy many times during Miss J’s life.
January 14, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Sarah J
Oh, Madame Pop Feminist, you make me laugh.
and seriously. I threw away my virginity to a college boy who utterly didn’t matter, because I’d hung on to it for too damn long.
why didn’t I make some cash at least?