From paying Mum’s medical bills to offering your innocence as a reality show prize, we
count ten women who made incredible money selling their virginity!
10 – Alina Percea, • Alina Percea was an eighteen-year-old
Romanian teen who successfully sold her virginity for $14,900 to pay for a computing degree.
She completed the sale via a web auction that ran for two weeks in 2009.
• The successful bidder was a forty-five-year-old Italian businessman who flew Alina to Venice
to wine, dine and show her the sights before sealing taking her v card from her at a nearby
five-star hotel. Alina was also required to undergo two separate medical examinations
to prove she was a virgin. Romantic! • Still, Alina suffered no buyer’s remorse,
and told an interviewer that she enjoyed the experience so much she’d be willing to do
it again for free. She didn’t ask if he was married or had a family because that kind
of information totally spoils the mood when you’re giving it up to a paying stranger
who’s twenty-seven years your senior. 9 – Shatuniha,
• In 2013, an eighteen-year-old Siberian teenager used Russian auction site 24.au to
auction off her, um, innocence to the highest bidder.
• Posting under the nickname Shatuniha, she wrote “I have no bad habits and I am
nice looking” and described herself as “new, not used”. She also described her virginity
as “the most precious thing I own”, but, hey, guess nothing’s as precious as money.
• Her efforts attracted the attention of a high-rolling mystery bidder, who parted
with 900,000 roubles – roughly $28,000 – to consummate the deal in a mystery hotel room.
Local police were notified of the arrangement, but did not intervene because she wasn’t
breaking any laws. 8 – Elizabeth Raine,
• Elizabeth Raine is a medical student who attracted plenty of attention with her 2014
website, which she built to facilitate the sale of her virginity.
• The remarkably professional auction website featured links to the PR company managing
the bids and contained an entire page devoted to Terms and Conditions, with legal clauses
like “Sexual Intercourse means insertion of a penis into a vagina”. She also promised
to donate thirty-five percent of the sale to a charity providing education to women
in developing countries. • The website’s gallery of polished photographs
attracted an absurd winning bid of $801,000 from an anonymous bidder. Raine claimed to
be motivated by financial gain, but admitted she was also drawn to the scandal, adventure
and eroticism, and hoped to challenge preconceptions about virginity.
• She later backed out of the arrangement to instead focus on her medical training,
prompting some critics to claim she never intended to follow through with the transaction
in the first place. 7 – Raffaella Fico,
• Italian Big Brother star Raffaella Fico is no stranger to controversy. She’s been
linked to the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s “bunga bunga” sex
parties, and has recently made headlines for having an extra-marital baby with soccer superstar
Mario Balotelli. • More interesting, though, is that when
she was twenty she reportedly put her virginity up for sale, telling an Italian magazine that
she’d gladly part with it for a million euros so that she could fund acting classes
and buy a house. • She swore she’d never had a boyfriend
– I almost believe her – and said she’d go through with the transaction even if the
winning bid came from some gross fat hairy guy. “If I don't like him, I'll just have
a glass of wine and forget about it.” Words to live by.
6 – Rebecca Bernardo, • In 2013, Brazilian teen Rebecca Bernardo
took to YouTube to announce she was auctioning her virginity to pay for her bedridden mother’s
medical bills. Her mother had suffered a stroke and Rebecca, who has no other family, allegedly
needed more money than she could get working normal eighteen-year-old gigs like flipping
burgers. • “There comes a time when you have to
make decisions to get what you want. You have to be strong,” she said in the video, like
she was going to war. Her campaign caused a media storm and Rebecca bizarrely turned
down one Brazilian TV network’s condition-free offer to pay for the medical bills.
• Reports vary, but some suggest Rebecca eventually sold her virginity for $35,000
in a private sale. • In case any of you are getting any wild
ideas, let me remind you that YouTube’s for Let’s Plays, cat videos and Danger Dolan
countdowns; not for selling your virginity! 5 – Graciela Yataco,
• Peruvian model Graciela Yataco is credited with starting the whole auctioning one’s
virginity trend in 2005. • At eighteen, she was responsible for her
mother’s medical bills and paying for her younger brother’s tuition. Since her family
was poverty-stricken, she posted an ad in a local newspaper, requesting 20,000 soles
for the right to deflower her. Because Peru is strongly Catholic, there was a huge outcry
from public figures. • A Canadian man offered 1.5 million dollars,
but Graciela declined before eventually retracting her offer. She was accused of conducting a
publicity stunt, but insists her offer was serious and that she’d only retracted it
because that annoying bird ‘self-respect’ kept chirping in her ear.
4 – Unigirl, • A New Zealand student known only as ‘Unigirl’
caught the world’s attention in 2010 when she sold her virginity for a whopping $45,000
NZ. • The sale was done via an auction website
called ‘iNeed’ and was apparently to pay for her university education. Wait ’til
New Zealand discovers scholarships. It’ll be revolutionary.
• Over 1,200 creepy perverts placed bids. At the close of the auction, the student thanked
everyone who took an interest and said the amount she received was ‘beyond what I could’ve
dreamed’.
3 – Rosie Reid, • In 2004, eighteen-year-old Rosie Reid
from London sold her virginity to a divorced forty-four-year-old engineer for $13,300.
Rosie reportedly wanted money to attend Bristol University, but I’m sure she probably bought
herself some new shoes as well. Her ad attracted over two thousand bids.
• This was Rosie’s first sexual experience with a man; however, she’d had prior experiences
with her lesbian partner, Jess Cameron. • Reportedly, Jess waited outside the door
while Rosie consummated her sale. The next morning, the lesbian lovers ‘cried and cried’.
There you go, guys. Think long and hard for selling something like this because you can’t
get a refund!
2 – Catarina Migliorini, • In October 2012, twenty-year-old Brazilian
physical education student Catarina Migliorini attempted to sell her virginity as a part
of an Australian documentary called Virgins Wanted.
• The successful buyer was a Japanese man, who offered an exhorbitant $780,000 for a
date followed by a pleasurable evening of hide the sausage. However, the filmmaker ran
into legal issues with both Australian and Brazilian authorities and it was decided the
actual deflowering would take place in a plane over international waters.
• Unfortunately, the documentary fell through, with Catarina claiming the filmmaker had tried
to bait, switch and defraud her. Not to worry: Catarina’s star had risen in the meantime
and she appeared in a 2013 issue of Brazillian Playboy.
• She organised a second auction herself, but it also fell through. She’s currently
in talks to be in a Brazillian reality show where twenty men will compete for a million
dollars and the honour of taking her virginity. Seriously.
• When questioned, Catarina said she is not a prostitute and that she is only doing
all this to, um, raise money to build homes for poverty-stricken families in her hometown.
She also offered this pearl of wisdom: ‘If you only do it once in your life then you
are not a prostitute, just like how taking one amazing photograph it does not automatically
make you a photographer.’ 1 – Natalie Dylan,
• Where were you in September 2008? Were you announcing the auction of your virginity
on The Howard Stern Show? Twenty-two-year-old Natalie Dylan was!
• Apparently inspired by the aforementioned Graciela Yataco, Natalie held her virginity
auction on the Moonlite BunnyRanch website and was planning to consummate it at the ranch.
• Natalie was a recent women’s studies graduate from Sacramento State and claimed
she planned to use the money to finance graduate school. She said she was being pro-choice
with her body and that she felt ‘empowered’. • Several bids exceeded a million dollars,
and the highest one came in at a paltry $3.8 million. These rich guys are so smart with
money. It’s like, why buy an island when you can buy a creepy one-time fifteen minute-experience
with someone who’s sexually inexperienced. • In the end, it didn’t work out and the
transaction was not consummated. Despite holding on to her coveted virginity, Natalie still
made $250,000 from an Australian highroller who’d placed a deposit before backing out
to reconcile with his ex-wife. Not sure why he didn’t ask for his
money back... Making enormous donations to fame-obsessed prostitutes isn’t exactly
a sound business decision. Tsk. Rich people...