Critics slam U.S. med student who is selling 'virginity' online

[The Straight Story]

A 27-year-old American medical student, who happened to have grown up in Saudi Arabia, has incited strong reactions after she began auctioning off her alleged virginity online.

The woman, who goes by the name of “Elizabeth Raine,” told Al Arabiya News on Wednesday that despite the criticism, she thinks her actions are not “immoral.”

“It is my virginity; it is my morality that matters. It’s not as though I’m hurting anyone.”

“I also think its really important for people to accept and respect diversity of morality. Intolerance for differences has never led to anything good,” she added.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2014/04/30/Critics-slam-U-S-med-student-who-is-selling-virginity-online-.html

[NightWatcher]

1. Keep your virginity. I want someone who knows what the Hell they're doing down there.

[leftyohiolib]

2. her body her choice

[alp227]

4. Right. But how can one make a choice if one is not well-informed?

Has this student ever taken a critical view of why American culture is so screwed up sexually: culture wants virginity but enjoys sexual perversions at once.

[leftyohiolib]

6. youre assuming something that doesnt matter it's her body and her choice -

[Xipe Totec]

9. Interesting argument in support of prostitution. nt

[AngryAmish]

13. do you have any proof of your claim?

IE what culture wants.

[alp227]

14. Check out this alternet article

America's Insane Attitude Towards Sexual Pleasure

The real story here is how we’re such a hypersexualized, yet pleasure-starved culture. America is a Christian consumer nation bent on policing sexual expression, while selling smut and sanctimony steeped in shame. Profitable sexual transgressions are the norm, yet apparently the only threat to childhood innocence. So conversation about healthy sexuality to combat today’s paradoxical messages must be squashed to “protect the kids.” Conservative culture warriors—aided and abetted by an infotainment media that feeds off of extremes—conflate the progressive push toward sexual freedom and justice with the toxic byproduct of anything-goes commercialism.

[AngryAmish]

15. If anything this article is the opposite of proof.

It is polemic, an op-ed.

Proof would probably be a poll or attitude survey, stating that virginity is prized by large swaths of the population and sexual perversion (your words) is equally prized.

What do you consider a sexual perversion? Oral sex? Homosexuality? Anything non-missionary?

[LittleBlue]

3. Assuming her picture isn't photoshopped

She'll get quite a bit. The Brazilian girl got what, $800k?

[bettyellen]

10. So you have been pricing women's virginity online? interesting.

[LittleBlue]

12. Yeah, that's exactly it

I can totally afford to throw away $1m on something like this

The Brazilian was a pretty big news story.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/catarina-migliorini-sells-virginity-780k_n_2010260.html

IIRC she tried to auction it off a second time

[Egnever]

5. " Intolerance for differences has never led to anything good"

Can't argue with that!

[Hekate]

7. That's some twisted thinking, but whatever. nt

[tammywammy]

8. Ehh, if that's what she wants to do....

[Niceguy1]

11. for a med student

She isnt very bright.