Lesson Learned

In class this week, the topic I found most interesting in our lesson is the selling of the body on EBAY. Ebay is a site on the internet that you can sell things on, buy things, bid on things, etc. See how I'm stating "things" as what you can buy, however I guess it's a thing to sell your body/sex as well. Now I personally think this is horrific and disgusting, however I guess someone didn't when they paid 780,000 dollars for a girl's virginity. I mean really are you that desperate that your paying that amount of money to have sex?? Anyways, this auction of "selling virgins" was created in Australia. The girl's name that being auctioned off was Catarina Migliorini, 20 years of age. That is literally my age so that's just disturbing. The winner was a japanese male, named Natsu, who's age goes unknown. Although Catarina was going to give a portion of her funds to the poor of her city, the question still remained as to what this girl was thinking by doing this. The way this happened was she was to board a plane with her buyer between Australia and the U.S. so it was legal, and she claimed "if you only do it once in your life than you are not a prostitute, just like if you take one amazing photograph it does not automatically make you a photographer"...whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. According to the huffingtonpost website, it said the deal was never complete, but she did try to auction off her virginity a second time. She did it through her own website and stated "well after being featured by so many media outlets in so many countries, I decided to actually auction off my virginity." This was back in 2013, but she told one brazilian website that she was hoping to raise 1.5 million. This story is just absolutely nuts to me and I just don't understand it.