By Jessica Caswell
Sacramento State finally made national headlines last week. Unfortunately this time it was for all the wrong reason. "Why?" you ask. It seems the university has a money hungry student on its hands who has put a price on her virginity.
Natalie Dylan, 22, announced that she would be selling her virginity to the highest bidder to continue her education at Sacramento State's graduate school program.
Dylan is planning to lose her virginity at the infamous Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Nevada. The brothel is currently taking bids online on its Web site, and has received bids up to $275,000 according to The State Hornet.
"It’s empowering women to be the best that they can be," Dennis Hof, the owner of the infamous Moonlight Bunny Ranch brothel said in an interview with CBS13 last week about Dylan having sex for the first time at his establishment.
So if Dylan is empowering women to be the best they can be, then she should be right up there with Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton. Empowering women isn’t exactly where this moral dilemma seems to be going. Women are probably not going to stand up on the rooftops and shout, "I want to sell sex for money! Come and get me baby!"
Instead, women should be shouting, "What the hell?" and "Why is this OK?" If women can sell their own bodies legally online, then what’s stopping the prostitutes on the street? If someone’s selling sex for money, then they’re a hooker. It doesn’t matter whether someone is soliciting in the ghetto on the corner, or having sex for money in a penthouse suite in Beverly Hills- they're still a hooker.
So Dylan may be a hooker but she says she’s looking for more than just money.
"I think I’m very intuitive and I can sense if a person is being genuine or not. I’m definitely going to be looking for that," Dylan told CBS13 about the qualities she’s going to be looking for in the man she has sex with for the first time.
Using the word "genuine" in a situation where a man is going to be paying for your services doesn’t seem to go hand in hand. Someone could never be genuine when paying for sexual favors. What exactly would she want them to be genuine about if she's just looking for the highest bidder? If someone seems genuine and is only bidding $10,000 opposed to a $275,000 bidder who is not genuine, do you think she'd take the lower bid? Probably not.
Not to mention, Dylan supposedly received her degree in women’s studies and is hoping to someday become a marriage and family counselor. Maybe that’s why she’s not using her real name. If Dylan thinks she is making a good career move, then why use a pseudonym? It's because this would most likely hurt her credibility in the future. She must know this, or there would be no reason for the use of pseudonym. But, Dylan is citing "safety issues" as her reason for the fake name.
That old cliché, ‘if you got it, then flaunt it,’ may be ringing in some of your heads right about now. But this isn’t "Pretty Woman" where in the movie; a prostitute played by Julia Roberts is swept off her feet by the rich businessman played by Richard Gere. This is real life and lines need to be drawn.
Regardless of all the glorification and humorous quality this story has, there are many people out there who feel that this is wrong.
"She's just giving it to some random person. And I just think she should be giving it to someone special she loves," said one student on campus to a CBS13 reporter.
Nevada laws seem to be behind other states in prostitution laws. The New York Times ran a story about an online prostitution ring where four people were arrested in New York for online solicitation. Two of the women involved were charged with conspiracy to violate federal prostitution laws. Each faces up to five years in prison if convicted. The two other people involved were accused of prostitution and money laundering and face up to 25 years in prison. Should Dylan face the same?
Some companies out there seem to have a moral compass though. Dylan originally tried to auction off her virginity on EBay, but was turned down. However, she still managed to make our school look bad by putting us on the map for all the wrong reasons. What could be next for Sacramento State? Should it just start a huge black market community selling livers and babies? Then we’ll not only make it to national headlines- we’ll go international.
Sacramento State finally made national headlines last week. Unfortunately this time it was for all the wrong reason. "Why?" you ask. It seems the university has a money hungry student on its hands who has put a price on her virginity.
Natalie Dylan, 22, announced that she would be selling her virginity to the highest bidder to continue her education at Sacramento State's graduate school program.
Dylan is planning to lose her virginity at the infamous Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Nevada. The brothel is currently taking bids online on its Web site, and has received bids up to $275,000 according to The State Hornet.
"It’s empowering women to be the best that they can be," Dennis Hof, the owner of the infamous Moonlight Bunny Ranch brothel said in an interview with CBS13 last week about Dylan having sex for the first time at his establishment.
So if Dylan is empowering women to be the best they can be, then she should be right up there with Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton. Empowering women isn’t exactly where this moral dilemma seems to be going. Women are probably not going to stand up on the rooftops and shout, "I want to sell sex for money! Come and get me baby!"
Instead, women should be shouting, "What the hell?" and "Why is this OK?" If women can sell their own bodies legally online, then what’s stopping the prostitutes on the street? If someone’s selling sex for money, then they’re a hooker. It doesn’t matter whether someone is soliciting in the ghetto on the corner, or having sex for money in a penthouse suite in Beverly Hills- they're still a hooker.
So Dylan may be a hooker but she says she’s looking for more than just money.
"I think I’m very intuitive and I can sense if a person is being genuine or not. I’m definitely going to be looking for that," Dylan told CBS13 about the qualities she’s going to be looking for in the man she has sex with for the first time.
Using the word "genuine" in a situation where a man is going to be paying for your services doesn’t seem to go hand in hand. Someone could never be genuine when paying for sexual favors. What exactly would she want them to be genuine about if she's just looking for the highest bidder? If someone seems genuine and is only bidding $10,000 opposed to a $275,000 bidder who is not genuine, do you think she'd take the lower bid? Probably not.
Not to mention, Dylan supposedly received her degree in women’s studies and is hoping to someday become a marriage and family counselor. Maybe that’s why she’s not using her real name. If Dylan thinks she is making a good career move, then why use a pseudonym? It's because this would most likely hurt her credibility in the future. She must know this, or there would be no reason for the use of pseudonym. But, Dylan is citing "safety issues" as her reason for the fake name.
That old cliché, ‘if you got it, then flaunt it,’ may be ringing in some of your heads right about now. But this isn’t "Pretty Woman" where in the movie; a prostitute played by Julia Roberts is swept off her feet by the rich businessman played by Richard Gere. This is real life and lines need to be drawn.
Regardless of all the glorification and humorous quality this story has, there are many people out there who feel that this is wrong.
"She's just giving it to some random person. And I just think she should be giving it to someone special she loves," said one student on campus to a CBS13 reporter.
Nevada laws seem to be behind other states in prostitution laws. The New York Times ran a story about an online prostitution ring where four people were arrested in New York for online solicitation. Two of the women involved were charged with conspiracy to violate federal prostitution laws. Each faces up to five years in prison if convicted. The two other people involved were accused of prostitution and money laundering and face up to 25 years in prison. Should Dylan face the same?
Some companies out there seem to have a moral compass though. Dylan originally tried to auction off her virginity on EBay, but was turned down. However, she still managed to make our school look bad by putting us on the map for all the wrong reasons. What could be next for Sacramento State? Should it just start a huge black market community selling livers and babies? Then we’ll not only make it to national headlines- we’ll go international.
1 comment:
The writer shows plenty of enthusiasm for the topic and has two good sentences in the lead.
She trips over the third one by saying "who thinks she can put a price on her virginity."
I think she actually has done that.
The column describes the situation well for any reader, hitting a second speedbump with this paragraph:
"According to the law, people are not allowed to sell sex for money in any state. But Nevada lawmakers must see it differently because prostitution is legal there and there are plenty of brothels to prove it."
Actually, prostitution is legal in Nevada, under state law. The first sentence is, well, just wrong.
Ouch.
A clever ending that could have been foreshadowed in the lead, but clever nonetheless.
Anyone remember the great safari debacle of last fall that our campus president got us into?
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