fallen verses

I don’t often read news sites anymore. The tedium of natural disaster, international incident, atrocity, fluff… why even bother? Most news stories are mad-libs with the names and places changing while the details remain the same. Today, however, I took a look.

Student auctions virginity, sparks online debate

from Reuters.

Predictably, they go into how some people are calling this prostitution and fearing for the moral decay and downfall of civilization and how terrible all of this is.

Well, it is prostitution. That is a matter of definition.

And I won’t go into the moral decay issue because anything I would say on that subject would be hugely inflammatory!.

I don’t consider sex a bad thing, and if one adult wants to exchange money for it, I don’t see any problem with that either. What struck me about this article is not the events, that is kinda whatever, but this:

The woman, who has earned a bachelor degree in women’s studies and now wants to start a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy, is hoping the bidding will hit $1 million.

ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

!!!!!

Okay, there is historical precedent for the sale of virginity and a certain premium applied to that (it is a scarce resource), but, come on, is it that worth it? One million dollars….