Turning True Womanhood On Its Head: Young Woman Peddling Her Virginity

A story in the news this week indicates the profoundly sad state of womanhood in our culture: a 22-year-old Nevada woman is selling her virginity on the Internet to the highest bidder in order to pay off her college loans and finance a master's degree.  According to FOXNews.com, the highest bid thus far is $3.7 million, after a shocking 10,000 bidders and the auction is legal in Nevada because the state does not have laws against prostitution. A brothel in that state is arranging and hosting the auction after eBay rejected it.

The young woman, who has adopted the pseudonym "Natalie Dylan" for obvious reasons, ironically cites a classic feminist paradigm as one of the factors behind her decision: "I think empowerment of women is picking yourself up and doing something on your own to better yourself," she told one news service. While those words belie a deeply misguided-and dangerous-fundamental worldview, what she is quoted as having said next is perhaps worse; her actions are driven mostly for materialistic gain: "When I was younger, I wanted 100 percent romance, possibly even wait for marriage. But as I grew up, reality kinda hit. And I think it's a capitalistic society, and I want to capitalize on this." What kind of man does she want to win the auction? "I'm looking for intelligence and an overall nice person," she said.

There are far too many ironies to explore in short order, but here is one that is writ large all over this story: "Natalie Dylan" cites "the empowerment of a woman" as at least one component of her decision, but this action leads to this woman being pressed down, objectified and used by a man to satisfy his basest peccadilloes. This is the abuse of a woman of the vilest sort. I have never understood why feminism views sexual freedom as "empowering" for women. It does nothing of the sort; rather, it destroys them, and it is seldom the man who, no pun intended, pays the steep price of the fallout that comes with this alleged freedom.

Natalie says "a nice and intelligent man" will be the ultimate winner of the auction. A man who desires such a prize is neither "intelligent" nor "nice;" he is an immoral parasite. Where is Natalie Dylan's father? His charge is to protect his family from such evil actions and he seems to be failing miserably in that essential task that comes with genuine manhood. Similarly, where is her mother? Is there no woman who cares and loves Natalie enough to protect her from such harmful decisions?

This story is sad and troubling for this action represents a deep distortion and perversion of God's good plan for authentic womanhood.  If Natalie Dylan goes through with this method of paying back the loans, the cost of her education may be higher than she could have ever dreamed. The Apostle Paul surely made no exaggeration when he said, "The love of money is a root of all kinds of evils" (1 Timothy 6:10).

We pray that God will intervene in the life of this young woman and send along an intrepid woman minister who will point her to the pathway of true wealth and true empowerment found only in the gospel of Jesus Christ (Romans 1:16).