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Woman Auctions Off Her Virginity

This is off the usual Financial Rounds fare, but sometimes I can't resist. First here's the article: They say you should value having sex for the first time. That’s why I’m auctioning my virginity online—and the bidding is up to $3.8 million. When I put my virginity up for auction in September, it was in part a sociological experiment—I wanted to study the public's response. Now it seems that the tables have turned, and the public is studying me. You can read the whole thing here . Since i just had my third cup of coffee, a few random neurons started firing, and a few random thoughts popped out (my good friends would argue that "random" describe most of my thoughts). I realize that some of them are a bit finance-geekish, but if you don't like them, you're welcome to start your own blog: Wasn't there a punchline going something like ",,, now we're just haggling over terms", and a movie about this? I don't think I'll show this...