If you were going to build a house, you wouldn’t hire a kid from a high school shop class to build it. And if you were going to pay a woman for sex, you wouldn’t hire a virgin.
Especially when she’s asking what it costs to build a house for her virginity.
Taking the Internet by storm is 22-year old “Natalie Dylan,” the pseudonym of a woman who literally believes that one night with her is worth at least a quarter million dollars. And not surprisingly, there are men who have large sums of money burning holes in their pockets who are desperate enough to pay for the so-called privilege of being her first.
Ms. Dylan describes her virginity as a “capitalist” asset and claims that while she is prepared to auction that asset, it may not be to the highest bidder. Despite her apparent desire to be a prostitute, she is looking for a devirginizer with whom she has “chemistry.”
The story is that Ms. Dylan is from San Diego and a graduate of Sacramento State’s women’s studies program. She has ambitions of attending graduate school, hoping to earn a degree in family and marriage counseling. Due to some fraudulent student loans obtained in her name by her stepfather, she believes that auctioning her virginity through a brothel in Nevada, the same brothel her sister works at, will not solve all her problems but will help her on her way.
A quick scan of the Internet reveals the same general facts about Ms. Dylan, something that is quite uncharacteristic of the online world. All of the stories about her are similar and the same two photos are used repeatedly. Her age has been said to be 21 and 22. Her degree goals have been said to be a master’s or a doctorate. She has been said to be from San Diego and Sacramento. We think we know where she’s from and where she went to college, yet nobody has come forward for their 15 minutes of fame to reveal her true identity to the media.
Something just doesn’t seem right. A women’s studies major prostituting herself, an evil stepfather who stole from her and a sister who works at the very same brothel she wants to utilize sounds more like a David Letterman monologue than the actions of a chaste woman with dreams of furthering her education.
The official web site for the brothel she is offering herself through does not have any bidding mechanisms in place. There is simply a brief statement about her, the same two pictures everyone has seen, an email address and the promise of a chat room featuring Ms. Dylan in the future.
Even radio personality Howard Stern, who recently featured Ms. Dylan on his program, has distanced himself from the topic. There are no prominent mentions of the subject on his official web site and it has been reported that he was not as involved in the matter as has been mentioned in the news.
It takes too much energy to make moral decisions for other people. Right or wrong, it’s legal to do what she wants to do whether or not there is a Natalie Dylan. So everybody’s talking about prostitution, which seems to be what the owners of the brothels in Nevada want, especially since the courts have recently ruled that they may start to advertise their businesses in Reno and Las Vegas.
What will happen? Nobody knows and way too many people care.
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2 comments:
Good points. I didn't even think of going this route with it. You're right, it could all be a hoax.
Excellent column, well written and easy to read.
Good points raised in a logical fashion.
The writer also did some checking and discovered something that I didn't know - that Howard Stern, whose name was prominent in much of the early publicity about this - seems to have been quietly moving away from the whole debacle.
Good use of phrasing:
"The story is that Ms. Dylan is from San Diego and a graduate of Sacramento State’s women’s studies program."
The story is, indeed...
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