A month-long auction for 20-year-old
Catarina Migliorini's virginity ended yesterday, when a Japanese man called
Natsu bid $780,000 (N121,102,800) for the "date". Natsu beat out five
other bidders after a feverish final day where the price of Migliorini's virtue
jumped from $190,000 (N29,499,400) on Oct. 23 to the final price tag.
The auction, turned generally
repulsive publicity stunt, is part of an Australian documentary called Virgins
Wanted, which will fly Catarina to the encounter and will interview her before
and after the deed.
Migliorini, a physical education
student, has claimed to media that she planned to donate as much as 90%
($722,000, N112,097, 720) of the auction price to charities that will build
homes in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.
"The auction is just business, I'm a romantic girl at heart
and believe in love. But this will make a big difference to my area," she
is quoted as having said.
However, the auction organizer Justin
Sisely, who devised the plan for a proposed documentary, was skeptical: "I
was surprised she said that because in all my dealings with her, she made it
clear that it was a business decision for her," he says.
"Now, given how big this story
is in Brazil, she's trapped. If she doesn't give any money to charity, she's
going to look bad."
And despite taking money in exchange
for sex, Catarina denies being a prostitute.
"If you only do it once in your
life then you are not a prostitute, just like if you take one amazing photograph
it does not automatically make you a photographer," she reckons.
The same auction also offered a man's
virginity for sale, but the wasn't so good for her male counterpart, Alex
Stepanov, whose virginity only racked up $3,000 (N465, 780) from a woman in Brazil
named "Nene B."
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