Obsidian ([info]obsidian179) wrote,
@ 2008-09-12 02:32:00
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Current mood: sleepy

This isn't an update...
Hopefully, I'll be updating one of my stories soon. As people who've been here a while know, though, I do occasionally post non-fic-related entries here. This is one of them.

And no, it isn't a 9/11 post. I've said all I really feel like saying about that elsewhere.

I've always heard you could buy anything off of the internet, but I didn't think it was literally true. Evidently I was wrong. Back in 2004, an 18-year-old British girl apparently tried to sell her virginity on eBay, before moving the auction to her own website when eBay pulled the plug. The price, as best I can tell, was £8,400.

She is being investigated for soliciting by Avon and Somerset police.

I heard about this on the radio today - which makes me wonder if there was some kind of recent development I just didn't see - and I just had to find out more.

And now, if I may address a question to any and all females reading this... What the fuck?




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to answer your question...
[info]paradisacorbasi
2008-09-12 12:07 pm UTC (link)
No pun intended, surely...

She must not think she has any other marketable skills, so is selling the one thing she is sure she can offer that someone would definitely want?

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Re: to answer your question...
[info]obsidian179
2008-09-12 01:31 pm UTC (link)
No, I get that - though from what I read, it was more of an attempt to avoid crushing student loan bills then anything. It just... surprised me, is all. I've heard of people selling some pretty odd things online, but this...

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Re: to answer your question...
[info]paradisacorbasi
2008-09-12 01:54 pm UTC (link)
It's not the first time I've seen this attempted.

Sad state of the world that people feel so desperate they have to do things like this.

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