Does virginity have value?

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Shombit Sengupta : Jan 20 2013, 02:16 IST

Men’s barbaric ways are tormenting women in India. Story after story of brutal abuses against women is being reported. But on the globe’s other side, girls are posting their readiness to sell their virginity on a website that’s just auctioned off two virgins. Advances in medical technology have put so many human parts up for sale, like kidneys, eyes, heart, sperms, eggs, wombs for research, to save lives or help homosexual couples father a child. And yet, the auction of a hymen seems to supersede all sales! In my current gender equilibrium series, should I consider this feat as women’s liberty? Nobody forced the brave girl to sell her virginity. She proved that certain men fantasise women’s virginity and consciously extracted that worth from the marketplace.

Listening as I often do to international media, it intrigued me the other day when the famous French radio station Europe One aired a very bubbly French-accented Vihrgeens Onthed (Virgins Wanted) annals programme. Twenty-year-old Brazilian Catarina Migliorini’s virginity was put on auction on an Australian website together with boy virgin, Alexander Stepanov. The bid started with $1 in Brazil, then spread worldwide. On October 24, 2012, both were sold: Catarina fetched a whopping $780,000 with 15 bids. Her third highest bidder was an Indian, Rudra Chatterjee, the runner-up American Jack Miller, while Natsu, a Japanese, won his prize “flying in a private jet between Australia and the US in order to counteract international prostitution laws”. Meanwhile, Alexander got eight bids and was

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