New Zealand Student Auctions Virginity Online to Pay for College

**Dudester** · 02-03-2010

A student in New Zealand has auctioned her virginity to a stranger for almost $31,900 to help fund her university tuition fees.

The 19-year-old offered her virginity to the highest bidder in an online auction on the www.ineed.co.nz Web site after she found herself desperate for money.

The student, who called herself "Unigirl," said that she was delighted with the outcome and thanked auction participants who had bid more than she expected.

"Thank you to the more than 30,000 people who viewed my ad and to the more than 1,200 offers made," she said on the auction site yesterday. "I have accepted an offer in excess of $NZ45,000, which is way beyond what I dreamt."

The woman said that she had never been in a sexual relationship. She described herself as attractive, fit and healthy but desperate for money to pay university fees. She offered her virginity to the highest bidder “as long as all personal safety aspects are observed” and with full awareness of "possible consequences."

The proprietor of the Web site, Ross MacKenzie, said that the auction had created overwhelming interest from all around the world. He told the Waikato Times newspaper that if an advertisement was legal and not offensive, "it was OK."

He added: "Ineed does not place moral judgments on our members, believing in the fundamental rights of the individual."

MacKenzie denied the transaction was a stunt to promote his Web site. Trade Me, a rival New Zealand-based website, said that it would never allow such an auction. "We don't want Trade Me to be seen as the place where people auction off their virginity," Paul Ford, its spokesman, said.

"As a company we try to do things that are young at heart and do edgy things, but we do not think this one would pass muster," Mr Ford added. "We would not want to be part of it and I think our community would be pretty overwhelmingly against it."

A spokesman for the New Zealand police, Jon Neilson, said that no law appeared to have been breached.

"[But] we would suggest it's not a safe practice," Neilson added. "There are definitely issues of personal safety in using chatrooms, social dating networks and other internet sites that can be used to arrange meetings between strangers."

**IcyIcicle** · 02-03-2010

hope she got him tested first.

**Joshgreenyo** · 02-11-2010

Madness! I bet she's not even a virgin!

**coolguy010** · 02-12-2010

...or... turn up preggers

Originally Posted by IcyIcicle

hope she got him tested first.

**Saffer** · 02-12-2010

I seem to recall this kind of thing happening somewhere in Europe a few years back. Cant' remember the exact circumstances, but it was also a teen auctioning off her virginity.

**Brigit Astar** · 02-12-2010

I bet she's not even going to college

**Joshgreenyo** · 02-12-2010

Originally Posted by Saffer

I seem to recall this kind of thing happening somewhere in Europe a few years back. Cant' remember the exact circumstances, but it was also a teen auctioning off her virginity.

I'm pretty sure it was an English girl and she sold hers on Ebay.

**Saffer** · 02-14-2010

Originally Posted by Joshgreenyo

I'm pretty sure it was an English girl and she sold hers on Ebay.

Yea...that sounds about right. And I think an older Italian guy "bought" the privelege? I'm sure this sort of thing happens more often than it hits the news.

**IcyIcicle** · 02-15-2010

People sell wives and children in some countries...

Really not all that radical if you take that into account.

**singleot** · 03-26-2010

If some poor guy tried that stunt, he'd not only be lucky to get more than a few bids, he'd be lucky if the winner could inspire an erection lol

**James3T** · 03-26-2010

The other explanation here in NZ is that it was a publicity stunt for the web site that featured the auction since it gained massive exposure here in NZ plus the rest of the world.

And prostitution is legal in NZ, no nothing illegal either.

bluemarine · 05-30-2010

$31,900 to sleep with a girl you've never seen who has no Idea what she's doing? I don't see the appeal.

**James3T** · 06-01-2010

It was almost certainly a publicity stunt.

Here in NZ instead of EBay being the largest online auction web site there is a site called trademe, which was created here in NZ and the founders sold it off a few years ago for several hundred million dollars. Since then there have been a lot of people trying to replicate their success with some using similar stunts.