Selling "Virginity"

First, before I get started, I would like to recommend this book along with my post. I have yet to read it because I am going to buy it when I get back home to America.

This is very sad and lately, their have been a lot of stories like it. LINK

This will be very quick. This is Bad. Very bad. Not her. She's not bad. Because just like what I said in my post about Jade Goody, it goes for this woman and the alike as well. This should not be an option. A woman should not have to sell her body, so she can go to school, so she can get her family out of poverty. Women's bodies are forever for sale and available. Find me 10 articles about men selling their 'virginity' for 10,000 and up. You wont. Don't go google it, because you wont. Men who like to have sex with virgins have a few simple reasons. 1. They will always be remembered. 2. They think they will get a virgin submissive girl 3. Because 'taking a women's virginity' is the ultimate goal! Its the wowzer, the one you tell stories about. Its almost mythical. 4. They will get to break the hymen which means the vaginal will most lightly be 'tight."

Virginity...catch this...is a SOCIAL CONSTRUCT. A virgin is not some mythical woman who is pure and gentle and a girl. That's another creepy ass component. Some people think that its a woman's first sexual experience that makes them a woman and that's why some men who like to have sex with virgins like the whole turning girls into women. Now, get me straight. If the term virgin was only a word, possibly a medical term that was attributed to someone who hadn't had sex their first time yet (with a man or a woman) then I would say, of course its not a social construct. But the term 'virgin' comes with a whole lot else. Its about purity. Its about the idea that sex takes away from purity and we all know who have to be pure...women. Women are supposed to be pure. Virginity is associated with the virgin Mary and the birth of Christ and blah blah.

And this is crazy. I don't even want to comment on it, its so crazy.

What kills me is that people, a lot, don't know that women tend to break their hymen way before they have penetration. Especially if they use tampons during their menstruation (which is why religious people were against tampons...they turn women into whores!). Women can break their hymens riding bikes!

Bottom line is that this woman has the right to sell her social construct for 10000 euros to help her family. Its sad that that was her only option. And hear me, because I seem to get in a lot of arguments with people about this, "Ohhh well she could have worked here or there or saved up or blah blah." But name one more thing that a woman can do other than sell her body that would get her this kind of money. One, poverty shouldnt be so bad that she has to go to extremes, Two, womens bodies shouldnt be so readible (made that word) to sell. Its simple. Same as stripping and regular prostitution (This is virginity prostitution, as I call it). On top of that, what if this man is a murderer!

Point is. Patriarchy. Which goes hand and hand with religion. Purity. Virginity. Poverty. Women. Yea.