Romanian Teen To Pay Half Of Her Virginity-Auctioned Earnings To Gov

The moral of the story: charge more.

Wait… was that the moral of the story?

Just kidding. Pretty hokey…

This is sick.

8800 pounds for a beautiful 18 year old virgin? She needed a better agent, she should have gotten 10 times that easily, considering the publicity she garnered. There are people who blow 60K every night they go clubbing in Vegas or New York just trying to impress their cocktail waitress. Arms dealers, bankers, you know, all the guys who own the government and its bottomless coffers. I mean, christ, Elliot Spitzer was paying up to 5500 an hour for hookers. This chick could have made a nice fortune.

On the issue of taxes: Does anyone have the right to coerce others with the threat of imprisonment (as governments do almost universally) to get money out of them? If you say yes you are brainwashed and sadistic. The last time I brought this up, a German couple went into seizures because I dared to mention the irrefutable fact that their beloved “system” is based on the fundamental principal of locking people in cages should they not enslave themselves to a System they were forced into by birth. A government is nothing but an organized crime syndicate that controls people so well most of them forget that they are constantly paying “protection” fees simply for being alive and trying to stay alive. A mafia can dispense with much of the overt violence once they have prisons built, and a cowed populace to fund them.

Women can get anything they want from men when sex is part of the equation (and it always is). We’re very stupid like that.

She could have, as many do, had a meaningless drunken one-night stand. Why not get paid for something that really is an inflated luxury? The whole idea of the sacred virginity of a woman was created by men and our big egos. If we hold it to be so special, why not make us pay for it. Besides, very few first times are all that great, why not make some money and make it special.

I agree with some of the commentary that the idea of virginity=fresh, clean, untouched, and therefore more sacred is both cultural and patriarchal ideal.

Problem is, there are women throughout the world who are forced to have their vagina sewed shut and their clitoris removed for the sake of being virgins until their marriage (and to eliminate the possibility of ever enjoying sex in their lifetimes). There are also women in other countries, who although they won’t have to experience female genital mutilation, if they are raped, or in some other way “slip up,” they are forced into destitution or to be forever reliant on their families because no man will marry a tarnished/dishonored woman. So for many women, particularly in developing countries, though still surprising also within many developed nations, the importance of virginity is more than simply an outdated belief.

I personally believe prostitution should be legal. I think there is a lot of empowerment for women around legality and the ability to set rules and repercussions for men who don’t follow those rules. But to me, this story reeks of the old woman-using-her-body-to-get-ahead-because-that’s-the-only-way-she-knows-how, which signals a very deep unconscious collective belief around the worth of women. Yes, it was her choice, and the probably-married businessman’s choice, but there is an undercurrent of keeping everyone is these gender roles that just perpetuates oppression and control, and the belief of lack of choice.

prostitution is prostitution.

if it’s done buy a veteran prostitute or a virgin it doesn’t change the fact that it is still prostitution and in Germany it is a taxable profession.

I agree with Marcus.

The government does not have the legitimate moral authority to tax her.

Was the government there to offer a breast to feed this woman when she was an infant? Did it ever give her a fair *choice* to decide whether she wanted to use the state’s services or not? If not, then she owes nothing to the state.

Taxation is a violent, brutal act by which government steals money that does not rightfully belong to it. If you resist paying taxes, you will be beaten, taken away from your family, and imprisoned, possibly in some government-run prison rape-room hellhole somewhere.

The ultimate question is: Who owns this woman’s body? Does she own her body, or does the government own her body? If she owns her own body, then she can use it however she likes, as long as she doesn’t harm anyone else, and she owes nothing to the state. But if the government owns her body, then she is nothing but a slave; of course, slave rebellions are morally justifiable, so this woman should resist the taxation by any means necessary.

Down with the state.

Oh and I dont think the government should charge her tax, all her cash is going toward her education. heck the government should even give her grants for taking her education so serious!

A country’s government should be a reflection of the people within it, through spending, ideals, etc. If they’re doing something wrong, it’s our fault for not DEMANDING they change what they’re doing. For example, if you want government funded college, like some country’s, then fight for it, make some noise and get people aware that you want change because your definitely not the only one. If you don’t like the system you’re in or you don’t like something your country’s doing, find the problem, get involved with people/community’s, organize and make steps towards change. Or sit on your ass, you definitely have that right, but if you do you’re a part of the problem because people ARE trying to take your freedoms from you and that’s a lot easier when people don’t give a shit. Not to mention you’d be giving them more power by giving them your tax dollars and not caring or knowing if it’s going to fund a war, torture, your library/school or any other public service that was probably fought for and is now starting to be taken away from some country’s without any one even noticing or caring. It’s our job to put pressure on our government, not the other way around.

As far as prostitution goes I think it should be legal (that doesn’t mean I like the idea of it, far from it), it’s just a business and it’s a lot safer when legal. I think college should be free to avoid people from doing things they don’t want to, like the student prostitutes who don’t really have a choice. But if you’re really offended by prostitution you should look into some other business’s that people regularly buy from or use and see what they’re doing to many people and our planet. You’d be quite shocked and hopefully very angry. And for taxing this girl, depends on the laws. Don’t like it? Do something about it ha ha.

Fantastic! Def charge more with a follow-up program for ongoing expenses. Much cleaner than a spouse and less expensive.

Its a sad story, that she values herself so little. But at the of the day, it was her decision so its her consequences. Just another reflection of the increasingly materialistic world we live in where everything is for sale, and nothing is of intrinsic value.

As for taxing her, thats the way it goes. Its all very well to shout about moral bla bla and governments being mobsters, which is partly true, but hey taxes build roads, schools, hospitals and provide pensions. Its not a perfect system of course, but hey its the only one we have for the moment. If she is cynical enough to see her virginity as a commercial opportunity, she should have been sharp enough to know it was gonna be taxed.

It’s never free.

I think that we are missing the point here.. she wouldn’t have needed the money if the government had been doing its job in the first place. Obviously they only are in business for themselves.. as seen by the tax grab.

|When are we going to grow up and gain control of our own governments so they do what is right?

I think she would have had the possibility to earn much more than that.

And I don’t think she is that smart as we think she might be. She just has to pay so much because she earned too much at the same time. Next time have a contract for ongoing payment over a longer period, for example 400€ a month. That would have been (centainly almost) free of charge.

I wonder if the Italian businessman was Silvio Berlusconi? Or does he not have to pay for his virgins?

what can you expect, romania has hit rock bottom after communism fell…im ashamed to say im romanian aswell but when people are desperate for money to live and continue living they wil do anything

sad…….

OH MY GOD! PEOPLE HAVE TO PAY TAXES?!

I don’t blame the government at all for wanting tax dollars. It really is an issue of paying tax on what you owe.

As soomeone said, people in poor countries are just desperate to get money. However, I think people are now desperate to get the money anywhere in the world.
Anything can sell nowdays.
Considering that her parents didn’t intervene (or she has no parents?) and the government instead of talking about the moral side, talked about taxes, the moral outcome of the story is that she shoud have charged more.

I agree with Marcus, she could have gotten a lot more money!
The fact that she publicized the sale was her first mistake. Of course the government is going to capitalize on her illegal solicitation of “goods”.
The whole thing says a lot about the state of morals and ethics in modern culture though. They seem to be a thing of the past. It is interesting though, that she values education over her own self-respect. But, then again, it is her body and I agree that she can do what she wants with it!