An "Educated" Choice

The silly college student who says she's trying to sell her virginity has posted a rationale for her actions here. The most frightening thing about the article is that she plans on obtaining a master's degree in family therapy. Lord help the family who seeks her help.

Among the things she says are these:

...early European marriages began with a dowry, in which a father would sell his virginal daughter to the man whose family could offer the most agricultural wealth. Dads were basically their daughters’ pimps.

Several commenters to the original post and many people elsewhere have noted that the dowry was money paid by the bride's family to the groom, rather than the other way around. But hey, you can't learn everything in four years of college.

After noting that ads on places like Craigslist seem to point towards a trend of women profiting from their sex appeal, she closes with this gem:

One conclusion my experiment has already borne out is that society isn’t ready for public auctions like mine—yet.

No, Ms. Dylan, we're not ready to publicly auction people's bodies just yet. We had to spend more than 600,000 lives to stop ourselves from doing it the last time and endure many many years of bigotry and oppression in order to see the aftereffects even start to erode. Until you learn to see past the vast expanse of your two whole decades of life to appreciate some of what's gone before you, perhaps you should listen more and talk less.