An 18-year-old Italian woman known only as “Nicole” is the latest, it would seem, to offer up her hymen for high stakes, as first reported by the British tabloid The Sun. The young woman, shown in a video from the website “Elite Models VIP,” claims that she came up with the idea after dating an older man who was quite desperate to deflower her, which she says made her realize at age 16 how valuable a first fornication was.
She had hoped to give herself for love, the story goes, but apparently got tired of the wait to find Mr. Right. Now 18, if “Elite Models VIP” is to be believed, she’s putting her virginity on the block expecting it to sell for six or even seven figures. (Note that “Elite Models VIP” has no ties to Elite Model Management, which represents some of the best-known females and males in the fashion business.)
“I wanted a good education so I started looking on the web for ways to finance my studies and I came across a series of auction adverts and found there were girls who had sold themselves for £3.1 million [$3.79 million],” says “Nicole.” “So I decided I would do the same when I turned 18.
“I hope to get as much as possible to fund my studies, to help my sister and my family, and buy my parents a house,” she says in a charming Italian accent.
Nothing can be verified independently about the video of “Nicole”—not her story, not her identity, her age, or, much less, her virginity. Repeated calls to Elite Models VIP, which has a country code in Spain, only led to an answering service.
But whether this video is real or fake, the sale of virginity both by choice and by force is shockingly common in the global marketplace for prostitution.