The most popular virgin-selling site for those who choose to come of age for a profit is called Cinderella Escorts, based in Germany, which is apparently run by a 26-year-old man named Jan Zakobielski who for a time lived in his mother’s basement in Dortmund, Germany. Forbes magazine interviewed him by email last April after he reportedly sold an 18-year-old Romanian woman’s virginity to a Hong Kong businessman for $2.4 million.
The site made headlines again in November when it allegedly brokered a $3 million deal for the flower of a 19-year-old American virgin known only as “Giselle.” The price supposedly was paid by a businessman from Abu Dhabi who was pleased with his purchase.
“Giselle” said she had no regrets. “It was a dream come true,” she said in a statement after the deal was done. “Every woman has to decide on her own if it is worth [it] to give her virginity for free to a boyfriend who maybe later on will break up with her, rather than selling it. But I made my decision and now I can study wherever I want, buy a new house and travel around the world. It gives me a lot of opportunities.”
Cinderella Escorts founder Zakobielski told Forbes that his agency takes a 20 percent cut. It arranges the hotel and sends a guard to stay nearby in case the virgin “changes her mind.”
Zakobielski also said in that email exchange that he is not a pimp and is actually helping women. “I am a businessman and everyone can make his own opinion if it’s better to sell it with an official and legal agency which is famous… or to let girls search alone for a buyer.”
He says women going it alone could end up in criminal organizations that will sell them on the black market. “I think it would be naive to think that if we don’t give her a platform she will not search for another way to sell it. We just give people a platform who already have this idea in their mind.”
Barbie Latza Nadeau, the Rome correspondent for The Daily Beast, is the author of the forthcoming Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast.
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