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Student is selling her virginity on the internet for £10,000

By Holly Jarvis

A STUDENT is so hard up she has decided to make the ultimate sacrifice ...she is selling her virginity to the highest bidder on the internet.

So far more than 400 men, many of them sickos, have placed bids offering 18-year-old Rosie Reid up to £10,000 for sex.

The drastic action has left Rosie's parents sickened. Her doctor dad has told her she "is selling her soul". Her nurse mum is outraged.

And Rosie is even willing to sleep with a man despite it being abhorrent to her—she is a LESBIAN.

But she would rather prostitute herself than see her studies suffer.

She is currently forced to work long hours in poorly paid part-time jobs to pay her tuition fees.

Rosie said: "The way things are going, I'll leave university £15,000 in debt. That's why I'm taking drastic action."

She started her Bachelor of Science degree in social policy at the University of Bristol three months ago and is already £3,000 in debt.

Rosie estimates her three-year course at the university, where Prime Minister Tony Blair's son Euan is also a student, will cost her £7,500 a year.

"I needed to raise cash and I was thinking about what I could sell," said Rosie, who has never even seen a man naked.

"It seemed that my virginity was something really valuable yet at the same time something I could do without. With £10,000 in the bank I could work less. I could live comfortably until the end of my course and concentrate on my studies.

"People have sex all the time and they do it free of charge. And I don't know many people who actually stay with the first person they ever sleep with. Unless I do something like this I'm going to be in financial trouble."

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Rosie, who has two younger brothers, placed her ad on the popular eBay website earlier this month.

Her posting, which ran alongside ads for secondhand cars and unwanted furniture, read: "Eighteen-year-old university student looking to sell virginity. Never lost it due to lesbianism. Will bung in free massage if you are any good. Picture on request."

Rosie, from Dulwich, south-east London, currently qualifies for a government loan of £3,000 a year—less than HALF what she needs to cover fees and other outgoings. She is juggling her studies with part-time jobs to pay for her food, clothes, travel and the £300 a year she needs for textbooks.

Rosie said: "The government has made it difficult for people like me to follow their ambition to study.

"I wish we could concentrate on learning rather than constantly worrying about money or working to get by.

"I think Tony Blair and Charles Clarke are encouraging a class divide, which is wrong and goes against all of Labour's principles."

The bright student, who achieved two As and a B at A-level, works three shifts a week as a silver service waitress. She often does 12-hour shifts, which means sacrificing lectures to make a modest £4.50 an hour.

She said: "Doing these kind of hours affects my studies. When I come home I'm so tired it's hard to fit in university work.

"I'm not willing to sacrifice my future for the sake of a part-time job, so I am faced with two choices—years in debt or prostituting myself on the internet for my education."

Within days of placing the ad, Rosie was bombarded with e-mails from around the world. eBay had nearly 7,000 hits on her ad over three days, almost ten a second.

But after three days the website decided to remove her. Rosie is now setting up her own website where she will continue to advertise herself.

Earlier this month American interior designer Cathy Cobblerson, 24, offered her virginity for $100,000 (£65,000) on eBay to pay off credit card bills.

But some of the depraved responses Rosie has received highlight the danger she has put herself in to make money.

A response from one man said: "What size are your breasts?" And asked whether she was willing to engage in unusual sex.

Other e-mails were supportive. One said: "You are a ballsy young lass. There is no greater gift than that of education and I admire you loads for what you are doing."

Rosie said: "On the third day the response to the auction was just huge.

"Some of the e-mails were from people just having a laugh, but I got quite a few from people saying that they really admired me, and others from people who were really sympathetic.

"One guy wrote to me and said he would pay £10,000 for my virginity. I probably would have gone for it but I waited to see what would happen." She added: "I was holding out for more cash, but also seeing if people were serious.

"You could tell those who really meant it because they would ask me about pregnancy and protection."

Rosie is in a lesbian relationship with lover Jess Cameron, a 26-year-old operations manager.

Jess said: "I fully support Rosie just as long as she's safe.

"I won't be there in the room when it happens, but I'll be nearby. I feel angry that Rosie has to be in this position at all.

Power

"It's ridiculous that the government allows this to happen. With an attitude like this, Labour shouldn't be in power." Jess, from south London, added: "I would find the whole thing hard if Rosie was going to sleep with another woman.

"But I know she doesn't care about men, so if it has to be done, I am right behind her."

Rosie added: "I'm not sexually attracted to men, but if sex is natural to so many people, it can't be that bad.

"I've never had a sexual experience with a man, so I have no idea what it would be like.

"Having sex with a woman is very intimate and is all about the mind.

"But I'm not doing this for my own enjoyment...I'm doing this so I can do my degree without struggling financially."

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At first, this strikes me as comical. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

Just kidding. Actually, despite her creativity, her move is a sad commentary on the state of educational opportunities -- world-wide.

Wow.....what's the difference between that and standing out on the street corner? I think that's terrible.....sad....and all that other stuff.
Millions of people struggle through school....her story is not unique. The only thing that's unique about it is what she's willing to do for it.
I've got a $15,000 school debt to pay off too but I'm not about to go sell my soul to get rid of it. We all CHOOSE to go to school, we weren't forced to go.

To each his own I guess but I wouldn't put myself in that kind of position. What'll happen when she meets a man she wants to be in a relationship with and he says "aren't you that girl that sold her ass on the internet?". Would you guys in here go for that???

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She isn't going to meet any guy -- she's into women! That piece of info is buried in the article somewhere.

And the difference between what she's doin' and working the street is $$$$$$$$
...SOLD to the highest bidder!

Hey, her's is a capitalist's scheme, no?

Oh yah, forgot about that part....I guess I was so damn shocked at the whole situation. stupid girl i think.

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I agree...capitalist it is......although this is not something I would consider, when you look at all the girls who are strippin' (and other things) damn near every night trying to put themselves through college, hers is not a bad idea...considering she'll get all her money in one night - lump sum upfront! So in the scheme of things I guess she'll make out alright....

From a mothers standpoint however, if it was my daughter I would do whatever I could to change her mind.....

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How many prostitutes are out there, forced to do what they do, to survive, to feed the family but not for school fees.

I didn't choose to go to school, my parents did.

What's better, education or inspiration ?

Education makes us all the same but inspiration keeps our mind open.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.(Bob Marley)

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Geez, talk about an indecent proposal! This is a very sad situation that Rosie is in...certainly not worth selling her body for though. If I knew her e-mail address, I'd tell her to check out craigslist.com (includes listings for major european cities as well)for more dignifiable jobs she can do on the side. She'd be better off using her new website to ask for donations. I can only pray for that girl that she doesn't acquire some horrible disease while playing Russian roulette.

That's how I see it too, Cat. As disappointing as it is.

i have mixxed feelings first i think its wrong that shes selling her self and making her parents go through all dis but its going towards her eduaction. well isnt it kinda the same if she losses her virginity for free but now she makes money i dont know my head hurts now ooooooo lol

I would more suggest dat she look for a money man boyfriend and den boops him out. Wah she ago tek IT from a strangah and a weirdo at dat.

Gyal go look a man an stap yu rubbish.

Wonder if she did it on E-bay and how she listed it?

Don't ya'll think that it was probably just a prank
or a publicity stunt
or a subject for a thesis
or...

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no matter if she wants to sell her self just for her education or to make a living she is still a whore. She should desist and apply for some other government program or her parents should do whatever it takes to correct her current path.

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I agree KC. What she is doing or has done at this point is foul.

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This girl needs help and its sad that she has to turn to that to go through school but there are always alternatives. I myself am a single mom and I currently working and going to school to finish my masters and not for nothing in this world would I ever sell my body. If she really felt like being a capitalist she can go strip but something as sacred as your virginity you would think she would value it a bit more...but then again she's a lesbian so go figure. She seems messed up an dher paretns should try to get her some help by seeing a counselor/therapist she's in dire need! What really get me however is that we have so many people sufferring in the world from sickness to starvation and this is the stuff that makes news, we need so much more morality an dless bs making the headlines enough is enough!