Cole Porter wrote "Love for Sale," but that's not what Miranda Huba will be auctioning off in Candy Tastes Nice , her one-woman show about a young woman selling her virginity to help pay for her student loans. Huba was inspired to write Candy Tastes Nice after witnessing the public's reaction to Natalie Dylan, a year-old women's studies major who auctioned off her virginity in to help pay for graduate school. The play follows the young woman as her decision becomes the center of a mass-media frenzy that escalates into an international spectacle as countries bid against each other to win her virginity. While the plot centers around the young woman's decision to sell her virginity, her sexual inexperience is not the focus of the play. Huba first saw Dylan interviewed on the Tyra Banks Show and was perturbed by both Banks' and the audience's response to Dylan's decision, which she described as condescending. It was sort of an attack.
A medical school student who put her virginity up for auction on her website in March has revealed her face. The year-old previously just had body shots with her face obscured by the fake name she is using, "Elizabeth Raine. I am sorry if I disappoint you, but all other pertinent or salacious details will remain private. Raine, who grew up in Saudi Arabia, is auctioning her virginity for money, but also cites adventure, eroticism and scandal as reasons. The 27 year old says losing her virginity is the least important matter in her life and is considered merely as a physical act with no emotional strings attached.
More accurately, this is a cultural statement. It is also makes lucid statements about the nature of possibilities for women in terms of access to rewards, resources and power. So far, the bids have exceeded 3.