A Lesson In Double Standards: Model sells her virginity for $2.9 Million

I was reading @kyriacos's post 19 Year Old Model Sells Her Virginity For $2.9 MILLION as I was putting together today's @newsagg headlines.

That had me thinking. I realized there is potentially a good lesson on Double Standards here.

There is a lot of the outrage over this and essentially referring to it as prostitution. In a sense yes, it is prostitution. If so, so what? It is her body. She can decide what she wants to do with it. She is not forcing you or anyone else to have sex with her. She is a virgin so she is not potentially having sex with someone and concealing a sexually transmittable disease. Now she her self risks exposure, but she can mitigate that by what she agrees to. It is also her risk to take. It is not your right to deny anyone what they do with their body. It is not my right either.

You can talk all you want about how detestable you may see such and action. That too is a right you have. It is not your right however to deny another human their choices they choose to make with their body. It could be argued that this is not true with children as they do not yet have the ability to defend themselves and make informed and rationally developed decisions. This woman is not a child. She is beyond the age of consent. She is legally considered an adult.

I have not yet reached the part about the double standard.

Think of arranged marriages where a child reaches the age where the culture and family deems them of acceptable age to wed and bare children. It is not about love. There are usually benefits to the arrangement for the families, the nations, and other things. In some cultures this includes a dowry which is given in exchange for that child's virginity. In fact, there has been a great deal of outrage when a "wife" in such an exchange is not a virgin. In this case it is OTHER people benefiting from the virginity of this human. It is often not desirable by the person losing their virginity yet it is still expected and in some cases forced.

The parents, the cultures, or the nations are essentially PIMPING out a person. This is one illustration of the double standard.

You see there are many ACCEPTED cases of giving up virginity that DO NOT benefit the virgin themselves. Yet when the person chooses a voluntary path to giving up their virginity that is lucrative and beneficial to themselves they are suddenly outraged.

Virgins sacrificed to appease gods, or dragons, or as some other lottery are things of the past. In some cultures they may be still occurring.

There are some Muslims and Hindus that very much remove the choice of virginity and choice of who it is lost to from the virgin.

I personally despise double standards. I am also a strong advocate for voluntaryism. I believe people should be able to make their own choices with regards to their body, and their time. It doesn't matter whether I agree with their personal choices or not. They are responsible for the consequences and outcomes of their own choices.

Observe. Learn from the choices other people make.

• Model, 19, claims to have sold her virginity for nearly $3 MILLION to an Abu Dhabi businessman through an escort website - and says the second highest bidder was a Hollywood actor
• Student, 26, is SELLING her virginity to the highest bidder on an escort website in the hope of raising millions to start her own business - and claims her parents agree it's a good idea
• Romanian 18-year-old girl claims she has sold her virginity for £2 MILLION - despite her parents' threats to disown her - after sordid four-month bidding spree
• LIKE A VIRGIN? British woman, 26, hopes to raise millions selling her virginity online – and claims her parents support it