Follow your heart, Natalie

Natalie Dylan, she's got the picture. Way to stimulate the bowels of the economy as well as of men Natalie, you really hit home with this one.

The 22-year-old Sacramento State graduate of the woman's studies program, who is going by the pseudonym, Natalie Dylan, decided that in order to pay for the schooling she can't afford, she's capitalizing on her long saved virginity to make an extra dollar. To help with her education to get a masters degree in marriage counseling.

So, Dylan, after being denied by eBay for her auction, went to Dennis Hof at the largest brothel in Carson City, Nevada - The Bunny Ranch, who said he would handle the transaction. Dylan is not, however, giving it out to the highest bidder, but to one man at her discretion. She is screening the bidders to make sure that it is just the right guy.

CNN interviewed Dylan earlier this month and Dylan is said to have "definitely wanted to be 100% about the romance," when she was younger, but she describes that as she grew up, "reality kind of hit" and so she "capitalized" on what she saw as the only option to go.

Hof mentioned in an interview with CNN that Dylan's step dad applied for student loans fraudulently, and once he received the checks, cashed them and ran off. There is a warrant out for his arrest.

The woman obviously comes from a broken home. Her parents are obviously either divorced, or never married. And if her step father was bold enough to fraudulently sign for student loans, and then run off, I can't imagine how good of a father he really was to her, if he was even there in the first place. A fleeting image of a man. He seemed like he just used her for money, sound familiar? And like Freud said, if fathers are a model for what women look for in a husband...

Oh, but how the tables have turned. Now Natalie is getting money, but instead of cash from the government in loans and grants, she's getting it from the one thing she can think of that's left. Cashing out the check that she has held onto for 22 years.

It's hard to fathom the awkward nature of the feelings to which she would be going through on the night when her bidder comes to take his bidding. He has put a price on something precious to her, on an area of the body and of life that is private, and secluded. A place we have spent our whole lives saving; covering; hiding from the public view.

But Dylan has "capitalized" off of this view.

There have been to many instances observed of completely unhappy, moneygrubbing people who crawled their way to the top of a ruthless society by being just as equally as ruthless to their inferiors. While some of the most poor people are some of the most content, not because of what's in their pockets or because of what's in their closets or garages, but because of what they have in their hearts, as cheesy and as cliche as it may sound, but a warm heart and an empty wallet are better than a cold heart and a fat money fold.

No, the two cannot go together. Think about what it means to have a warm heart. Think about what it means to have a cold heart. What are the characteristics of each?

So, Ms. Dylan, is a masters degree really worth losing something you once thought to be precious? Something you once thought you would wait till marriage for? For that right guy? I guess the one with the right price will be the one. And you will be joined in the matrimony of capitalism, opening those good old legs up for business.


There have been way to many girls who once thought that they were the last virgins on earth. That losing such innocence was a shameful badge to be bashfully worn, but worn with a sense of accomplishment. Slut if you do, prude if you don't.

Empowerment is not taking advantage of what women fight to keep from getting taken advantage of. Empowerment of a woman is taking every stereotype and throwing it out the window. The sluts, the hoes, the prudes, the tomboys, the bitches, and the dikes. Throw it out of a moving car, and keep moving. Open up the mind and the heart, connect the two and let the mind be content blind to everything but what a woman's heart is after. Whatever that may be.