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Would You Pay $13,000 For Her Virginity?

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:49:00 GMT

Alina Percea is and eighteen-year-old student from Romania now residing in Germany. Recently, she put herself up for auction with a Buy It Now sort-of price of $75,000. That didn't go so well-- Percea ended up settling with an anonymous Italian man for the equivalent of about $13,000 US.

She says she's giving away her virginity in order to help stabalize her family's financial situation. Our question is-- would you, even if you were dirt poor, sell your virginity for so little? Or would you go for even lower? And guys, would you pay $13K for her time?

Percea's case is interesting because the recent virginity auctions, such as that of Natalie Dylan's, involved at least six or seven figures in American dollars. Perhaps Percea should've called the New York Post before the sale ended, as now she's getting the kind of publicity that would've bumped up the bids:

The auction was hit by controversy three weeks ago when a teacher at Alina's former school claimed she was not a virgin.
But Alina, who had already undergone a medical examination, was seen by a second doctor, who confirmed at a press conference she'd never had sex.
'I'm glad it's all over and I'm excited that soon I'll be meeting the winner,' she said. 'I'm not too nervous, because I know I'm doing the right thing for my family.' She admitted: 'Ten thousand euros is not so much money, even in Romania. But it will be enough. 'I hoped I'd be able to have an apartment in town. But now I will live with my parents while I go to university. I hope to find a good job with the police, so I can support my sister and brother through college too.' [Daily Mail]

She wants to find a job in law enforcement?! A rather interesting choice, one must admit, for one who sold herself over the internet...

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Today in Virginity Auctions: an Auctioneer Looking for a Hubby

Colleen Kane — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:02:00 GMT

Alina Percea, an 18-year-old Romanian woman, is offering a weekend of sex for about $75,000, to pay for college. But with the auction ending in three days, she is far short of the goal.

Bids are currently up to only about $7,000 the Sun reported. Alina has a certificate from a gynocologist proving she's a virgin (they do that?), and her offer includes unprotected sex, providing the winning bidder brings his own certificate proving he is disease-free.

But it's not all business, she says. She's hoping to meet her husband this way. “I want the first time I have sex to be special so I wouldn’t want it to be a quickie." Right, special, plus the $75K fee, plus travel and accomodations.

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Today in "How'd That Get Up There?"

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:45:00 GMT

About a month ago, we brought you the incredible story of the English vicar who claimed to have fallen on a potato, which managed to get stuck up his naked ass. We're not sure how you would, um, cover your ass, so to speak, with an excuse for this one...

According to the Sun (really, the only "news" source with anything interesting during this completely dead week), a woman in Romania entered the hospital with complaints of "anal itch." Just kidding, she told them flat out that an enormous can of hairspray had become lodged in her bunghole. Of course, she didn't bother to deny that the can had lodged itself there during some sort of sexual experiment:

[S]he refused to tell surgeons how the can came to be lodged in her rear even after a successful operation dislodged the canister.
Mirandolina Prisca, a doctor at the clinic, explained: "We had X-rays done to localise the object and then we carried out the operation. The patient was fine after it.
"She was very embarrassed. She was clearly in a lot of pain, however it got there."
"This was not just a little can of deodorant, this was a massive can of hairspray," said one hospital worker.
And perhaps unsurprisingly the docs never got to the bottom of this medical mystery!

Don't you love how they italicize that and slap an exclamation point on the end of the sentence to emphasize their wit? Anyway, we lopped off the first part of the story, which identified the poor woman by name (isn't there any sort of doctor-patient confidentiality in that country?) However, you can check out the full scoop here.

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Whoops! We Sent You Home With The Wrong-Gendered Baby

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:34:00 GMT

One Romanian mother got the shock of her life when she went to change her "daughter's" diaper for the first time...

One of our favorite movies is Once Upon A Time in America, which we saw at a young enough age that, upon watching the scene where De Niro and James Woods switch all the name tags on the babies, we were quite traumatized by the idea of a baby swap. Could we have the wrong parents? Nah-- we share too many of the same genes, like the crazy gene and the utter confusion at anything people say gene.

Anyway, enough about that.

A woman who have birth to a baby girl had the shock of her life when she went home from hospital and changed its nappy for the first time - and discovered bumbling nurses had given her a boy instead.

Cristina Zahariuc, 35, from Horlesti in Iasi county, Romania, said she hadn't suspected a thing because the baby was handed over wearing the clothes she had provided.

"Only when I got home and I invited some friends and the baby's godparents to see her did I notice my girl had an penis. I was paralysed," she said.

Look, everybody! My daughter has an amazing vagina! Uh oh.

"It was very strange though. We were calling the hospital to tell them about the confusion and they were hanging up on us saying we should stop fooling around. They thought we were playing tricks on them," he said.

No, they were afraid of you because of this thing called a "lawsuit," which they surely have coming to them. After all, what if the swapped baby had been a girl? Would Mom have found out? And what about the other family? Certainly, they must be ready to file themselves...

One more thing: we understand names may have gotten swapped if two nurses picked the two babies up to be changed and played baby toss or something, but how did the clothes get swapped?

Via news.com.au.

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Hey Film Industry: "Abortion" is Not a Bad Word, Mmmkay?

Emily Farris — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:24:00 GMT

When we saw Knocked-Up last summer, we laughed a lot, sure, but we also got angry at times, because we kept thinking: this story does not end this way. Wouldn't the successful girl abort the stoner's baby after a sloppy one-night stand? But while Judd Apatow was beating around the bush, Romanian writer-director Christian Mungiu went there in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. We're guessing you know what that series represents...

The year is 1987, when Romania is still under the nightmarish police-state rule of Ceausescu and abortions are highly illegal. Nonetheless, college student Otillia (played by Anamaria Marinca) agrees to accompany her pregnant roommate, Gabita, to a man who will terminate her pregnancy. It’s a bleakly comic — but mostly bleak — journey that takes Otillia across a Bucharest ravaged by Communism, leading her to an utterly devastating decision about how far she’ll go to help a friend. Whatever your opinions about abortion, by the end of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, you’ll be grateful you live in a country where we can make such frothy movies (like Knocked Up and Juno) about such a serious subject.

[Via Very Short List]

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When Your Sex Doll Doesn't Love You Long Time

Emily Farris — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:07:00 GMT

A Romanian man has complained that his sex doll stopped moaning, and that it deflated quickly. But we think if he's going for a real-seeming experience, shouldn't he expect a little bit of the magic to wear off? Not so, say consumer officials who ordered a sex shop to replace his doll.

[Courier Mail: Man complains that sex doll's moan stopped working]