The Price She Put on It

Mine went at thirteen in the stinking garage of an actual Nazi, somewhere before sunrise, and I didn’t even get a goodbye kiss. Catarina Migliorini had a different approach.

The twenty-one-year-old Brazilian student decided her first time had a price somewhere in the high six figures. She listed it on a site called Virgins Wanted and walked away with a winning bid of around $800,000 from a Japanese man who went by Natsu. Then she looked at him and apparently decided no amount of money covered it. The deal collapsed. She stayed broke and intact.

So she’s trying again. New site, same premise, higher floor: minimum $100,000, target closer to $1.5 million—fifteen times the entry price. Whether anyone actually meets that number is almost beside the point. The auction itself has already done what it was designed to do. In Brazil she’s become a minor celebrity, the kind who ends up in the local Playboy. Which, predictably, is exactly what happened.

There’s something almost admirable about the clarity of the transaction. No performance of romance, no pretending it’s anything other than commerce. Most people’s first times come wrapped in at least some mutual self-deception. Catarina skipped that entirely.