Virginity Auction Ends in Claim of Exploitation
And you thought losing your virginity was hard. Apparently, the young woman who sold her virginity online last October for a whopping $780,000 never received payment for her services, and what's more, is still a virgin.
Catarina Migliorini, a 21-year-old virgin from Brazil, has come out this week to publicly decry the way in which she was treated while her virginity was being auctioned off to the highest bidder. She contends that she now considers herself a victim, and one who has been exploited for a profit.
The whole fiasco started when Migliorini was approached by filmmaker Justin Sisely, who was putting together a film called "Virgins Wanted." Sisely promised that he would pay her 20 percent of the documentary's profits, in addition to whatever she made from auctioning off her virginity.
"I felt I was a victim ... I was misled by Mr. Justin Sisely," Migliorini said. "I believe he is trying to defraud me and others."
Migliorini's skepticism has come from the fact that she has yet to be paid the money that was promised to her at auction, and furthermore, that the whole sequence of events was nothing like Sisely had promised.
She notes that once the auction had ended she flew out to Bali on her own dime to meet up with Sisely, who had originally said that there may be an auction at the end of the film. Once they had met up however, news of Sisely's auction had already spread worldwide.
"Justin made me believe this was a serious documentary about young virgins and said that there might or might not be an auction at the end of the documentary," she said.
Migliorini decided to go ahead with it anyway, and was ecstatic to hear that she would make over $700,000 for her participation. That money was to come from the auction's winner, a man named "Natsu" believed to be a businessman from China. That's where things got especially fishy.
When Migliorini met up with Natsu, he was nothing like she was led to believe. Furthermore, she did not even have sex with the man. To this day, the still-virgin claims that she does not believe that Natsu even exists.
Sisely has so far denied Migliorini's claim that she did not have sex, and has said that he has the footage to prove it. As for her money, well, the jury is still out on that one. One thing is for sure though, if you want losing your virginity to be an adventure, you should probably hire an unknown filmmaker to auction it off to the highest bidder.