- A student is so hard up she has decided to make the ultimate
sacrifice ...she is selling her virginity to the highest bidder on the
internet.
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- So far more than 400 men, many of them sickos, have placed
bids offering 18-year-old Rosie Reid up to £10,000 for sex.
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- The drastic action has left Rosie's parents sickened.
Her doctor dad has told her she "is selling her soul". Her nurse
mum is outraged.
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- And Rosie is even willing to sleep with a man despite
it being abhorrent to her"she is a LESBIAN.
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- But she would rather prostitute herself than see her
studies suffer.
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- She is currently forced to work long hours in poorly
paid part-time jobs to pay her tuition fees.
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- Rosie said: "The way things are going, I'll leave
university £15,000 in debt. That's why I'm taking drastic action."
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- She started her Bachelor of Science degree in social
policy at the University of Bristol three months ago and is already £3,000
in debt.
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- Rosie estimates her three-year course at the university,
where Prime Minister Tony Blair's son Euan is also a student, will cost
her £7,500 a year.
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- "I needed to raise cash and I was thinking about
what I could sell," said Rosie, who has never even seen a man naked.
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- "It seemed that my virginity was something really
valuable yet at the same time something I could do without. With £10,000
in the bank I could work less. I could live comfortably until the end of
my course and concentrate on my studies.
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- "People have sex all the time and they do it free
of charge. And I don't know many people who actually stay with the first
person they ever sleep with. Unless I do something like this I'm going
to be in financial trouble."
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- Difficult
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- Rosie, who has two younger brothers, placed her ad on
the popular eBay website earlier this month.
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- Her posting, which ran alongside ads for secondhand cars
and unwanted furniture, read: "Eighteen-year-old university student
looking to sell virginity. Never lost it due to lesbianism. Will bung in
free massage if you are any good. Picture on request."
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- Rosie, from Dulwich, south-east London, currently qualifies
for a government loan of £3,000 a year"less than HALF what she
needs to cover fees and other outgoings. She is juggling her studies with
part-time jobs to pay for her food, clothes, travel and the £300
a year she needs for textbooks.
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- Rosie said: "The government has made it difficult
for people like me to follow their ambition to study.
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- "I wish we could concentrate on learning rather
than constantly worrying about money or working to get by.
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- "I think Tony Blair and Charles Clarke are encouraging
a class divide, which is wrong and goes against all of Labour's principles."
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- The bright student, who achieved two As and a B at A-level,
works three shifts a week as a silver service waitress. She often does
12-hour shifts, which means sacrificing lectures to make a modest £4.50
an hour.
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- She said: "Doing these kind of hours affects my
studies. When I come home I'm so tired it's hard to fit in university work.
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- "I'm not willing to sacrifice my future for the
sake of a part-time job, so I am faced with two choices"years in debt
or prostituting myself on the internet for my education."
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- Within days of placing the ad, Rosie was bombarded with
e-mails from around the world. eBay had nearly 7,000 hits on her ad over
three days, almost ten a second.
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- But after three days the website decided to remove her.
Rosie is now setting up her own website where she will continue to advertise
herself.
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- Earlier this month American interior designer Cathy Cobblerson,
24, offered her virginity for $100,000 (£65,000) on eBay to pay off
credit card bills.
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- But some of the depraved responses Rosie has received
highlight the danger she has put herself in to make money.
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- A response from one man said: "What size are your
breasts?" And asked whether she was willing to engage in unusual sex.
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- Other e-mails were supportive. One said: "You are
a ballsy young lass. There is no greater gift than that of education and
I admire you loads for what you are doing."
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- Rosie said: "On the third day the response to the
auction was just huge.
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- "Some of the e-mails were from people just having
a laugh, but I got quite a few from people saying that they really admired
me, and others from people who were really sympathetic.
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- "One guy wrote to me and said he would pay £10,000
for my virginity. I probably would have gone for it but I waited to see
what would happen." She added: "I was holding out for more cash,
but also seeing if people were serious.
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- "You could tell those who really meant it because
they would ask me about pregnancy and protection."
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- Rosie is in a lesbian relationship with lover Jess Cameron,
a 26-year-old operations manager.
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- Jess said: "I fully support Rosie just as long as
she's safe.
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- "I won't be there in the room when it happens, but
I'll be nearby. I feel angry that Rosie has to be in this position at all.
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- Power
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- "It's ridiculous that the government allows this
to happen. With an attitude like this, Labour shouldn't be in power."
Jess, from south London, added: "I would find the whole thing hard
if Rosie was going to sleep with another woman.
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- "But I know she doesn't care about men, so if it
has to be done, I am right behind her."
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- Rosie added: "I'm not sexually attracted to men,
but if sex is natural to so many people, it can't be that bad.
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- "I've never had a sexual experience with a man,
so I have no idea what it would be like.
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- "Having sex with a woman is very intimate and is
all about the mind.
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- "But I'm not doing this for my own enjoyment...I'm
doing this so I can do my degree without struggling financially."
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