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"   Happy Tuesday! Two creepy trends have combined to make one fused-together super-creepy trend: The virginity auction of a Brazilian sex doll\u2014specifically, a Real Doll, the same high-end brand who &amp;quot;starred&amp;quot; opposite Ryan Gosling in Lars and The Real Girl. Sex toy retailer Sexonico has offered up the very first night with so-called virginal &amp;quot;Valentina&amp;quot; to any sex doll enthusiast with enough bones to win the auction before March 31st. Bidding has already gone up to a whopping $105,000, which is roughly one year of private college tuition or 90,000 Little Debbie Zebra Cakes (our preferred form of currency.) While good pillow talk obviously doesn&amp;#039;t come with the lucky winner&amp;#039;s package (urgh, sorry), here&amp;#039;s what does: A night in the presidential suite of Motel Swing [a pay-by-the-hour motel] in the city of S\u00E3o Paulo A special candlelit dinner with French Champagne An aromatic bath with rose petals Roundtrip flights (if you don&amp;#039;t live in Sao Paulo) Special lingerie (this is for her!) A digital camera so you can film and after show it to your friends. Is the last one the creepiest? Or the &amp;quot;aromatic bath?&amp;quot; Tough call. Although it&amp;#039;s not the first virginity auction in Brazil, Valentina is the inanimate follower of more than a few young Brazilian women who auctioned off their own virginity for various reasons within the last year. Twenty-year-old Catarina Migliorini, a documentary subject, earned $780,000 for hers, and the less-publicised Rebecca Bernardo, 18, put herself up for auction in order to pay her mother&amp;#039;s medical bills.  Weird? Absolutely. But on the bright side, the man who wins a night with Valentina is essentially just paying to use an expensive sex toy\u2014although this is unfathomable to most of us, it&amp;#039;s is a lot less depressing than the commodification of an actual woman&amp;#039;s virginity. Lest we forget that there are all kinds of colorful human beings in the world, this guy is in love with a life-sized inflatable dragon. Le fin. For more musings from Anna, follow her on Twitter. Photo credit: istockphoto "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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