Graciela Yataco

Graciela Yataco is the smart seductress who started all this virginity auction trend. The 18-year-old Peruvian model was barely squeaking by in 2005. She was responsible for her mother’s medical bills and also had to support her younger brother. So she decided, in an unprecedented move, to sell her virginity to the highest bidder. While a Canadian man offered her $1.5 million, mostly what she got from her religious countrymen was a lot of hate mail and public humiliation. Despite her sob story, no one offered to simply make a charitable contribution. Yaraco was somehow still hopeful she could better her situation by selling her virginity, but at the last minute she backed out of the deal. [BBC]