Personaly, I think everything is for sale. If they want to sell themselves as internet relationships. Go ahead. It's just online and dosn't really hurt anyone.

I think the guys who pay for it are abit sad however.

Life: No one gets out alive.

Its all just a revamped version of on line porn. It is a discredit to EBay to even allow them on there.

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

Well, it looks like there is a combination of "innocent" auctioning of modest wares to professional web sexploitation going on in e-Bay.

Unless e-Bay itself permits the visuals of what is advertised, I don't know if you could call it porn, so to speak. Some of these girls are offering to sell porn, that's for sure.

I still think they are all asking for trouble. There are so many weirdos out there today. If they think are able to protect their anonymity and physical security through eBay, I think they are being stupid.

It makes you wonder what kind of person would offer their "friendship" for auction anyway? That would seem to indicate that they would not really value such a relationship because it would be based upon a financial transation, which is not a good basis for friendship.

i think its just sad though, cause most of these
"girls" are doing this because they are strapped
for cash, and we've all been strapped for cash
and you know how much we need that shiny cash!

If they really are desperate for cash, I can understand their motivation. But think about it. They are not so strapped for cash that they were unable to setup their auction account on eBay... which I doubt they did by proxy. There are, of course, free or relatively cheap accesses to the internet at public librarys and all but if they intend to transact business, it is not the way to go.

It is more a matter, I think, of a mistaken belief in an easy, no sweat, no pain and no commitments way to make money. And that's what makes me concerned. These girls are making a mistake in thinking that way. They are exposing themselves (no pun intended... ok, a little intended ) to the risk of being got to, physically, by what appears to be an ever growing number of socio-psychopaths who also turn out to be adept at hacking.

Ooops. Sorry. Just realized I was standing on a soapbox.

*steps back down from soap box*

I'll stop now.

Mrs Taw showed me "virtual boyfriends" on eBay over a year ago, I just thought it was some sad f*** trying to get some attention, or a p*ss-taking kn*b like me having a laugh.

-related but not the same-

I saw a telly prog the other night about men and women who trawl through US prison web-sites looking for partners who are in jail. How bad is that? Women who start "relationships" with death-row prisoners and even marry them (but never have to put up with the mundane realities of marital life) Men who look through pics of women prisoners (but dump em when they start asking for money)

It was horribly fascinating and dreadfully exploitational. Yuk. Didn't even know it went on. Jailbabes.com or some such. Course as it turns out, the searcher can check what the prisoner is telling them about their offence against the correctional institutions own records. One woman told a guy she was in for credit card fraud, she was actually in for torturing her 1yr old child. Whoa. Slight retelling of the facts there. luv.

The sad thing is, I am not surprised by any of this. It's just another symptom of the deep-seated problems in society, and "the human condition" as they call it.