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Aleexandra Khefren (born Oana Alexandra Raducu) is an 18-year-old aspiring model from Romania. According to her social media posts, she’s a workout fanatic and idolizes Muhammad Ali. She lives with her parents in Bucharest. She’s also a virgin and is trying to sell herself for one night to anyone who will pay her one million Euros.

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Khefren’s story has been spreading over the last few days with international coverage underlining the international nature of the story. The proposed transaction is being promoted to occur in Germany, and Khefren recently went on television on Britain’s iTV in London to promote her story.

Khefren posted online her reasons for pursuing her plan:

“I can travel around the world, study in a good University and my parents are poor, i can buy them a house. There are so many Options and i want to use them now where i am young. A lot of Girls giving their Virginity for nothing to a man who leave her after most times. Thats not worth it. So i want to use my Virginity for something that its worth it. Something that will creat a better future for me. And i think the money for this auction can give me definitely a better life.”

One problem is her family knew nothing about this upcoming transaction and, despite claiming she’s doing it to help them financially, they refute all her claims that they need the money and are being evicted from their home. The Daily Mail confirmed with the family that they are not suffering from any money problems. If she does go through with it, her father Toni Raducu, a police officer in Bucharest has stated he will disown her, which just makes the story that much more sad.

A family friend told the Daily Mail, ‘He can’t understand why she is doing this. It is so unlike her and feels someone is influencing her. He is devastated and his wife has not stopped crying since she found out.”

This isn’t the first time a young woman has solicited financial gain for losing her virginity. Katherine Stone, currently residing at a legal brothel in Nevada is auctioning her virginity, at a reported level of $400,000. Another woman, Natalie Dylan, made headlines back in 2009 when she claimed to have received a high bid of $3.8 million for her virginity — though the transaction was never consummated. There are plenty more stories of this nature.

While much is indeed made of the women who hope to gain financially from the fact that they had never had sex before, much more should be made of the men who are willing to pay these types of sums.