A Tale of Two Bunnies

We have long wondered precisely what post-graduate activity women’s studies courses prepare young women for. The Bunny Ranch has given us an answer. “Last year a 22-year-old Californian going by the pseudonym Natalie Dylan decided that a fun thesis for her master’s degree would be the following experiment: Auction her virginity to the highest bidder,” Ed Vitagliano reports in the August 2009 issue of the AFA Journal. “Dylan had already earned her bachelor’s degree in women’s studies and, in September 2008, while working in preparation for entering a master’s program, came up with the idea.”

The AFA Journal is published by the American Family Association. “She has avoided any pesky prostitution prosecutions by making the offer via a whorehouse in Nevada, where prostitution is legal,” Vitagliano informs us of “Dylan’s” research.

Indeed, the web site for said brothel, the aforementioned Bunny Ranch, gives Dylan a whole page with a nice pink background. “Not only does she have a degree in Women’s Studies, she is looking to raise money to continue her education and get her master’s degree in Psychology so she can practice Family Psychology,” the web site informs us. “She comes to us here at the bunny ranch with a very special gift, Natalie is a virgin and would like to sell this priceless and rare commodity in a very exclusive and private setting.”

“One time only she will appear at the bunny ranch and give up her virginity to the highest bidder.” Here’s the crowning irony: Women’s Studies courses were created and added to college curricula by feminists over the past three decades.

One of the feminist movement’s icons, Gloria Steinem, originally achieved fame when, as a journalist, she worked undercover as a Playboy bunny, as Hugh Hefner called the cocktail waitresses working in his chain of joints. In her article, Steinem exposed the treatment these bunnies received in Hef’s kingdom.

Today we would call it sexual harassment. Or would we?

Ask Natalie.

Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.