Thousands of girls and young women in Russia are selling their virginity after finding rich lovers online, according to a new report.
Networks of specialist dealers and scouts actively recruit virgins and link them to wealthy businessmen, taking a slice of fees which can range between a few hundred and tens of thousands of pounds.
In other cases females place their own advertisements selling the ‘right to the first night’ on forums and dating websites typically offering themselves to ‘adult, affluent man’.
This advert reads: ‘Girl. 17. Selling virginity. Details in private messages.’ It is part of the Bad girls club, offering the right to the first night
One advert from a forum called ‘Bad girls club’ states: ‘Looking for virgin girls under 19….Smart, beautiful, charming, from any cities in Russia.
‘We pay tickets to Moscow and back, 1-2 days….Type of girls – as on the photo’. The advert shows a girl in lingerie in a revealing pose on a bed (pictured, below, under Milana Mercer).
Another Russian social media forum recruiting young women is called Desperate Virgins’ Club (pictured, above).
A 19-year-old girl from Moscow naming herself Milana Mercer stated in a typical online advertisement: ‘Selling virginity, please send me a private message. I am from Moscow, I’m 19, 175 cm (tall), weight – 65 kg.’
A 19-year-old calling herself Milana Mercer encourages people to buy her virginity after private messaging her
Another advert reads: ‘Girl. 17. Selling virginity. Details in private messages.’
One more, promoting a virginity buying and selling site, boasts: ’Marina sold her virginity for 1.5 million roubles (£18,900) and bought a great apartment.’
A 20-year-old called Anastasia from rust belt industrial city Magnitogorsk told Bumaga lifestyle website she is currently offering to sell her virginity to help pay for cancer treatment for her mother.
She is waiting for an offer of 300,000 roubles – or £3750, said the report.
‘Instead of just losing my virginity, it’s better if I make some money from it,’ said 18-year-old Lena from Moscow.
‘It’s not prostitution. I want to meet a wealthy man and try to get into a relationship with him,’ explained 19-year-old Dasha.
Rita, 18, from Rostov said: ‘To start a business, you need capital. You can’t make a lot having a regular job, but here you don’t even need to do anything.’
Dmitry, 38, from Siberia said he had twice ‘bought’ 18 year old virgins aiming to find a wife who had ‘not had someone’.
The first cost £1,250, the second £880, but he failed to find the wife he wanted. The first wanted to pay for her move to a new city.
This advert boasts ’Marina sold her virginity for 1.5 million roubles’ and claims she bought an apartment
‘She tried (during sex) not to show emotions. I asked her how she felt, and she said it was unpleasant at first and then she started enjoying it.’
Bisexual Anna, 24, a married medical company executive, said she paid between £250 and £500 for virgins behind her husband’s back because girls on dating websites seem ‘vulgar and dirty…it’s better to take someone who wasn’t touched’.
Marina said she sold her virginity to a businessman for £7,000 which she spent on plastic surgery – but now, seven years later, she acts as an ‘manager’ – or agent – linking teenage girls to wealthy clients. Teams of scouts help to recruit suitable girls.
The report said: ‘On average girls are paid 200,000-300,000 ruble (£2,500 to £3,750). Payment depends on age and appearance.
‘The perfect type is 17-to-18 years old, short, very cute and modest.
‘On average every manager sells up to 10 virgins a month, warning around 300,000 ruble (£3,750) a month.’
Some 20-to-50 per cent is added to the price as the agent’s fee. Those selling their virginity are expected to show a medical certificate confirming they have not had sex.
But many women ‘go through surgery to restore their hymens’, then ‘swindle’ men into believing they are still virgins and cashing in on the lucrative market, according to the Bumaga report.
This woman claims she made £20,000 by selling her virginity when she was 18
Sergey Chumakov, general director of Lancet Surgery Centre, said: ‘This is a popular service.
‘Many have this surgery done several times. I know there were cases when girl had this surgery done 15 times.’
Elena, 22, from Moscow told Bumaga that she sold her ‘virginity’ twice and is not planning to stop
‘This is now my job and I can live on the money I’m paid for a couple of months,” she said.
In 2016 model Anna Feschenko, 17, flew to Dubai aiming to sell her virginity for £9,600 to a wealthy Arab man, according to her travelling companion.
Anna’s mother contacted police and the teenager returned from the United Arab Emirates.
She did not comment on whether she had in the end sold her virignity. Her friend called Ekaterina said: ‘It is a privilege in the UAE to be a virgin. I think Anna was just impressed with the amount of money she could get.’
In a recent case, a mother was detained for seeking to sell her 13-year-old daughter’s virginity to a businessman. (pictured)
Irina Gladkikh, 35, an estate agent, to Moscow from Chelyabinsk with the underage girl in order to sell her ‘first night’ to a ‘rich client’ for £19,100.
A room in Amaks hotel in Predmostnaya square, Karsnoyarsk, where an 18-year-old girl sold her virginity for nearly £20,000
In a confession on video she said: ‘We came to Moscow to get to know a rich man, in order to get financial help for providing sexual services by my daughter.’
The mother and her friend were detained in a police sting operation at a floating restaurant in Moscow.
A 17-year-old from Krasnoyarsk using the nickname Shatuniha was reported to have sold her virginity in an online auction for around £20,000.
She told would-be buyers four years ago: ‘I am in urgent need of money, so I am selling the most precious thing I possess. I am ready to meet up soon, even as soon as tomorrow, and I am ready to have my virginity verified.’
She would go to Hotel Amaks in the city ‘with a document confirming my virginity, and with a person who will take the cash and leave, so that I am not fooled.
‘This person will take away the money, but I will stay… The money should be cash only.’
The alleged buyer’s name was given as Evgeniy Volnov, but no details about him were published.