Online bidding in the auction of a 22-year-old student's virginity has reached $5.4 million after more than 10,000 responses, with the top offer so far coming from an Australian businessman.
The college student from San Diego in California, using the pseudonym Natalie Dylan, is selling herself through the website of the enormous Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel in the US state of Nevada.
Miss Dylan told ninemsn the auction was a "business opportunity".
"A lot of media are saying I'm doing this to pay for school — school is definitely one of the things I'm going to put this money to but I see this as a really good business opportunity," Miss Dylan said.
"I wanted to get my masters degree and will put some of this money toward that but it was not the reason I decided to do it."
Her story garnered worldwide attention last September following an appearance on the notorious Howard Stern radio show.
Since then bids have rocketed from US$243,000 (A$356,000) to US$3.8 million (A$5.4 million) with an unnamed 39-year-old Australian businessman as the highest current bidder.
Miss Dylan said the response has been overwhelming and in some cases, downright bizarre.
"I get really, really off the wall stuff," she said.
"I get some really out there ones like this one guy who works at a zoo and he offered to break out a tiger — then there's this guy who offered to divulge medical secrets."
The auction has been going since July last year, but Miss Dylan said she doesn't have a set date to end it, if she does go through with it.
"I don't have a set date — each day I get about a hundred different emails — so basically I've decided to end this when it dies down," she said.
"I've been offered to write a book, a possible movie deal and there's other business opportunities coming my way from just putting this out there, so I'm not going to prematurely end something that can bring me a lot of money and success."
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