I always thought it was guys who are really resentful about getting carousel riders at the end of the ride. They want to be fussy at any cost. Because you're right. With that kind of scratch you can grab eights off the carousel all day.

Indeed. I'm told – I don't know this firsthand – that hookers in Russia and especially Ukraine run at maybe one-tenth to one-third that price.

I'd say that the anonymous bidder SERIOUSLY overpaid – if it were just about sex, which it isn't. The reality is that the kinds of men who pay those huge amounts of money to take the virginity of young girls, aren't in it just for the sex. There is something really twisted about them deep down, a spiritual sickness or rot that manifests itself in the money that they spend on degenerate pursuits.