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I Sold Panties on Craigslist

The buyers weren't bad, but some of the nonbuyers were slimy

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(Newser) – An "impoverished journalist" not quite desperate enough to sell her body on Craigslist decided to try the next best thing—selling used panties. "Unlike sex for money, selling used underwear didn't feel inherently sleazy or immoral," Meghan Pleticha writes for Nerve. She drew the line at posing in them, but not at meeting buyers at Starbucks, and then discretely removing them in the restroom.

Though the two men who took her up on her ad—after bargaining her down from $100 to $30 a pair—seemed nice and normal enough, the 166 emails she exchanged with non-buyers who "just wanted to get pictures of me in my underwear for free" made her feel slimed. "I'd envisioned a wallet full of Benjamins and a drawer of new panties," she writes. "I hadn't envisioned myself—and I'm cringing as I write this—making extravagant promises about how 'juicy' my panties were."

Meghan Pleticha refused to send interested parties any pictures of herself wearing the panties.
Meghan Pleticha refused to send interested parties any pictures of herself wearing the panties.   (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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And sure, a guy buying panties online might seem a little off, but in the words of my friend the Craigslist gigolo, 'Just because a guy's a panty-sniffer doesn't make him a bad person.' - Meghan Pleticha

I had this nagging feeling that I was doing something wrong—not to the point where I was a bad person, just to the point where a psycho could rationalize killing me or a cop could find a reason to arrest me. - Meghan Pleticha

I still don't have a problem with the idea of selling my panties—if it were just that. But it's not. It's teasing and marketing myself, and ignoring upsetting propositions in the name of a buck. - Meghan Pleticha

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riffran
Oct 31, 09 5:59 AM CDT
lmao.....I keep hearing that guy on the movie Robocop going ..."I'd buy THAT for a dollar".....But I bet she isn't cringing enough to NOT sell her *ahem* wares...lol....but hey ...it's a buck, I geuss Reply
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riffran
Oct 31, 09 6:05 AM CDT
IF and I mean IF I were to buy used underware.(gross)..I dang sure wouldn't buy any with snail trails in it
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dontlikeyou
Oct 31, 09 10:10 AM CDT
Common street trash.
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Carpediem4U
Oct 31, 09 12:47 PM CDT
I love that guy doing that part! Better to sell your undies than get on welfare wouldnt you say! And we are a capitalist nation where "if you can sell it, it's American!" I wish women were a sick as men, I'd sell my titey whiteys all day..lol
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dontlikeyou
Oct 31, 09 3:41 PM CDT
Most women aren't into skidmarks.
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