Date Auction

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>As part of student council next year, we were thinking about doing a date auction. If unfamiliar, this is where you auction off “desirable” male and female students to the student body for charity. These students who are auctioned off go on a date with those who “bought” them. </p>

<p>Ideas? Pros vs cons? Anyone have experience? Insight would be greatly appreciated! Thanks guys!</p>

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<p>sounds fun but potentially very, very, creepy for the auctioned people</p>

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<p>Prostitution is bad.</p>

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<p>Of course the ones auctioned would have to be COMPLETELY comfortable with it. We won’t force anyone into doing this as it is understandable why it would be uncomfortable. </p>

<p>Lol, I was going to add in the first post that this was potentially border-line prostitution.</p>

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<p>Wow, that sounds terrible.</p>

<p>I imagine people with money who could otherwise not get a date with the auctioned person(s) will purchase said date and then be crushed when the person does not enjoy the date and/or does not wish to go on a second date.</p>

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I concur.</p>

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<p>But the large sums paid for said date would go to charity… People understand this is most likely a one-time date.</p>

<p>So negatives so far, any positives?</p>

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And, out of curiosity, how much do you actually expect to make for each date? Is the price all-inclusive, or are they expected to pay for the privilege of paying to take the person on a date?</p>

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<p>We did something similar at my school. Instead of a date, we made them their slave for a day. They basically just dressed in some ridiculous outfit for a day and followed the person that bought them. Pretty fun.</p>

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<p>I don’t see why people think this is such terrible idea. This type of thing is pretty common.</p>

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<p>All inclusive. We are a public school in a well-off area, and some individual dates would be expected to go for $200, if not more. </p>

<p>Average date would probably be around $30-$50.</p>

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Common=Good. Woo!</p>

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Well then…</p>

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<p>This sounds like borderline prostitution to me.</p>

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<p>Common => people won’t be wierded out for the reasons mentioned above.</p>

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<p>Its not prostitution. People need to relax. </p>

<p>My biggest concern would be that people won’t pay much for dates. But if that’s not an issue, I don’t see why there would be a problem. Just make strict guidelines for what is expected of a “date.”</p>

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<p>@Twizzle how much of a success was your “a slave for a day” fundraiser? </p>

<p>YES strict restrictions for sure! Without them, this would turn to shambles. And deter the people being auctioned.</p>

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<p>It was a can food drive. It was pretty successful, people just bought their friends and donated a ton.</p>

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<p>We actually do have this at my school.</p>

<p>The dates are capped at $200, and if no one bids on any given person, then StuCo members in the audience MUST bid. The minimum bid is $20. </p>

<p>It usually turns out to be pretty successful, and a lot of people just end up bidding on their BFs/GFs.</p>

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<p>@agnijay ahh thats some great insight! Thanks! </p>

<p>@Twizzle that sounds like a lot of fun :)</p>

<p>This is great guys! Thanks for all the input :)</p>

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<p>Sex is all that is missing for this to be prostitution. Slavery is another word that comes to mind. Fun, reasonable, ideal…not so much.</p>

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<p>Yes, volunteer slavery. Very close to real slavery</p>