Natalie Dylan is willing to offer up her virginity to the highest bidder. Howard Stern on Tuesday morning kicked off the auction of a 22-year-old beauty's virginity.

How exactly will it be proven that she is a virgin? Well, the old-fashioned way of course. Dylan will allow a medical doctor to take a look under the hood and make certain that her Hymen is still intact.

Why is Natalie Dylan doing this? The San Diego woman says she wants to sell her maidenhood in order to pay her college tuition.

"I don't have a moral dilemma with it," says Dylan.

"We live in a capitalist society," she tells The New York Daily News. "Why shouldn't I be allowed to capitalize on my virginity?"

Dylan was introduced to Stern by Dennis Hof, oner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Nevada's famed legal whore-house.

The auction is being conducted online via bunnyranch.com. The deal will also be consummated at the Bunny Ranch, where Dylan's sister is already employed.

A larger and clearer version of the above photo can be found here. An additional photo can be found here.

Update: Stern insists he's hurt and aggravated by tabloid reports he's behind plans to auction off a 22-year-old California girl's virginity. On his show on Tuesday (09Sep08), livid Stern raged, "I'm really aggravated by this.

"I don't feel like defending myself to my kids about something that's in the paper that isn't true."