Nowadays, human 'creativity' growing along with technology
Anyway, about the issue at hand.. ebay influenced is it? Think can sell anything. lol.. but sure, used panties can be sold to people who wants to buy, well, anything can be sold as long as there are buyers.. but personally, I think it's sorta disgusting considering how unhygenic it is.
From a female's point of view, I do feel ashamed to read news like that though, because I'm sure girls can do better things to earn money than lose their self respect. But otherwise, dunno... it's her business to do what she thinks works. Her loss is in the end, still her loss and her own consequences to bear.
But I can somehow figure out a possible idea of why she does this. I mean, she owns the underwear and probably have alot to spare (Not sure, but I get the idea girls got alot of underwears..lol), and she's schooling. If I read the correct article, then she'll probably be in tertiary education at the moment and if I understand right, it is quite a hectic life.
Sure she could get a proper part time job since she still has arms, legs, and a working brain, but thinking about it entrepreneurship-wise, even if it's supposedly not really a good idea in terms of selfrespect, it's quite an interesting approach. She has the stock, she knows she has the buyers available, and what more, she don't have to rush between work and school to earn the money she wants. It's her convenient way of doing business afterall. It may not be a conformity, but hey, it works!
Like mentioned, people in society are coming up with more and more weird extreme ways to do business or live their lives, so we should start to accept all these because in a long run it may very well become the common thing! Also, accepting may not necessarily mean to agree that it is right, but it's better than to stay close minded about what's not common.