Strapped for cash? Panties sell!

We’ve all heard those easy money stories, but is it reliable income? How much work is actually involved in easy money?

Hypothesis: Craigslist is a powerful tool. You can use it to get an apartment, find a job, or have sex with a prostitute. In college I was surprised to find out my good friend was one of the latter. He’d started on a whim after meeting some Craigslist sex workers at a party, and now he was making $100 to receive a blowjob. (Don’t get too excited, straight guys — he was getting the BJ from another dude.) And one of the girls he met at that party sold her panties on the site for $200 a pair.

I’d heard rumors about this kind of thing for years, but here was proof it was possible. Two-hundred bucks for underwear? I wasn’t up for posing in my panties, but I could totally do that! Unlike sex for money, selling used underwear didn’t feel inherently sleazy or immoral. 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.” After years of flirting with the idea, it was time for me to find out: can a girl make easy money off her dirty laundry? And how much money are we talking?

Read all about Meghan Pleticha’s experience in Nerve’s “I did it for Science.”