Some ads generally never have a telephone number. Perhaps an e-mail address, but often one of those addresses you can tell they just invented by slapping the keyboard with their hand.

That is usually the case for the ads placed by girls trying to sell their virginity. And there are a lot of them.

Kiska is offering hers for $9,000. She sounds like an optimist, not because of the price but for the fact that she adds "no perverts" at the end of the ad. Girls often ask for "decent" men, too.

There are also adverts from the other side. Andrei wants to buy the virginity of a pretty girl. "Decency and good pay guaranteed. ... You won't regret it."

Last month, a tabloid told the tale of a girl in Siberia who sold her virginity for $10,000. Around 300 men wrote in and Svetlana B -- tabloids like to avoid details in case you find their story and prove it untrue -- sold it to Ruslan, the highest bidder. She needed the money, she said, so that she could study at a theater institute in Moscow.

Another tabloid reported last week that a girl sold her virginity for 100,000 rubles ($4,100) the first time. She didn't say how much she got for the second, third or fourth times.

A female reporter from Komsomolskaya Pravda put her own advert up, saying she was 18, and got 80 e-mails.

As no one bit at $20,000 she reduced her price to 50,000 rubles and met up with two of the men who replied. She wasn't impressed, despite the old Porsche one of them turned up in, and summarized her virgin-hunters as unsuccessful men in their mid-30s, married with kids, mid-level workers in large companies, quiet, unaggressive and easily offended.

In feudal times, the local lord would have the right to take the virginity of the local lass, the paper wrote. These men want to become feudal lords but presumably without the early death, venereal diseases and obese gluttony.

It's not often that Komsomolskaya Pravda editorials sound like the voice of reason. It lost my faith when it kept the title of "The View From The Sixth Floor," even though it is now on a different floor, but this time it had a point.

"It's fashionable for us to talk about a national idea," they wrote, "or the return of the monarchy. ... Maybe we can try for something simpler. For example, how about that not everything can be sold."