A desperate 18-year-old Ukrainian student is offering to sell her virginity to a 'real man' in a local newspaper because she urgently needs £1,500.

Axar.az reports citing Daily Mail that, the teenager named Yulia told the paper in Melitopol, south east Ukraine: 'Sooner or later I will have to say goodbye to it. So it is better to do it this way than at some drunken party.'

Her advertisement headed 'Virginity for Sale' appears alongside notices seeking buyers for alarm clocks, antiques, and businesses.

Candidates were told to call her on Skype.

A picture purporting to show a glimpse of Yulia is included in the advertisement.

She told journalists she would submit to a medical examination at a local hospital nominated by her 'sponsor' to prove she was still a virgin.

She explained that she had had boyfriends but kept her virginity.

'There will be no competition,' she said. I will say yes to the first real man.'

However, the first responses to her advertisement were not 'serious', she said.

She had a plan to guard against her suitor being 'a maniac or other unsuitable person', she said.

A male friend would accompany her to collect the money, seeing the man.

If Yulia did not call him in one hour after the payment was made, he would call the police.

She said she needed the money urgently for an important reason but declined to say what it was. This is private,' she said.

The newspaper Torbinka said it was the first time they had carried an advertisement selling virginity.