Ashley Alexandra Dupre: The sob story of prostitution

Well, they identified the call girl that brought down Governor Spitzer of New York. And while I generally read The New York Times, I have to admit they went overboard trying to make Ashley Alexandra Dupre (Kristen) the "victim" in this situation. She was a "$1000 an hour" hooker (in an establishment where they apparently have hookers working up to $4,300 an hour (I guess they wear party hats...I wouldn't know; I don't get out often). Now, they've tried to "humanize" her so that people will feel sorry for her because this big bad scandal has happened to her and it has interrupted her normal plan to bring peace to stuffed koala bears everywhere, or whatever it is she was planning with her myspace music career that will probably benefit from this rather than be hurt.

It's this sort of thing that leaves one wondering, why is it so necessary to give us the sob story of the poor little girl who is down on her luck (charging $4300 to have sex with a governor and knowing full well exactly what she was doing). And why should we really care?

Yeah, it bothers me that yet another girl got herself into this lifestyle. I used to see this CONSTANTLY at San Francisco State University when girls I knew would study feminist theory, convinced they were going to change the attitudes of men around the world, and then you'd find out they were paying their way through school by stripping at Mitchell Brothers in San Francisco or at one of the many other "fine" establishments that involve young, attractive women sitting on the laps of total strangers and getting them off. During one year, I discovered that of my female friends at SFSU, three were strippers at local sex clubs, two were professional dominatrices, one was a professional sex submissive, and two were straight out prostitutes (they preferred "call girls", which made them sound more respectable). Twice, I was called as their "one phone call" in the same week.

Kind of makes you wonder. Well, at least it makes me wonder.

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