Elliot Spitzer's "Kristen" has been revealed: her name is Ashley Alexandra Dupre. To be fair, she's pretty amazingly attractive, maybe not $4,300 per hour hot, but when you've got enough money, it sort of ceases to make a difference I suppose.
For an "aspiring singer" who happens to have an extremely lucrative part time job, being outed couldn't be better. Talk about exposure. Her pictures are all over the internet, including an article with the New York Times. Her parents aren't thrilled I'm sure but her agent is crying all the way to the bank. Apparently, her online single has become incredibly popular.
So she wound up with $10,000 and instant celebrity status. Nice work if you can get it.
On a serious note, while I think we need to come up with a way to ensure sex workers are safer and healthier, and legalizing prostitution might be a way to do this, there are some serious down sides to taking that tack. See Kristoff's op ed here. I find it odd that in this day and age a man or woman can voluntarily have sex with a person of their choosing for any reason EXCEPT in exchange for money. Then it's a crime. [EDIT: The exception to the exception is, of course, if a third party pays for and films the sex act, then it's a free speech expression of a message of sexuality. Got it?] But there are real and serious issues with exploitation, human trafficing, etc, that need to be dealt with realisticly.
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