Thursday, November 20, 2008

Unintentional Insight

Every now and then someone says something which unintentionally offers insight into a deeper issue. This time it was Ashley Dupre (Former NY gov. Eliot Spitzer's former callgirl (does that make sense)).

Anyway, she gave an interview to People magazine in which she (of course) asserts "I'm just a normal girl" yada, yada, yada. Then this unintentional insight:

In the interview, Dupré also opens up about her troubled past — running away at age 17 into a non-stop life of drinking and partying and how a girl from the suburbs could fathom becoming a prostitute: "This wasn't any different than going on a date with someone you barely knew and hooking up with them," she reasoned. "The only difference is I can pay my rent."

Hmmm . . . profound. Any promiscuous people care to explain the difference? When a culture cheapens sex, as ours has, to a harmless recreational activity, what is the harm in getting paid for it? Cruise directors get paid. Personal trainers get paid. Vacation planners get paid. Recreation is big businesss.

Yet people still seem to draw a line between 'sleeping with someone you'll never see again' and 'sleeping with someone you'll never see again . . . who gives you $100' and they declare the former normal and natural, and the latter contemptable.

Not seeing the difference myself . . . except, as Ashley said - one can pay the rent.

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