THE ISSUE: Ex-prostitute Ashley Dupre’s blog post defending herself to the media.
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While it’s true that most women desire to be pampered as well as to be presented with nice gifts, most don’t have to resort to compromising their values via prostitution (” ‘Get Real . . . You’re Just Like Me’,” Sept. 3).
Ashley Dupre, you’re a better person than you think. You have a life — use it for good and to help others.
Jeffrey Gray
Aberdeen, NJ
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Please stop quoting and featuring pictures of Dupre. I am appalled at the recent attention you have given her, especially her full-page blog post.
Dupre is unsophisticated, uneducated and very dull. Her column made me feel like an idiot for reading it.
If I didn’t have a subscription to The Post, I would never purchase it or any newspaper that featured her.
Jeanne Gordon
Manhattan
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We must live in different New York Cities.
The NYC women I know, and I count myself as typical, are educated, hardworking and self-sufficient.
We can spend our own earnings however we choose or, heaven forbid, decide to forgo absurdly expensive shoes and fashionable designer clothes and save and invest for our futures.
We also choose our partners based on love and compatibility, not his or her ability to support shopping sprees.
Dupre, come and visit this New York City. Having integrity is nothing to be ashamed of.
Nicole Francis
Brooklyn
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Dupre’s words about the hypocrisy of the women who judge her ring true with me.
One day, I was rudely awakened from my romantic delusions when my fiancée left me for a man with more money after repeatedly complaining about my lack of it and joking that “you might as well marry a rich man as a poor man.”
Of course, afterward she wouldn’t admit that money had anything to do with it or that her cheating with another man with more money had anything to do with the problems in our relationship.
No, she looks down on me and on people like Dupre.
Jerry Jones
Manhattan
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A prostitute does not pretend to be in love with an unappealing man to get his money, something for which women are notorious.
Young women who pretend that their 70-year-old (rich) husbands are the sexiest men alive are the disgrace, not the marketing of a talent.
To paraphrase the great Rodney Dangerfield: “I never saw an old, bald, fat, poor man marry a pretty girl.”
David Bergstein
Manhattan