Ashley Dupré Is Not Your Average ProstituteLost in the coverage
of Ashley Dupré's interviews with Diane Sawyer and People
magazine are a couple of small, likely hard-won tidbits of
personal insight that Dupré probably gained from the therapy she
is now in. First, that she ran away from home at 17 in mass of
anger, confusion and self-destructiveness that included drugs
and alcohol, which eventually led her to Florida and her stint
with Girls Gone Wild and then to her sexual assault. She says,
according to the New York Post, "It caused me to disconnect —
with sex, with real relationships."Dupré may have chosen sex
work, and might say that it's similar to hooking up with a date,
but the self-described "normal girl" identifies the roots of her
choices in her drug and alcohol abuse and her sexual assault.
And according to the UK government, it's not an uncommon start
to life as a sex worker. This week, UK Home Secretary Jacqui
Smith announced a package of reforms to Britain's prostitution
law that doesn't criminal