Will Hooker’s Next John Be America?

As Ashley Dupre waits for the dust to settle from her paid sexual liason with ex-NY Governor Eliot Spitzer via the Emperor’s Club, there’s only one question: How much will America pay her?

By ALEXANDER

Some guess that Ashley Dupre made $100,000 a month selling her body to high-paying clientele, including the now-resigned governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer.

Reports include that her going rate was $1,000-per-hour.

However, that’s chump change compared to what’s being offered her now and probably in the near future as the result of her part in bringing down Spitzer and the pimping Emperor’s Club.

Porn publishers at Penthouse magazine say they would “love to have her in the magazine” and would consider offering her a cover shot. Before Dupre’s MySpace page was deleted Thursday, it had received 4,612,397 views and her song “What We Want” touted 711,334 plays, according to Reuters. Fox News reports that a million people have paid as much as $.98 apiece to download her song.

My question to America: Is the marketing and consumption of all-things Dupre “what we want?”

Leading media research analyst Neilsen//NetRatings, which tracks Internet traffic and trends reported a few years ago that more than 38 million people visited adult websites that year. America’s obsession with sex is evidenced everywhere, including the proliferation of sexual performance enhancing drugs.

Will America be hooked on Dupre…and will she oblige?

It used to be, more often than now, that if someone was caught in sin, they would likely go into hiding for awhile…maybe even take time to repent and heal. That’s very rare these days. Now, sin sells. It’s no longer “I feel terrible. I need to get my life in order.” It’s “Find me at MySpace. My dirt is real good. Let me sell it to you.”

The news in the U.S. these past several days reminded me again (as it does so many times these days) of Sodom and Gomorrah.

In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. - Jude 1:7 NIV

I can not prophesize about the future of America. Yes, sex sells…it always has. It’s the nation’s growing addiction to sex that concerns me. As for Dupre, it would be great if she did the right thing…that would be to not sell herself, not feed America’s appetite for slime, and simply look for a life with a better purpose.

Alexander is the editor of The Scrooge Report, with the goal of “Eyeing the World With a Bright Light.” Alexander’s other site is dedicated to The Word.