Martha’s Story: The Terrors of Childhood

Childhood can be a nightmare. It is an act of grace that many of us fare as well as we do considering our family history. We may feel that we were born into the wrong family. Had we been born into the family next door, things might have gone more smoothly. We cannot wish our [...]

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Spitzer Sex Scandal: Week 2

Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the 22-year-old call girl at the center of Eliot Spitzer’s sex scandal, had a troubled childhood marred by her parents’ divorce. Ashley “used to cry and say how much she missed [her dad],” a childhood friend told People magazine. The picture of her early childhood portrayed by the gossip magazine is the [...]

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Ashley’s Brother Was Heroin Dealer

Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the striking 22-year-old call girl at the center of ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s sex scandal, spoke of a dysfunctional family on her MySpace page. Well, some of her claims appear to be true. The day the Spitzer scandal broke, Ashley’s older brother, Kyle Youmans, pled guilty to dealing heroin, according to the Asbury [...]

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Offers Pour in for Call Girl Ashley

Thanks to the media’s (and society’s!) ravenous appetite for hot young thangs, 22-year-old prostitute Ashley Alexandra Dupré may soon be able to cash in on her notoriety. The aspiring singer’s track What We Want was played on Z-1oo yesterday (the most widely listened to radio station in the US), and she has already been approached [...]

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Smackdown: Career Moms vs. Stay-at-Home Moms

These days, women define themselves as much through their personal “success” (e.g., having a good relationship or raising happy children) as their professional achievements. But rather than uniting women, these increasing roles have divided them into warring factions. A good example is the chasm between working moms and stay-at-home moms. But who’s winning the mommy [...]

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Cougars: Connecting Without a Connection

Did anyone really think the sexual revolution was over? Here we are in the new millennium, and sex is just as hot and heavy as it was in the 1960s. With the advent of the female cougar, the revolution has merely changed its form. We’ve had the hippies, the swingers, the swappers, “the cared-for” other [...]

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Eliot Spitzer’s Call Girl: ‘I Was an Abused Child’

The infamous Kristen, a favorite call girl of ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer, left a broken home in New Jersey at age 17 and came to NYC with dreams of making it as a blues singer, according to the NYTimes. Ashley Alexandra Dupré (born Ashley Youmans) is 22 years old and rents an apartment in downtown Manhattan. [...]

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Stunning Fall from Grace

NY State Gov. Eliot Spitzer has resigned this morning, 2 days after news broke of his longtime involvement in soliciting high-priced call girls. “The remorse I feel will always be with me,” Spitzer said during a press conference in Manhattan. Spitzer, 48, reportedly spent as much as $80,000 over the past decade as a client [...]

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NYC’s Colorful Prostitution Past (& Present)

New York is called the Big Apple, but what does that really mean? According to one authoritative source, it’s a reference to New York’s brothels. It seems during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a flood of French nobility landed here to escape the throes of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Without [...]

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Madonna in Rock Hall of Fame Controversy

Despite her long career, Madonna has never been a fave of music critics. She transformed music in the ’80s, and was able to reinvent herself and race to the head of each new trend. But many critics saw that as crass commercialism and called her out for her mediocre voice. Now the debate has spilled [...]

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