So this morning the NY times had coverage of the Spitzer scandal, and also had a little article about the expensive prostitute he got busted with who was using the pseudonym Dupre, with an accent aigu over the e.
In the first place, I'm awesome because when "Dupre" came up the first thing that came to mind was Ultima.
Secondly, I've heard some people complain that in spite of the enormous price tag, they didn't think that Dupre was very pretty. But these are my thoughts on Dupre.
Dupre wanted or wants to be a musician. Supposedly she's got some music and stuff she did on her Myspace. Musicians often, in my experience, have very flamboyant and quirky personalities. In my opinion Dupre probably had an amazingly attractive personality and that's why someone like Spitzer was willing to pay thousands of dollars an hour to spend time with her.
Back when I was in college, I knew a young female, an aspiring musician, who had one of the most attractive personalities I've ever encountered. This female in question was vivacious, playful, imaginative, and often somewhat sexually coy. She could be very physically playful, in that she might tackle a friend Hobbes-style as a joke, which a lot of times females aren't. What's more, she liked RPGs. I remember she played Ultima Online sometimes and she also played in a Shadowrun 3rd edition game I GMed.
The flip side to this scintilating personality was that at times she could get very moody, which again in my experience is pretty typical for people who are extremely upbeat; oftentimes they alternate between highs and lows rather than staying closer to a moderate middle level like most people do. I knew some males who were at different times romantically involved with her and due to their position they needed to deal with her lows as well as her highs.
What I'd realized after I left college was how much I missed this female. I used to dream about her and I realized that while there are other people who might be very vivacious probably most of them wouldn't be exactly like her. I realized that I surely should have spent more time with her while I'd still had the ability to do so and for a long while afterwards I felt kind of sad and strange inside as I considered this. Anyway, this was many years ago and now I'm over it, but my point is that because of this individual's personality she was extremely charismatic and the great extent to which she was charismatic never fully dawned on me until it got to the point where I'd never see her again.
I believe that perhaps "Dupre" in a similar way, seeing as she's musically inclined and has the chutzpah to become a high class prostitute, has possibly got an incredibly strong magnetism or attraction in terms of her personality. At least, that would explain why someone like Spitzer would spend thousands of dollars and risk so much just to spend a few hours with her. If I think about my old friend from college I can certainly see a wealthy person spending that kind of money. If you're wealthy you have plenty of money but it's not easy to find someone like I described.
Those are my thoughts. Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe I'm just secretly a romantic at heart.