The following is an editorial. It is not meant to be an attack on anyone or on a lifestyle. It is meant to simply draw attention to a possible problem in our society and to make people think.

The Legacy of Paris Hilton

In today’s society people have a chance to be known by more of their fellow human being then probably ever before. People like Paris Hilton for example.

Paris is known for her appearances on TV’s “The Simple Life”, movies such as “House of Wax” and the fact that she is the heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune. But Paris became a ‘house hold name’ for something that most people would not have wanted a few years ago.

She leaped to public sight because of a video escapade of herself and some guy having sex in a hotel and having it broadcast on the Internet. That was the debut and screen test for Paris Hilton.

Now, there is nothing wrong with this if you are an adult and don’t care if you are seen by billions of people while you are getting laid. And I would say it accomplished what it was probably supposed to do, it brought her into the spotlight of society.

Now, millions of women every year appear on the Internet doing amateur, professional, and unintentional pornography. They appear with men, other women, toys, animals, fetish shots, groups and most of these women are never able to “make the big time” and go on to a network television show or a major motion picture.
So why did it happen for Paris? Because she is the heiress to a multi-billion dollar Hotel chain, for gods sake. If Paris had just been another blond who got caught on video no one would have cared after the first week or so, but because her last name is Hilton she has parlayed that incident into a ‘legacy’ where she now wants to act, open her own chain of hotels, design clothes and fragrances, write books and still be paid to attend a party.

Yes, according to reports if you want to invite Paris Hilton to a party for half an hour it will cost you close to $250,000. For that kind of money, I expect a circus with dancing bears and lots of penguins.

What has Paris’ desire for a ‘legacy’ taught women?

That prostituting yourself out can make you well known. That is all. How many women think that porn is a good way to make money? How many kids think that sex is a simple way to get out of a life that they hate and go on to ‘the big time’?

Look around the web at the various sites with the “Girl next door” who wants to star in movies so she does Internet porn as a stepping-stone to success. Then count the number of women who actually have gone on to real stardom from that venture.

There are young women who look at other women like Hilton and believe that they too can be world famous just by appearing in situations that most people avoid being seen in by others. They prostitute themselves out, selling their bodies like meat in a cheap market never thinking about their future outside of their dream of success.

They don’t think of their children or their grandchildren seeing these images. But they probably will. How will they react when their daughter asks why they did a video with 25 men?

How will they feel when their children are ashamed to go to school because of what their mother did?

What is sad is that so many young women today are being fooling into thinking that sex is just something you do when you are bored. Our society is being fooled into believing that the ‘next time will be the best’ without regard for how it actually affects our mindset or attitudes about relationships.

What is sad is that Paris Hilton could have been such a positive influence on young women in the world. She could have used her name and heritage to show that education was important, that building on a name one could expand their lives to do good for others around the world.

Instead, she spread her thighs and spread the idea that once more a woman has to use her body to be a success.

That is the ‘legacy’ Paris Hilton is leaving young women today. In her own way, she leads an army down a road of destruction that many won’t be able to turn from.

Which is truly sad when you realize just how much she could have done had she just tried.