# Why does Paris Hilton have a slut reputation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668 "2009-10-13T16:41:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/61 "2009-10-14T19:16:46Z")
Wait- people still care about Paris Hilton? Wasn’t the sex tape thing about five years ago? I thought she had drifted off the radar a long time ago, only to be replaced by Jon & Kate and their over-exposed kids. Seriously- I can’t remember the last time I heard her name mentioned outside of this thread. However, my impression of her from a few years back wasn’t that she was a slut, but that she was a moderately attractive party girl who thought more highly of herself than was really justified; a publicity whore golddigger who orchestrated the release of the tape to bring more attention to herself; and a spoiled brat. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/62 "2009-10-14T19:26:03Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Jealousy. Sorry to put down the glorious American public this way, but let’s get real. People hate her because she was rich without “deserving” it, she was getting a television show, and she was unearthly gorgeous in that “you can’t be too rich or too thin” way. Seriously? “Unearthly gorgeous”? I look at her and I see a fairly average looking person who has had the labor of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of clothing stylists, makeup artists, hairstylists and other beauty professionals and I think “this is the best they can do?” Any mall, any day in any city in America you will find far more attractive women. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/63 "2009-10-14T21:07:07Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Wait- people still care about Paris Hilton? Wasn’t the sex tape thing about five years ago? I thought she had drifted off the radar a long time ago, only to be replaced by Jon & Kate and their over-exposed kids. You’re more or less right. She pops up with a cameo in some stupid movie or another every few months and that is about the extent of her current “fame.” Her next big cameo is a one or two episode stint on Supernatural as a demon who takes the form of Paris Hilton. It’s apparently a big deal in the TV news world (TV journalists, making video game journalists look intelligent since 1996). ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/64 "2009-10-14T21:20:05Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Seriously? “Unearthly gorgeous”? I look at her and I see a fairly average looking person who has had the labor of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of clothing stylists, makeup artists, hairstylists and other beauty professionals and I think “this is the best they can do?” Any mall, any day in any city in America you will find far more attractive women. This is true, except I would replace the word “fairly” with “below.” ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/65 "2009-10-14T21:59:07Z")
She made the news today because of her new pet [http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/10/paris\_hilton.php](http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/10/paris_hilton.php) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/66 "2009-10-14T22:22:58Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > Uh Huh… She makes her money as a VLSS (Vaginal Life Support System) which is pretty much the walking definition of a slut. I wouldn’t let her fuck my dog. Jealous? I’m going with “OH HELL NO” on this underwear impaired [del]twit[/del] twat. :rolleyes: Why do you say this? What does it even mean? How do you know exactly - or even approximately - who she has sex with and how much? How do you know the way her sex life compares with all girls her age or all celebrities or all heiresses? What are you basing these comments on in any way whatsoever? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/67 "2009-10-15T01:41:53Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Why do you say this? What does it even mean? How do you know exactly - or even approximately - who she has sex with and how much? How do you know the way her sex life compares with all girls her age or all celebrities or all heiresses? What are you basing these comments on in any way whatsoever? What am I basing my opinion on a drunken underwear challanged person who made a sex tape at age 19? Let me think about that for a second. Nope, still going with slut. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/68 "2009-10-15T01:49:37Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Im sure most guys would bang her, but celebrities are held to a much higher standard. ??? I disagree. I think celebrities are held to a lower standard. Maybe “held” is the wrong word. “Expected” might be closer. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/69 "2009-10-15T02:08:43Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > ??? I disagree. I think celebrities are held to a lower standard. Maybe “held” is the wrong word. “Expected” might be closer. I meant if she was “random girl at a club” she’d be quite hot, but for a celebrity shes barely average. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/70 "2009-10-15T02:13:37Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > What am I basing my opinion on a drunken underwear challanged person who made a sex tape at age 19? Let me think about that for a second. Nope, still going with slut. Now we’re getting somewhere. Every young woman who allows her boyfriend to tape them during sex is a slut. That’s at least a definition. How many other people want to run with this and apply it uniformly? And how many Doper woman are now officially sluts? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/71 "2009-10-15T02:19:22Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Now we’re getting somewhere. Every young woman who allows her boyfriend to tape them during sex is a slut. That’s at least a definition. > > How many other people want to run with this and apply it uniformly? And how many Doper woman are now officially sluts? Make sure to include public crotch shots with your posts. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/72 "2009-10-15T04:38:53Z")
I’m surprised that **Magiver** is the first to bring up the various and sundry pictures of her sans panties. It’s not that she doesn’t wear panties, it’s that she is repeatedly photoed with her bare crotch hanging out. Waving your cooch around in front of photographers tends to get you a reputation. **Exapno Mapcase** said: > [@](#): > > The sex tape was a home recording of her at 19 that was released four years later. Everyone immediately leaped to the assumption that she put it out for publicity. There’s never been the slightest proof of that to this day, It is circumstantial, but her sex tape managed to be revealed just in time to stir up attention for her right before her TV show began airing. The first season might have been filmed by then, but it wasn’t on the air. That screams “publicity move”. Whereas if it were a guy trying to cash in, it would make more sense to come out _after_ her show was on and had made her name more familiar. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/73 "2009-10-15T04:44:24Z")
Her popularity (or public profile, as it were) were peaking about that time, so it was the prime time for her scuzzbug ex-boyfriend to get top dollar for selling it. As I recall, Paris was highly embarrassed about its release, for both family and public reasons. Still, her parents and fans stood by her and she weathered the ensuring storm and embarrassment about as well as she could, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/74 "2009-10-23T01:39:45Z")
A profile of her a few years ago in Vanity Fair magazine which is noted for kid gloving popular celebrities described her noted reputation among the young, rich and beautiful night club crawlers as “an epic slut”. To earn that rep in \*that \*crowd takes some hard sluttin’. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/75 "2009-10-23T02:01:35Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Jealousy. Sorry to put down the glorious American public this way, but let’s get real. People hate her because she was rich without “deserving” it, she was getting a television show, and she was unearthly gorgeous in that “you can’t be too rich or too thin” way. > > It’s funny watching people hate on Paris, in the same way that it’s funny reading what birthers say. Both jokes can turn sour pretty quickly, though, when you think of what must be behind them. “Unearthly gorgeous?” There are no words. :rolleyes: Jealous? I don’t see NEARLY the hate for [Ivanka Trump](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanka_Trump), Donald’s daughter. Hmmm…I wonder why. Perhaps it’s because Ivanka isn’t, as far as I know, a walking cocktail of STDs, nor is she dumber than a bag of hair. Please. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/76 "2009-10-23T05:41:35Z")
The herpes don’t help. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/77 "2009-10-23T18:19:50Z")
> [@astro](#): > > A profile of her a few years ago in Vanity Fair magazine which is noted for kid gloving popular celebrities described her noted reputation among the young, rich and beautiful night club crawlers as “an epic slut”. To earn that rep in \*that \*crowd takes some **hard sluttin’**. New porno series name! ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/78 "2009-10-23T18:57:11Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I wouldn’t f&ck Paris Hilton with Perez Hilton’s d!ck, amusing as that would be. I have to say, _that_ tape would sell. High intensity shadenfreude for most viewers, because you know neither one would be enjoying themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/79 "2009-10-24T02:47:30Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > I have to say, _that_ tape would sell. High intensity shadenfreude for most viewers, because you know neither one would be enjoying themselves. That’s another point – she’s responsible for the rise of Perez. (God, I hate that moron) ---
**Author:** ![paddybearuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4da419/32.png) [@paddybearuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paddybearuk)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668/80 "2014-07-23T08:02:44Z")
Of course Paris Hilton is not a whore! Whores get paid for opening their legs to every passing penis! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-paris-hilton-have-a-slut-reputation/513668.md?page=5)