This sounds like one of those classics of news hackery where anecdotes become the truth.
Here's the original, by the way. I haven't read it, and don't intend to. New York is not a very good magazine.
The article above makes much more sense within the context of the original article you referenced. Not believing that people could actually do this to themselves and hoping that the person described in the article was the merely a writer's fabrication, I did a web search on some of the phrases. Sadly, I was wrong. The "personal ad" for the morally brain dead tramp the article is based on can be found
here. If the rest of this article is accurate, I would think that all the professional whores in New York would go out of business with so many amateurs like this throwing themselves away for free.