I agree.
When I lived in NYC my boyfriend worked as a ouncer at Stringfellows (stripjoint).
I used to pick him up every morning (yeah, just in case
...)and got to know some of the girls working there.
Some were skank, some were druggies, some were looking for Mr Goodbar and some were putting themselves through school. Two went to NYU, one was putting her little brother through law school (he dropped her off and picked her up every morning). Real decent people.
We all do what we have to, I would never hold a persons past against them as long as what they did didn't harm another humanbeing or animal.
It's not the past that matters, it's the present and future.