At first, I thought this email was to inform me that it’s terrible more female university students are joining websites to connect with sugar daddies—men, usually way older who may or may not be married, who’ll pay for your stuff in exchange for your “company”—but then I kept reading, and realized the email was more of a “GOOD NEWS! Here’s a great option to pay for school and get rid of debt!”
The email was sent to me by a representative from the site seekingarrangement.com. She said that with Arizona’s unemployment rate being higher than the national average, how the hell else are students, particularly women, going to get by while getting a higher education or applying for jobs?
From the email:
To combat the cost of college and for networking opportunities, many Arizona college students are turning to the Sugar lifestyle. The number of students joining the world’s largest Sugar Daddy dating site, SeekingArrangement.com grew by 42 percent overall. At ASU, that number grew 55.43 percent in 2014, with 403 new sign-ups. At the University of Arizona, it grew by 32.35 percent, with 99 new sign-ups.
Today, SeekingArrangement releases its annual ranking of the Fastest Growing Sugar Baby Schools. ASU ranks second out of 50 schools, while the University of Arizona comes in at number 28.
ASU ranking so high doesn’t surprise me, because they are like totally on the Playboy list of like best party schools evurrrr.
Anyway, no, Seeking Arrangement spokesperson, I am not going to say nice things about your site, which only fuels the stereotype that women can’t get by unless they have a rich man on their side and DEFINITELY promotes the idea that we can be degraded as long as you gives us a big, fat check at the end of it all. Yes, unemployment is high still and salaries low, and most of us had to get loans to go to school because our father isn’t Donald Trump or Gov. Doug Ducey, so stop with the bullshit that, unless you have a sugar daddy, there is no way in hell you’ll survive in this world during and post college.
There are plenty of hard-working people who are still struggling but stay away from the type of activities the site promotes.
From the email:
Fifty-five percent of college students in Arizona graduate with student loan debt. The allure of this lifestyle is deeply rooted in financial gain, as the average Sugar Baby receives $3,000 in monthly allowances.
Do what you please, but that website up there is just sad.
This article appears in Jan 29 – Feb 4, 2015.
100% of college dropouts leave early with debt that they usually default on. Maybe there is more college than the country can afford.
At least call it what it is: prostitution.
I think it’s closer to indentured servitude or paid sex slavery than prostitution, but it’s just plain creepy no matter what.
Agreed on the icky gender stereotypes, but I would just say that sex between consenting adults does not automatically entail “degradation” (as this post implies), even when there’s money exchanged. If it’s degrading (and yes, it often is when entitled male privilege is involved), then you’re not doing it right and you should stop. (Unless of course degradation is your kink, but that’s a whole ‘nuther issue….)
“entitled male privilege” WTF? If you don’t want to partake, don’t. It seems like yours is not the only opinion. And if these women want to earn an honest living by acting out these “icky gender stereotypes” that seems to me to be noyfb.
How about some attention on women who are going to trade school then paying their own way through college? My hairdresser graduated from beauty school, got a job, just completed 2 years at Pima College and will be transferring to Eller in the fall. She will turn 21 in April. Impressive and a sterling example for owning your own life.
Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go anywhere they want.
Amusing to see a TD’s Showclub ad accompanying a story that decries the sexualization of women for money.
Lonely men who were probably thrown in the trash by hypergamous women who didn’t have the decency to be honest before taking their money? You would rather see them commit suicide like the scores of other men exploited by women, I suppose. At least these women don’t pretend to love men to get their money.
Your jealousy is not a gender issue. Male sexuality and need for intimacy is not the comic book big-eyed wolf character your bigoted indoctrination taught you it was. Mind your own business, please and thank you.
Most of these men were either ruined by divorce or are single because they did not have enough money to meet the standards of young women when they were younger, and now older, alone, usually childless, they get the chance for human contact and intimacy, and you just demonize them. Many of these men don’t even have sexual relations with the girls, but of course that doesn’t compute when your notion of men is a cartoon villain, because you have zero empathy for anyone who doesn’t have the same chromosomes.
It’s not their fault women threw men like them away while “trading-up” in your 20s.
Also quit slut-shaming the women who decide to be with them. Those women are human beings, too, making their own decision, or did they lose your empathy too once they stopped treated men like the enemy.
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Love the fake outrage by some of the commenters. It is what it is. A mutually beneficial financial arrangement.
WTF