Millions of US college students are turning to 'Sugar Daddies' for help

[Keit]

The following news item is particularly interesting, considering the recent pro-liberal craziness in the US. What sexual exploitation problem, when you have a huge debt that you have to cover somehow?

Millions of college students are so terrified of loans they're turning to 'Sugar Daddies' for help paying for school

http://www.businessinsider.com/seeking-arrangement-sugar-daddies-pay-sugar-babies-college-tuition-2017-11

The student debt crisis in the US has gotten so bad, there's a growing group of young women — and some men — who are taking an unconventional approach to paying for college.

Through dating websites like SeekingArrangement.com, Sugar Babies, as they're called, partner up with wealthy, often older, men who want to spend money on them.

Some 2.5 million Sugar Babies identified as students in 2016 on SeekingArrangement.com. Many of these Sugar Babies turned to the site to find someone who will pay for their education so they can graduate debt, and worry, free.

In exchange, Sugar Babies go to dinners, attend events, or accompany their Sugar Daddy, or daddies, on trips. In some cases, they provide companionship or foster a mentor-mentee relationship. In other situations, the terms of the agreement include physical intimacy.

 

[Beau]

SOTT covered it back in 2015: https://www.sott.net/article/305840-Sugar-babies-Female-college-students-are-literally-selling-themselves-to-cover-rising-tuition-costs

The site has apparently been around for almost 10 years, but it's certainly been in the news more lately because of the rise in its membership. That's likely due to the economic situation in the US, rising tuition costs and because many young women have grown up in a world where sex with someone you barely know is not that unusual.

 

[Anamarija]

In this video couple explains what they benefit from this kind of arrangment:

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[Lorea]

There is an incredible confusion in the spirit of these young people, the very example of ignorant and unaware people. :(