Business Insider just ran a successful promotional story covering the phenomenal surge in young millennial women seeking older rich men for mutually beneficial arrangements.
Despite their favorable, non-objective, reporting on this surging phenomenon, I found the whole subject matter to be oddly alarming.
Let’s take a look,
They start off the conversation by presenting the idea that sugar babies need to do this in order to afford college tuition.
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.
Let’s make one thing clear, at least 90% of these young ladies (and that number is likely much higher…) are providing their daddies with some sort of sexual favors or photos. Yes, they do provide companionship as well. But, the physical aspect is a fundamental component of the arrangement. All the talk otherwise is nothing more than a marketing attempt to make the sugar babies feel more respectable about how they’re forging their extra spending money.
One can’t help but have a sinking feeling that these arrangements might not be all they’re cracked up to be in this rather glowing Business Insider report.
Let’s take a closer look on the next page:
Seems like some girls like the word