Wanted: Sugar Daddy to help pay for College.
August 9, 2011 7:21 AM   Subscribe

College students deeply in debt are looking to make ends meet by hooking up with wealthy older men. Saddled with piles of student debt and a job-scarce, lackluster economy, current college students and recent graduates are selling themselves to pursue a diploma or pay down their loans. An increasing number, according to the the owners of websites that broker such hook-ups, have taken to the web in search of online suitors or wealthy benefactors who, in exchange for sex, companionship, or both, might help with the bills.
posted by Kokopuff (13 comments total)

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No way, women are looking for other people to pay their bills? Well I never.

What a cataclysmic change in human culture!
posted by thylacine at 7:25 AM on August 9, 2011


Double.
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 7:26 AM on August 9, 2011


It's interesting, because before this recession, women had essentially no interest in wealthy men.
posted by planet at 7:27 AM on August 9, 2011 [3 favorites]


This is moronic, even for a fluff faux-trend piece. Bad post.
posted by clockzero at 7:28 AM on August 9, 2011


This is like one of those NYT style section articles which takes a fairly old and fairly niche phenomenon and pretends that it's some kind of fad, right?

On preview: Gah, it was in NYT Magazine, not the style section!
posted by muddgirl at 7:28 AM on August 9, 2011


No way, women people are looking for other people to pay their bills? Well I never.

Hah hah, misogyny much?

I await the red flash of double doom.
posted by killdevil at 7:28 AM on August 9, 2011


I ain't sayin she's a gold digga...
posted by Threeway Handshake at 7:30 AM on August 9, 2011


thylacine: "No way, women are looking for other people to pay their bills? Well I never."

Casual misogyny. How great.

What a cataclysmic change in human culture!

It's not, and the article quite clearly acknowledges that it's not. What makes this situation different is that the women are able to set up trysts in a relatively safe manner, anonymously using the internet.

Which allows at least one of them to earn enough money to pay for their college education.
Enter the sugar daddy, sugar baby phenomenon. This particular dynamic preceded the economic meltdown, of course. Rich guys well past their prime have been plunking down money for thousands of years in search of a tryst or something more with women half their age -- and women, willingly or not, have made themselves available. With the whole process going digital, women passing through a system of higher education that fosters indebtedness are using the anonymity of the web to sell their wares and pay down their college loans.

posted by zarq at 7:31 AM on August 9, 2011


Someone recently told me about a site where youngish men can go to find older men who will buy them clothes, they then send back a picture wearing whatever the guy bought them. Of course there are also supposedly feeder sites, where you can buy someone a cake, or a gallon of ice cream, and they will send you a video of them eating it. If you can imagine it, someone will pay you to do it.
posted by Ad hominem at 7:32 AM on August 9, 2011


Bad post.

I imagine that being said after rapping the browser pane over the nose with a rolled up newspaper.
posted by condour75 at 7:33 AM on August 9, 2011 [3 favorites]


I have nothing to add, except that we need some kind of "is it a link to Huffpo?" betting poll. I would have so much money right now.
posted by selfnoise at 7:33 AM on August 9, 2011 [1 favorite]


t:"No way, women are looking for other people to pay their bills? Well I never."

z:Casual misogyny. How great.

t:What a cataclysmic change in human culture!

z:It's not, and the article quite clearly acknowledges that it's not.


Okay, accuse Thylacine of misogyny, I don't particularly care. But then you go on to agree with him.

But the worst has nothing to do with you guys; it's reading this story yet again, with no evidence presented for its prevalence yet again.
posted by grobstein at 7:35 AM on August 9, 2011


If you can imagine it, someone will pay you to do it.

How about writing a kind of Not Great Genre novel?
posted by From Bklyn at 7:35 AM on August 9, 2011


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