{"id":30496,"date":"2015-03-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30496"},"modified":"2015-03-02T07:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:25:03","slug":"sugar-baby-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/03\/sugar-baby-u\/","title":{"rendered":"“Sugar Baby U”"},"content":{"rendered":"

With US university tuition on its never-ending rise, some students are taking a rather different approach to funding their education … but everyone assures us that it isn’t actually<\/a> prostitution:<\/p>\n

The average student-loan debt is approaching $30,000. That is to say, of the 70 percent of college students who borrow to pay all or some of their college expenses, the average student left college about $28,400 in the hole in 2013, according to USNews<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This alarming number has triggered a spate of news stories about female college students who are so panicked, so morally freewheeling, or both, that they are seeking the services of \u201csugar daddies\u201d: older, well-fixed men who yearn to sponsor the academic careers of young college-age women in return for the sheer pleasure of spending time in the company of one of those youthful but impecunious \u201csugar babies.\u201d (No, it\u2019s not<\/em> prostitution, everyone involved insists!)<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, would-be Holly Golightlys ought to be wary of claims that the sugar-baby lifestyle will make pursuing that B.A. in art history entirely cost-free. For one thing, the entity that seems to the biggest promoter of the sugaring-one\u2019s-way-through-college phenomenon is none other than SeekingArrangement itself, apparently the world\u2019s largest sugar broker, with a claimed 3.6 million members. A promotional video uploaded onto YouTube by Seeking Arrangements in January 2015 touts \u201cSugar Baby University\u201d with images of gorgeous young ladies who seem to be majoring in mascara, one of whom is being handed a sheaf of C-notes as she sits at her laptop. \u201cTake out loans and eat ramen,\u201d says the voice-over, \u201cor get a sugar daddy and live the life you\u2019ve always wanted. Sugar Baby U. is the place \u201cwhere beautiful, ambitious people graduate debt-free,\u201d the voice continues.<\/p>\n

SeekingArrangement\u2019s motives in seeking maximum numbers of enrollees in Sugar Baby U. who are also enrollees at real universities are blindingly clear: College-age women \u2014 almost always in their early twenties \u2014 are the most desirable age group for men seeking less-than-serious liaisons. (Google \u201ccoed porn,\u201d and you\u2019ll see what I mean.)<\/p>\n

But the competition for those well-heeled older men willing to foot the bill for a lovely young thing to \u201clive the lifestyle\u201d she\u2019s \u201calways wanted\u201d turns out to be quite stiff. SeekingArrangement\u2019s home page advertises that there are \u201c8 sugar babies per sugar daddy\u201d \u2014 not a hopeful-sounding ratio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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