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2019 Jul 11, 3:58pm   1,138 views  10 comments

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‘Sugar Daddy’ business thrives as more coeds sign up to pay off student debt

Congress continues to put pressure on websites that appear to aid in the solicitation of sex work

President Donald Trump’s administration is partly responsible for a new wave of college students seeking out “sugar daddies” to pay off their student loans, according to a web service dedicated to facilitating such relationships.

A recent statement by SeekingArrangement, a website which matches “sugar mommies” and “sugar daddies” with “sugar babies,” argues that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos* is “seemingly waging war against tens of thousands of student loan borrowers.”

“Rather than look to Washington for relief, more than two million students are turning to Sugar Daddies and Sugar Mommies,” the site claims.

The company’s announcement comes even as Congress continues to put pressure on websites that appear to aid in the solicitation of sex work.

SeekingArrangement pairs wealthy older men and women looking for “companionship” with younger adults who are willing to be paid for their services. Often times, these relationships are expected to be sexual, some of its users have said.

Data from the company show 30 percent of the money earned by sugar babies is spent on tuition and school-related expenses. The site claims 2.5 million of its 20 million users are American college students.

In March, the University of North Carolina student newspaper profiled “Anna,” an anonymous student who earned $12,000 a month from three sugar daddies. Every sugar baby interviewed by the paper said they regularly engage in sexual conduct with their sugar daddies, some being flown to New York to do so.

“Anna and many other sugar babies said sex is expected by a majority of men on the site,” according to the Daily Tar Heel article.

According to a poll conducted in England in 2017, one in three college students is willing to trade sexual favors for help paying for college. The poll found that 59 percent of students were either “a bit,” “mildly,” or “very” interested in becoming a sugar baby.

But according to SeekingArrangement, the Trump administration and the ones before it are all but forcing students into sex work.

“Over the past three administrations, the overall cost of attending college has more than doubled,” said Brandon Wade, the company’s founder, in a statement.

“Students are tired of hearing politicians campaign on the importance of education, job growth, and opportunity-just to leave promises on the convention floor,” he said.

SeekingArrangement declined multiple requests via email and phone to comment by The College Fix.

According to SeekingArrangement data, the average sugar daddy is 41 years old and has an annual income of $250,000. New York tops the list of “sugar dating” cities, followed by London, Toronto and Los Angeles.

“With an average monthly allowance of $3,000, student Sugar Babies can pay off tuition in about three months, leaving many with the ability to focus on achieving an education,” the site states.

The site specifically attempts to recruit college women, as students with an .edu e-mail address are allowed to join for free. The company also distributes literature promising “debt free” college or “free tuition.”

“Students registered on SeekingArrangement get help paying for tuition and even more benefits,” claims the company. “Finding the right Sugar Daddy can help students gain access to the right network and opportunities. College Sugar Babies can also get help paying for other college-related costs, such as books and housing.”

“Sugaring” also helps young women pay non-education-related expenses. One of the women interviewed by the Daily Tar Heel said working as a sugar baby allowed her to pay for necessary medicine.

The site classifies itself as a “venue,” therefore absolving itself of performing background checks on its users. Potential sugar daddies and mommies can pay $2,000 to join the site’s “Diamond Club,” which verifies the user’s income and conducts a background check.

For years, the site has faced accusations that it facilitates prostitution, taking advantage of young women in dire financial need. But the company has always maintained that it is simply a dating website where no specific offers of sex in exchange for money are made.

Nonetheless, Congress had continued to put pressure on websites that appear to aid in the solicitation of sex work. In mid-2018, President Trump signed both the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, which were drafted to hold platforms and internet service providers responsible if users of the sites promote prostitution.

According to Eric Goldman, a Santa Clara University law professor who specializes in internet law, FOSTA raises “significant concerns” about the viability of the sugar daddy community.

Goldman told The College Fix that sugar daddy sites could find themselves in the crosshairs of a state or federal prosecutor “because of the fact that we all know what’s going on, even if nothing expressly condones prostitution in the marketing material.”

Goldman noted that the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act added more crimes that could be pursued by either state or federal law enforcement officers. He suggested that “everyone is aware of this community,” but it is a “very complicated decision” for prosecutors to decide whether to pursue charges against a sugar daddy website.

“There are some participants in the sugar daddy community who don’t engage in commercial sex,” added Goldman, warning that it would be “unfortunate to foreclose that possibility in the effort to shut down the commercial sex.”

Following passage of the new federal law, websites like Backpage and Craigslist Casual Encounters went out of business, as both were accused of facilitating prostitution.

Attorney Justin Webb of Milwaukee-based law firm Godfrey & Kahn called SeekingArrangement’s presence on the internet “unchartered legal territory,” noting the laws “haven’t been enforced against anybody yet.”

“That’s both good and bad” for SeekingArrangement, said Webb, noting that “it’s good in that you’re going to have a lot of people who were originally against FOSTA and SESTA perhaps writing amicus briefs in a case once it gets to an appellate level, but it’s bad in that whatever court gets it can interpret it narrowly or broadly.”

Webb said there might be some state attorneys general “itching for a test case” to take SeekingArrangement to court, “especially those that find this kind of conduct abhorrent.”


https://www.thecollegefix.com/sugar-daddy-business-thrives-as-more-coeds-sign-up-to-pay-off-student-debt/

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1   Ceffer   2019 Jul 11, 4:02pm  

The wallet is mightier than the gag reflex!
2   Booger   2019 Jul 11, 4:10pm  

willywonka says
In March, the University of North Carolina student newspaper profiled “Anna,” an anonymous student who earned $12,000 a month from three sugar daddies


That's far more than she is going to earn at any job anytime soon, and tax free.
3   RWSGFY   2019 Jul 11, 4:16pm  

Booger says
That's far more than she is going to earn at any job anytime soon, and tax free.


Working is for suckers.
4   Ceffer   2019 Jul 11, 4:21pm  

This has been going on forever. In the day, the local massage parlors were great ways for the girls to make their way through college. I had a wild and pretty girl friend for a while when I was undergraduate at UC. She had a guy talk to her in class. He pimped his wife out as a high price mistress to a couple of RichFucks, and she paid his way through school. He tried to recruit my girl friend because he saw it as an expansion business and she asked my approval and said she would support me from the ample proceeds for a couple of sessions a month for exclusive clientele.

I probably should have done it, but I was too numb nuts at the time to really decide. Instead, I stayed poor. That was the closest I ever came to actually being with a hooker. I doubt she did it, but I suspect she actually did some hooking when she later moved to San Francisco and our relationship became more intermittent.
5   clambo   2019 Jul 11, 6:59pm  

In some places this isn't evidently so common as it seemed to be in S. Florida; that place was crawling with pros, semi-pros, hoes, sugar babies and sugar daddies all over the place.

I think the vast number of retired men and tax refugees from NY/NJ/CT with tons of dough to spend combined with the low pay of many service jobs down there combined to make the perfect conditions for this to thrive.

I was not seeking girls and I met one at Home Depot; two of her coworkers wanted to see me after work, both were in their 20's. The two coworkers contacted me.

I was introduced to another girl who was working in the daytime in a senior nursing home and she wanted to see me after her work hours. Another one worked as a bar tender but liked men and money. A couple of others asked me for some $ to help them with various unexpected expenses.

I began to feel really weird about any female I met; I became almost paranoid. I was accustomed to the typical California proud yet bitchy girls who would not dream of asking me for money.

The girls were from Colombia, Cuba, Riviera Beach, FL, Jupiter, FL, Jamaica, Haiti.
6   HeadSet   2019 Jul 11, 7:41pm  

‘Sugar Daddy’ business thrives as more coeds sign up to pay off student debt

Interesting. Just doing the college version of a "Kamala."
7   HeadSet   2019 Jul 11, 7:45pm  

Booger says
willywonka says
In March, the University of North Carolina student newspaper profiled “Anna,” an anonymous student who earned $12,000 a month from three sugar daddies


That's far more than she is going to earn at any job anytime soon, and tax free.


Yep, and just how Peanuts character Schroeder wore a Beethoven sweatshirt to honor his role model, these coeds should wear a "Kamala" sweatshirt to honor theirs.
8   CBOEtrader   2019 Jul 11, 9:04pm  

IRS would consider this income, just sayin
9   Rin   2019 Jul 11, 9:48pm  

CBOEtrader says
IRS would consider this income


No 1099 and thus, no paper trail
10   RWSGFY   2019 Jul 11, 9:49pm  

Rin says
CBOEtrader says
IRS would consider this income


No 1099 and thus, no paper trail


Sting operation!

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