Imagine a site filled with beautiful young girls all seeking help paying off their college loans, student debt, etc. No need to imagine, a site called SeekingArrangement.com is just that. A web site full of young women seeking sugar daddies to help them pay off their college loans. In earlier times we would just call these people prostitutes and more recently the term I use would be sex worker. It's an honest profession and I have no problem with it as long as those who engage are doing it of their own volition.
Truth be told I have friends who are sex workers and I love and respect them. My problem with this new version of the oldest profession is it's wink-wink, nudge-nudge pretending that what is going on here is not just plain old sex work. The bigger problem is many of these women are doing this because they can find no other way to pay off their gigantic student loans. Seriously, I am not making this up!
The site operates in the grey area of the law since it doesn't explicitly detail sex for money services. Perhaps this will be a growing trend, who knows. It is a pity that the burden of student loans is so great that graduates feel forced into these kinds of arrangements. Like I said, sex work is a valid career choice, but my problem is the coercive aspect of the transaction and the illusion that it is anything but what it is.
Oh well, you say "ba-nah-na," I say "ba-nan-uh." We live in interesting times.
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