The other day I was thinking about the number of young women in Latin America who pay for their education and/or their living expenses while in college through prostitution. Don't take my word for it, just check out any of the better "locales" in places like Lima, Peru.

Well, imagine my surprise a few moments ago when I run into an article in The Atlantic about 100's of thousands of American young college women, "Sugar Babies" looking for "Sugar Daddies" on-line trying to pay their way through college or their student debt. These rich "Sugar Daddies" are the same ones who have been sucking off the economy for decades.

"What might have been little more than a nuisance in the past has turned into an outright hindrance to many students’ financial security: It takes about 14 years on average to pay off the debt. As a result, young women across the country are turning to sugar daddies in droves. Many of them use SeekingArrangement, which describes itself as "the world’s largest Sugar Daddy dating site." More than 1.4 million students have signed up as members, including nearly 1 million in the U.S., according to the company. The website claims that 42 percent of its members are students, many of whom are incentivized by SeekingArrangement to join; people who sign up with a .edu email address or show proof of enrollment, for example, receive "premium memberships" for free."

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/01/where-the-sugar-bab...