<p>^^ To piggy-back on post #19, the Sugar Daddy approach is an actual conscious choice by women who know there is another way to achieve what they want; they just choose this way. </p>
<p>All the ones I have met could have easily been mistaken for the guy’s girlfriend or wife, just younger. Escorts are easy to spot - they are distant. So, there is even a relationship difference as well. </p>
<p>The occupational hazard is the potential for future embarrassment when these sugar babies go on to a professional career and the nature of their college part-time job is outed. </p>
<p>“The number one thing I’m getting out of this article is that a college education in the US is too expensive, and needs to be made more accessible to a wider range of people.”</p>
<p>And the number one thing that I am getting out of this article is that we need to do a better job of instilling self respect in our daughters.</p>
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<p>I do not think anyone would disagree with that.</p>
<p>However, with Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton being the images of the day, it is hard for many girls not to aspire to that lifestyle, .i.e, getting things the easy way. Hang out with the right guys, sleep with a few, and get stuff given to you. </p>
<p>As a society, we will get what we sow. It does make it more many times more difficult to instill solid values, and while having little issue showing girls that smut on TV and the Internet. The smut wins. Just like the drinking culture on campus wins, no matter how much we preach do not get drink to the point of total impairment.</p>
<p>A distinction I would take is that these girls do not really lack self-respect in the way we are talking. </p>
<p>What they lack is the foresight that there really is no easy way to certain things, and there is always a price to pay. </p>
<p>The price they pay is the respect of others, but they, themselves, do not lack self-respect in the way we are thinking. I have not met a more confident group of women, who do “respect” themselves. What is missing is that self-respect they think need not be projected or presented to others in terms of their actual behavior. A fine distinction, I know, but that is where they live. </p>
<p>I have a female engineer friend who had a student job as a test subject for MRI machines. She also earned her way thru college on her back… </p>
<p>“However, with Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton being the images of the day, it is hard for many girls not to aspire to that lifestyle, .i.e, getting things the easy way. Hang out with the right guys, sleep with a few, and get stuff given to you.”</p>
<p>My impression is that the Kardashian clan and their ilk are laughed at by our children’s generation. I don’t know any young girls that aspire to be like them. I don’t think it went unnoticed that her recent wedding was very poorly attended by the glitterati - people keep their distance. When they rented out a slew of houses in the Hamptons this summer, residents were more than willing to do television interviews to send them the message they were not welcome. And this is an area where some very big names in Hollywood own homes. Not very neighborly, but I agree with you on one point - you reap what you sow.</p>
<p>And as far as “sleep with a few guys and get stuff given to you”, well I would like to believe these women are the exception rather than the rule. The article linked above saddened me. As parents we need to forget about this culture of personal freedoms, anything goes and political correctness and get back to parenting our children the best we can.</p>
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<p>I did not say aspire to be like them. I said take the easy way, to get what one wants, like them. There is a difference. </p>
<p>The Hamptons is a totally different crowd than what we are talking about here. Most Hampton girls do not aspire to be professionals like many of these sugar baby women; they are socialists who see Kardashians as nouveau invaders of their space. </p>
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<p>I would say that is about right, but, and it is a big but, as there are a lot more sugar babies than people realize. It really depends what you call an exception.</p>
<p>On some college campuses, I know that one guy told me that easily 10% of the girls are sugar babies. That does not hit me as an exception for too long, sounds more like a bona fide subculture way of life. </p>
<p>^^ Hamptons girls are socialists? Funniest line of the day. </p>
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<p>I went to school with many of them. At least the ones that own the mansions and estates view themselves as the socialists of NY city, which many of them are. Whose dads and moms do you think run Wall Street and the charity events? I am not talking about the girls that actually live in the towns year-round, but the ones who visit in the summer. </p>
<p>^ socialists or socialites? What a difference a couple of letters make. </p>
<p>Well, if they are redistributing the sugar daddies’ wealth, I guess they are sort of socialist. ;)</p>
<p>I don’t think socialite and socialist are mutually exclusive terms. On the other hand, there’s a big difference between theory and practice.</p>
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<p>You got me there. That is what I get for typing fast. 
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<p>^ ever since I started posting via an iPad, it takes me twice as long and I have 4x as many strange autocorrects. </p>
<p>^^ And the really bad part is your brain does an autocorrect as well and subsequently reads the wrong word, as the correct word. A no-win situation for the human brain.</p>
<p>Too funny - I didn’t know what to make of the “socialist” comment. Left me scratching my head. Did not make the connection to “socialites”.</p>
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<p>Prostitution is bad enough, but if they paid tax on it I would have even more contempt for their stupidity.</p>
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<p>this is what feminists want, right? the option to choose without being judged?</p>
<p>The IRS allows u to give a tax-free gift up to $14k per year. A sugar daddy can give his sugar baby $14k on 31-Dec, and then another $14k the next day on 01-Jan. </p>