<p>And if no one would judge them for it later, it might not feel like such a huge mistake to some of us. But can you imagine if one of those young women were to run for higher office or be nominated for the Supreme Court later in life, and this came out? Young people often don’t see the long term consequences of their actions.</p>
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<p>And that is $14K is per person. </p>
<p>Nothing stopping the Sugar Daddy’s brother from doing the same thing - so that is $56K in a matter of of 2 hours. $28K at 11PM 12/31 and $28K on 1 AM 1/1. Add a friend in there as well and the number goes up. </p>
<p>It does not matter that the brother and friend both work for the Sugar Daddy’s company. It is easy to give someone tons of money from the same place without ever being connected, all tax-free. </p>
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<p>This already happened last year. Wendy Davis the democrat front-runner was found out that she had a Sugar daddy husband that paid her way though law school, and she left him the day after her Harvard loan was paid off by the guy. She played the game to perfection, by even getting married.</p>
<p>The notoriety doesn’t seem to have hurt Wendi Murdoch’s career prospects.</p>
<p>“this is what feminists want, right? the option to choose without being judged?”</p>
<p>Such a cliche response. The feminists I know would not choose to engage in this sort of “work” and are not stupid enough to think that society does not judge. They rely on their intellect to get what they want - like many men do.</p>
<p>It really did not hurt Wendy Davis at first either. What it did do was made people look at her other actions and they started seeing a pattern that was all too similar. She lived the Sugar Daddy mindset in some serious ways, not just with the Sugar Daddy.</p>
<p>“There’s no financial impetus for such a student to prostitute herself, as the college meets financial need” and because every family contributes the full EFC, so once the parents have gladly contributed their full EFC, Princeton fills in the rest…</p>
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<p>Alas, Princeton does not pay of the new car, the dinners at the 21, or the trip to Paris. It really all depends on what the student sees / expects as her compete college experience. Tuition bills are only part of the equation and the article kind of skews too much to making it seem that tuition is always the main reason. This may account for 50% of the girls. The other 50% are in it for the lifestyle.</p>
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Just another symptom of this culture of “I want what I want and someone else should pay for it”. There is another thread floating around about the student who is enraged with the president of NYU because she has to leave the school because she cannot pay the tuition. Really, I am not kidding.</p>
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<p>A free man in a free society will give as much as he wants to his sugar baby, without seeking validation from any government agency, including the IRS …</p>
<p>Princeton only pays the definition of what it thinks the family needs</p>
<p>The young people I know, want to be the truest version of their self that they can be.
If you can’t be honest with yourself, you have no business being in a serious relationship with someonfe else.
I expect these young woman don’t realize they are playing with fire.
You can’t turn your true self on and off like a spigot.
Of course maybe their true selves are shallow and mercenary.</p>
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If I remember correctly, gifts are free for the recipient. </p>
<p>To some people, it’s a cost-benefit analysis. If the cost is bearable, and the benefits are “necessary”, some people would risk a lot. </p>
<p>This is a variation of pursuing the Mrs. degree, or perhaps, foolishly thinking perhaps one of the escortees will confer that degree a la Pretty Woman.</p>
<p>Quite frankly, I have less problems w the sugar daddy issue than I do w well-off families rearranging their assets to land more FA. At least the sugar daddy deal is an honest arrangement btwn 2 consenting adults.</p>
<p>I find it interesting that all the negativity here, all the talk of impacted careers, is centered only on the women. Perhaps society needs to put some pressure on the men as well. A woman only works her way through college on her back if some man pays her, and while that young woman may only be an 18- or 19-year-old teenager the man who’s settled enough in his career that he can write a hefty tuition check isn’t the 20-year-old boy next door. Why does he invariably get a free ride from society, as it were?</p>
<p>I don’t think he gets a free ride from society. Everyone pretty much figures the 60 yo who needs to pay a 20 yo for a date is kind of a loser if he’s that wealthy and can’t find a woman more his own age. </p>
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<p>Hint - those guys do not want women their own age. It is not a a issue of finding them; they do not even look for them. </p>
<p>Trophy mistresses.</p>
<p>Well, there were a lot of articles last week about that OkCupid “study” purporting to find that men of pretty much any age prefer 20 year-old women: <a href=“OkCupid Says Men Are Most Attracted to 20-Year-Olds, and Here's Why It Totally Doesn't Matter”>http://www.bustle.com/articles/40157-okcupid-says-men-are-most-attracted-to-20-year-olds-and-heres-why-it-totally-doesnt-matter</a></p>
<p>Which I don’t believe for one minute, any more than I believed that women over 40 had a better chance of being killed in a terrorist attack than getting married 25 years ago. <a href=“http://www.alternet.org/story/37582/newsweek’s_apology_too_little,_20_years_too_late”>http://www.alternet.org/story/37582/newsweek’s_apology_too_little,_20_years_too_late</a> And I don’t think that Sugar Daddies paying for college is a worrisome developing trend today. I have too much respect for women AND men to think so.</p>