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Thursday, December 4, 2008 12:00 AM

When is gold digging prostitution?

A college student explains how she landed her "sugar daddy."

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  • Wednesday, December 3, 2008 07:25 PM

    Eeeuwwwww

    I think it's meretricious -- from "meretrix," or a practitioner of one of the world's oldest professions (the other is probably "moralizer").

    Before I was a feminist, I was a well-brought-up girl from Ohio with much the same advantages (though my blood was and is more red than blue); and both of us think it's tacky.

    What happens to people like that when their looks start to go off? Am I really going to talk about character and morality?

    Nahhh. She's not worth the bandwidth.

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