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When is gold digging prostitution? A college student explains how she landed her "sugar daddy."
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  • WE'RE TALKIN' SEMANTICS HERE

    Back in my high school days at old LHS here in central Wisconsin, the hook was having a car. All the other "goodies" followed. Sex at the drive-in theater was near impossible without one and isolated "Camp Zip" at Lake Wazeecha was too damned far to walk to.

    Next question?

  • heh heh

    and you still wouldn't be smart enough or tough enough to talk over AKA Smith's head.

    All I usually sense from her is some mix of anger and arrogance driving a fallacious and outmoded mode of thinking about men and women.

    Though occasionally she does hit on a good point or two.

  • It's a small world, Midwestgeezer

    (Cue the cheesy Disney music)

    I swam in Lake Wazeecha several times this summer, while on visits to Rapids. It was fun. They have a cute little beach there. Too bad Rapids itself is so dull. At least Point has the UW campus to liven things up a bit.

  • So what?

    The only difference between this particular situation and any other one where a women with "good breeding" but no real job skills is allowed to sleep her way to the top is that in this case the potential employer was honest and acted in the best interests of his company.

    If this trull wants to pretend she's "too much of a lady" to be a prostitute that's her mistake. I'm reminded of an old Striesand move called Cracked(?) or something like that where Barbara portrays a prostitute from an upscale family. At some point in the movie she points out that she knows women who sleep with husbands they loath so they can drive a Mercedes and says at least when she goes down on her knees she's responsible for what she's doing.

    My only problem with prostitutiion is that at the low end it usually leads to blatant exploitation of the women, and sometimes men, invloved. That isn't the case here, so what's the harm. On the other hand, how long is it likely to be before the sugardaddy finds someone younger and prettier who also has "good breeding" and dumps this little princess on the street?

  • Well he did advise her to save money

    According to her, she has a $12,000 nest egg built up that he advised her to save. So it's not like she'll be flat broke when either he or she decides that the relationship is no longer mutually beneficial. Geez folks, you act like this is her only gig. She is a college senior working as an intern. It's not like she just lounges around all day getting primped and pampered at the spa waiting for him to call for some dinner and nookie.

    I know a mistress to an NBA athelete who is in her 40's and not nearly as smart as this girl. She hasn't saved any of the money that the NBA guy has given her over the years and her friends keep warning her that one day when he retires he won't have the travel excuse to hide her from his wife anymore so she better start saving money because everything she has is on his dime and she doesn't work at all.

  • I blame the Sugar Daddies.

    If it weren't for these lazy schmucks who clearly have no game, we wouldn't have any gold diggers to complain about. Exotic vacations, expensive gifts, a rent-free apartment and this douchebag still had to wait three months before getting any sex!? Are you kidding me? How can I blame any woman for taking this guy to the cleaners when he so willingly serves up his own balls on a silver platter. Pathetic.

  • @ IaintBacchus

    "Nuts"

  • Sex without love?

    Ideally, it seems that even if people are having sex without love that they ought to at least be able to achieve towards their partner a feeling of goodwill and reasonable respect.

    The whole business end exchange with strangers would seem to preclude this.

    Interestingly, my latest issue of Scientific American Mind has an article on why men buy sex. What surprised me is that -- after being told over and over here at Broadsheet that "men pay prostitutes to go away" -- this article says that a surprising number of men are repeat customers of the same prostitute. One study by sociologist Janet Lever found that "more than two thirds of devotees used the services of a particular prostitutes more than 50 times. One in four had sex with the same prostitute more than 100 times" (Mind).

    So what's up with that? It sounds almost like a relationship. If what men are really seeking is variety, why the repeat customers?

    Mind speculates that "real relationships with women are risky and complicated, features that men don't always want and cannot always handle." Moreover that "an ordinary female date might reject a man or happen to be tired, distant, or not in the mood."

    So whatever these particular men are seeking, it surely isn't unpredictability.

    A study by Dieter Kleiber said that there was a sort of romantic john who was seeking "the ideal of love in a fee-for-service setting."

    How sad is that?

  • Not Blurry At All.

    I don't think this blurs the line of anything. Golddigging = prostitution. Whatever you think of the practice, whatever moral ideas you do or don't attach to it, they are the same.

  • @ Lestat1

    That woman you know who has the relationship with the athlete sounds like she is treating a mistress relationship like a marriage. Poor fool.

    After all those years, she should get smart and at least see if she can get him to buy her a house with reasonable property taxes. It sounds to me that she is getting used as much as she is using.

    My guess is that she loves the guy.

    I have known women like that. An amazing number of so-called hard-hearted whores/golddiggers seem to be romantics under the skin. Women I have talked to who are sex workers don't seem at all clever or prepared for the future. They seem to live day to day.

    I am told by people who should know that strippers often pay their fee to the club and then take their money home to boyfriends who provide them with no benefit or protection. They actually support these slackers. Of course, it is also possible that some of them turn tricks on the side.

    Someday someone ought to do a study on what happens to these women -- follow them for a number of years. I would bet that violence, drugs, or mental illness gets a lot of them.

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