It appears there’s a lot more going on at New York University, Columbia, Cornell and Syracuse than just studying. In a recent article it was revealed that more than a few female students are turning to other sources of income than traditional student jobs like waitressing:
Alex Cranshaw, 22, who graduated from NYU last year, said three of his female classmates had sugar daddies — including a woman whose benefactor financed a whole semester in Madrid. “He funded her tuition, paid for her housing, gave her spending money and paid for her airfare,” Cranshaw said. “She told her parents she got a scholarship. They had no idea.”
These young girls grew up in an environment of supercharged entitlement, told never to judge, and the s-word, “shame”, scrubbed from their lexicon. Why is anyone surprised they turned out this way?
Lucky girls…The company of a mature man (he says pushing back his silver-grey hair), a mentor and money in the bank.
Given some of the remarkable losers who pass for university boys at the moment, being a wealthy, successful man’s mistress for a few years might be a very attractive option. In any case, it is no one’s business and certainly does not represent the end of civilization as we know it. Of course it is “prostitution” if you need to call it something but so is marrying for money or, for that matter accepting a dinner date without offering to pay your share.
I have always thought the word “prostitution” is simply a code for expressing disapproval of a particular price point.
(Hate the term “sugar” wrt to either babe or daddy. It is the sort of urban/ghetto ugliness which gradually destroys the language.)
Yeah but Jay, really. Do you want some bimbo in your house who only hangs around you for the money? Seriously.
For LAS and all the other faux-Libertarian retards, it all sounds just ducky in theory. So does Communism.
In practice? I’m a middle aged guy. I’m going to keep some college-age stripper in my pad that I gotta PAY like the cleaning lady so she’ll pretend to be my girlfriend? What kind of freak would go for that? I get the EEEEW! shudders just thinking about it.
And just think about the 3AM regrets those broads are going to have. That’s some heavy duty baggage to be carrying for a lifetime, just for a few bucks. Karma never sleeps and it never goes away.
Like I said above, I can’t stop it and shouldn’t try, but I don’t have to pretend its ok.
Who is the “rest of us” you keep referring to? Is the Tooth Fairy among them?
Recall that the recent Ontario court ruling regarding the prostitution provisions of the CCC involved just such a young woman (very attractive, very well turned-out, blond, just about 32 years of age now, a nice string of pearls around her neck — just can’t find her name at the moment), who got into the business to finance her university (U of T, if memory serves) education and has carried on with her career serving an “exclusive” clientele. Great poster-girl for the cause, with all the right kind of indignant (male) Osgoode Hall Law School professors arguing her case pro-bono, etc., etc., etc. So the issue, at least in a related way, doesn’t reside too far from home — in fact, according to the ruling, brothels could well be on your street or mine, according to municipal by-law regimes yet to be created.
For those who haven’t read it yet, this issue is a very good reason to get a copy of Mark Steyn’s After America, which discusses at length “over-credentialing”, KIPPERS and the emergence of the higher education myth. And Glenn Reynolds has also been talking about the “Higher Education Bubble” for months now, most directly in regard to American legal education.
Just considered as a piece of social commentary, this whole thing seems deeply weird to me. Obviously, it’s completely at variance with the conventional feminist wisdom that’s been ladled down our throats now for decades: it’s a Lena Dunham film, actually, with, I’m guessing, better looking and more well-spoken women; by the way, where ARE the feminists on this? (I knew it — the usual silence in the face of one of the irreconcilable conundrums that regularly arise for them). And what about the traditional rationale for higher education? In my day (and I’m not old), you strove for academic excellence to escape this kind of thing — one’s independent quality of life was what was at issue, not the possession of a chattel or piece of idolatry. This story is about the loss of independence — both financial and otherwise, like some kind of term (pardon the pun) indentured servitude or something, assuming it actually ends up having a definite term. And get this — it ultimately depends on a vast income disparity between the buyer and the seller. Any ideas about the kind of industries the buyers work in?
I’m sure the Captain would have lots to add about the supply and demand dynamics in play here, but $60,000 for each of four years to get an undergraduate degree that puts you into direct competition with a massive over-supply of other similarly-situated graduates? Really? Where’s the consumer common sense? A recurring theme at SDA is about the artificial misdirection of economic resources due to herd-mentality fads and misperceived value, both arising from hypocritical left-wing notions of social and economic “justice”: this is another case in point, in much the same manner as green energy or the perversion of home ownership (through sub-prime lending and distortion of market price-to-rent ratios).
The fact that you think this is new exposes your true ignorance.
Ya really like the word ‘shame’ dontcha cons.
Pathetic.
David Southam, I agree that paying $60 K/year for a useless education is simply idiotic. What’s even more idiotic is getting a useless degree and then finding out afterwards it’s going to take the rest of you life to pay off your student loans.
So, considering that university students seem to spend much of their free time having sex, one can either blow large chunks of ones student loans on booze and drugs and have frequent sex with drunken frat boys and complain loudly about her medical plan not covering the costs of condoms, or one can find an older man, be his mistress and get her tuition paid for.
Despite having a useless degree, the woman who chose to “prostitute” herself will leave university debt free. Also, she’ll have likely picked up some good practical knowledge from the man who paid for her education as that type of knowledge rubs off with close contact. The chances are she’ll find a guy who’s been successful because they’re good at what they do and a low chance of finding a previously unemployed guy on welfare who won the lottery. She’ll also have picked up a practical skill as a practitioner of the tantric arts.
She’ll be much more likely to be successful as she doesn’t have $240 K of debt dragging her down when she finds out that her degree is absolutely worthless. This is in contrast to the university student who choses the “high road” of conventional university life, and will likely end up in an OWS encampment protesting the fact that her puppetry degree just qualifies her for a job at Starbucks, a job that will never pay off her university debt.
One of my former patients married a total loser just so she would be allowed to stay in Canada. She did very well for herself owning a number of properties in Vancouver and eventually separating from her husband. She thought marrying him to stay in Canada was the best career move she ever made. I’ve also had patients who were fairly old men who married 20 year olds from the Philippines. Again, a win win situation as that’s the only way these women would ever get into Canada and when their husbands die, they are way better off than if they’d gone the conventional route of staying in the Philippines and marrying someone equally poor. I won’t even get into the problems that arranged marriages cause – do we call this prostitution by proxy?