Lazy spoiled brat provokes debate on prostitution

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**Kid_Kyoto**

It starts with this essay

http://www2.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-30/my-sugar-daddy/1/

Basically a college girl interviewed for an internship and instead the boss suggested she be his kept woman, monthly allowance, Amex card, apartment etc.

"From the outside, a mutually beneficial, or sugar daddy, relationship seems immoral. Maybe even the distant cousin of—dare I say it?—prostitution. "

And it turns out there's a whole site for this kind of sugar daddy/sugar baby arrangement:
http://seekingarrangement.com/

CREEPY!

**Necros**

I wouldn't mind a sugar mommy as long as she's hot

**reds8n**

Man, I was so sure this thrread was going to about Paris Hilton.

**Xav**

reds8n so did i, the title realy gave it away." lazy spiled brat provokes debate on prostitution" but i was wrong.

**warpcrafter**

That's exactly the sort of relationship that nearly any honest parents would be happy for their daughter to be involved in. That some people might consider it immoral because they both know why they are doing it and set up ground rules and qualifications beforehand is no different than a really comprehensive pre-nuptual. It's only the hypocrisy of this falsely puritannical society that makes so many marriages of convenience remain secret. Other couples marry with their own agendas that they never talk about and then they either live miserable or have a messy divorce because of this lack of communication, or one of them kills the other. (Seen it on a lot of TV shows, mostly Law & Order and CSI.)

**Frazzled**

Well she's set-after the Boss's company settles for the obsecene amount of money she just won, its time for her to retire to Tahiti. We gots laws against them sort of things padna!

**malfred**

This thread is as morally bankrupt as I am financially. Once I get some money in the bank I'll take
another look at it.

**Typeline**

Necros wrote:I wouldn't mind a sugar mommy as long as she's hot

I did that for a bit. They tend to be a lot older than you and you usually end up feeling like some hobo who just happens to be a mail prostitute. In my experience they talk down to you a lot too. So I just went back to the way I had been doing it. I'm in a relationship were we both usually pony up for the bills, although I pick up the slack most of the time now.

Anyone who wants to though, more power to them. Live your life how you see it fit. Don't let people's varying moral standards take hold of you and rob you of happiness. Even if that happiness is heroine, weed, or emotionless sex. As long as your only hurting yourself, go for it.

**Kilkrazy**

Like prostitution, the kept mistress is an ancient and honourable profession.

**Tacobake**

He didn't even ask her if she played 40k.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Hmm well is she a girlfriend or an employee?

If she's an employee of the sugar daddy then he's got a heckuva lot of problems. Is he paying her payroll taxes? Was she hired in a discriminatory fashion? Or did he only look at white blond young women? Severance pay? health insurance?

If she's a girlfriend then the fact she negociated a price (a CASH price) first pretty much puts it into the prostitution. Something that will bite both of them.

**Orkeosaurus**

Typeline wrote:happens to be a mail prostitute.

Is that like a mail order bride?

The way I see it, if people like these find each other, they'll be less likely to bother others.
If it doesn't work, which it probably won't, they should have seen it coming.

(Also, it's not a "distant cousin" of anything.)

**Kilkrazy**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Hmm well is she a girlfriend or an employee?

If she's an employee of the sugar daddy then he's got a heckuva lot of problems. Is he paying her payroll taxes? Was she hired in a discriminatory fashion? Or did he only look at white blond young women? Severance pay? health insurance?

If she's a girlfriend then the fact she negociated a price (a CASH price) first pretty much puts it into the prostitution. Something that will bite both of them.

You can legitimately discriminate when hiring if the job requires it. For example, hiring women only staff to work in a nunnery or something like that.

I would say she is a freelancer except the guy is paying all her basic expenses which under UK law would make her an employee.

Is prostitution illegal in the USA? How it is defined?

**Corey85**

At the end of the day everything is just a resource. Be it your body, support or simply cash. People always trade things they have to others for their goods and services. I don't really see a problem with this as long as its up front and both parties see the exchange for what it is.

**malfred**

Kilkrazy wrote:
Is prostitution illegal in the USA? How it is defined?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_United_States

Remember that most laws are determined by the individual state.

**Redbeard**

Prostitution is legal in brothels in some counties in some states that are way far away from any population center.

When my wife and I took a motorcycle trip out west a couple of summers ago, we decided to go and look for one, see what one of these brothels looked like. Kinda like a trailer park:

http://kallend.net/alex/pictures/western2006/P1020281.JPG

Edit: picture too wide for forum, changed to link. Picture is Safe for Work, just a building...

**malfred**

Outside only? :(

**Kilkrazy**

Then UK law is fairly similar to Rhode Island law.

Prostitution is legal. Street prostitution and kerb crawling are illegal as is keeping a brothel.

**JohnHwangDD**

I don't have any problems with guys taking mistresses or seeing prostitutes. And neither does America. That is why we never prosecute rich and powerful clients, only the working girls and madams.

**Envy89**

malfred wrote:This thread is as morally bankrupt as I am financially.

QFT.

**JohnHwangDD**

Good, but...

Copying isn't stealing!