With the recent glut of women on these sites looking for sugar daddies, does this mean that everyone who pays taxes owns a share in some sort of common stock of mistresses? Anti-feminists have long considered the post-feminist state some kind of surrogate husband for divorced women and single mothers. Perhaps they’ve been looking at the “arrangement,” as it’s apparently called, from the entirely wrong point of view.

After all, there hasn’t been a glut of marriageable women on the market, desperately seeking men with steady employment with whom to procreate and build a family. On the contrary, the move seems to be from a socialized sort of “arrangement” into a more privatized version. Far be it for me or anyone else to call this prostitution. To do so would be to move dangerously close to a world view that sees marriage as little more than a socially sanctioned version thereof. 

More to the point, I’m pretty sure that no one’s getting beaten with a sack of oranges. Apparently these types of websites have a pretty stringent screening process.

I’d caution strongly against waiting until the renationalization of our nation’s sugar babies and angling for your portion of the common stock. Suffice it to say that people rarely see things the same way as I do. Strike while the iron is hot and get yourself a taut blonde grad student before it’s too late. The government shutdown will be over soon enough and with Uncle Sam offering Pentagon prices for starving grad students, which will price out just about everyone but the man whose name this website bears.