Transactional sex as a student summer job

Ads for "Sugar Daddy" hookup sites are always a little unsettling, but I think this is the fist one I've seen that comes right out and says that keeping company with an older, richer man is a job.

According to Adrants's Steve Hall, the billboard was posted in Los Angeles by ArrangementFinders, which is part of the Ashley Madison internet infidelity empire.

The woman in the billboard is Bree Olson, retired adult entertainer.

Other "Sugar Daddy" campaigns:

Apple iPayforsex?
Sugar Daddy site celebrates Women's Month
Don't let your daughters grow up to date our clients 

Don't let your daughters grow up to date our clients #FdAdFriday

Via Adrants

Established Men "is the premier online dating service that connects Young, Beautiful Women with Rich, Successful Men!"

But what exactly are they trying to say here?

Steve Hall ponders, "Is Established Men telling established men they better get their daughters to study so they can get a well-paying job and not end up on the very site daddy trolls for dates when he's feeling frisky? Or is it telling fathers they better make sure their daughters are well educated and ambitious so they *can* end up on a site like Established Men (instead of some other crappy dating site) where, seemingly, all the men are hot and she won't have to be seen with a fatty like the guy on the billboard?"

It is truly baffling. Perhaps it's the sugar daddy site's attempt at corporate social responsibility, like when tobacco companies sponsor youth anti-smoking ads?

Nah. It's just effed.

Sugar Daddy site celebrates Women's Month with a 2fer #FdAdFridays

You can't make this stuff up.

From the Press Release:

"Sugar Daddy Website Celebrates Women’s Month with an Empowering 2-For-1 Sugar Baby Offer 

March is the National Women’s Month in the United States and the United Kingdom. This year, the focus of the National Women’s History Month will be on “Women's Education and Women's Empowerment.” As the only Sugar Daddy dating website that encourages women’s education and women’s empowerment through their dating relationships, SeekingArrangement.com is celebrating this year’s Women’s History Month by offering all female members 2-for-1 discounts on any Sugar Baby or Sugar Mommy membership package."

Empowering indeed. Seeking Arrangement is an online dating service that helps attractive young women in need of money sell themselves as a "girlfriend experience" to wealthy older men.

This isn't prostitution, mind you, because these are nice girls. College girls.

"Since “Women’s Education” is the focus of this year’s Women’s Month, SeekingArrangement.com notes that over 40% of its Sugar Baby members are college students using the website as a means to pay for their college education."

Last I heard, the same could be said for 100% of strippers.

“Women are brought up in our country to believe they are princesses who will eventually meet their prince. In Disneyland, even the beast turned out to be a prince,” says [Brandon Wade, the website’s Founder & CEO] who holds a BS and MBA degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Most girls grow up realizing there is no fairytale ending. Instead of selling the princess fantasy, parents ought to empower their daughters by showing them how to be Sugar Babies and to demand more out of their personal relationships.”

So there you have it, sisters. It's all for women's empowerment.

Tip via Jezebel