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Sugar Daddy Website's Perfect System Breaks Down

Drew Grant — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:30:00 GMT

After reading that Times article about young, attractive women and older men with money meeting and mating on SeekingArrangement.com, I thought to myself, "I could do that, if times got hard enough (no pun intended, me)." Turns out, I couldn't. Does that make me a hypocrite?

See, I've always had this sort of salt-of-the-earth ideal of myself, that no job is beneath me and that anyone who says that they "can't" barback or be a waitress is a stuck-up brat. And if you're going to be objectified anyway at your day job, why should the social stigma of "the oldest profession in the world" keep you from making $10k a month and being treated like a princess? Especially if it was a discreet arrangement and no one ever found out, like the website touted. Didn't I once submit a set to SuicideGirls and cash that check proudly (and a little vainly) in college? Didn't I write nasty sex advice columns for Gavin McInnes? After my full-time job folded and I ran out of cash, I thought, it's time to put my mouth where the money is.

But after I signed up for the site, created a fake name and an alias e-mail address to talk to these Sugar Daddies, I found myself unable to go through with the actual meeting. Something just struck me as indefinably sad about men who wanted to pay me for my company, and trying to imagine myself boning them made me sneer. I did, indeed, feel like I was above that. Fuck. I'm such a jerk.

And although most women my age would breath a sigh of relief at finding out they couldn't go through with semi-anonymous prostitution, I just got angry at myself. Even more perplexing, I got angry at these guys who were going to pay me money, because they were the Haves and I was a Have-Not. And apparently I'm not the only one to feel this way: Stephen Dent, heir to the DuPont fortune, got bilked for over $299k on SeekingArrangements after being blackmailed three times by three separate women. Which doesn't include the $200k he spent on women from the site who didn't end up trying to steal his family jewels.

Both Dent and these blackmailers seem equally reprehensible, which shows the fatal flaw in SeekingArrangement's promise of a pampered life: In the end, the men and women you meet on these sites aren't looking for a connection. They don't care if you like them or not, if you find them attractive or sexy. They merely want to exchange sex for money, but with all the formal trappings of a romantic excursion. That means you just don't get to have sex with an old, married guy for money; you have to go out for drinks with him first, sit there and nod, pretend to be interested, and waste a whole night with the kind of boss you'd usually sue for sexual harassment. That to me was 100% more distasteful than the act itself.

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Sloppy Seconds: Kanye West Dresses Better Than the Gays

Emily Farris — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:01:00 GMT

It turns out T.R. Knight isn't the only actor leaving the cast of Grey's Anatomy. Katherine Heigl is on her way out, too. [Defamer]

Rihanna, who was allegedly beat-up by her boyfriend Chris Brown, has been released from the hospital but is postponing a show she's set to play in Malaysia. [Yahoo!]

We're totally onboard for the Michael Phelps backlash-backlash. [Jossip]

Want to know what the hell kind of fertility clinic would inseminate a 33-year-old single mother of six with eight fucking more babies? [SNAFU-ed]

Britney Spears took her assistant back from the Jonas Brothers. Damn straight. [Us]

Media outlets are looking for sugar daddies to get them through the recession. Come to think of it, we wouldn't mind one, either. [DailyIntel]

Guys, Kanye West is just really secure with his manhood, okay? "There's a lot of gay people that I dress way better than." [MTV]

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High Class College Hooker: No One Understands Me

Scanner Matt — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:23:00 GMT

A Pennsylvania college student has recently written a very detailed account of what she calls her "mutually beneficial arrangement," but we call blatant prostitution.

The Daily Beast ran an essay last week written by a young woman who sees turning "classy" tricks as the best way to deal with college debt and making connections to benefit her non-hookerish career.

From the outside, a mutually beneficial, or sugar daddy, relationship seems immoral. Maybe even the distant cousin of—dare I say it?—prostitution. But truth be told, women have used their wiles and charms to get ahead for years.

We assume she's watched Pretty Woman one too many times (we still can't believe people like that fucked-up movie).

After she published her piece many readers commented, criticizing her as a two-bit call girl. So now she's back again defending her whorish ways in response to her judgemental public.

We know college is ridiculously expensive and some miserable marriages may arguably fall under the unintentional arrangement of prostitution, we've also read Madame Bovary, but in this case the line does not look as blurry as this young coed would like, especially when she talks about her, "new killer wardrobe."

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Bacon-Infused Cocktail Made Us Orgasm Just Reading About It

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:18:00 GMT

Summer's almost over, which means it's time to drink heavily and balloon up for the unbearable winter months. A good way to start is with this monster of an Old Fashioned: it involves bacon, maple syrup, and about a bucket o' whiskey...

Start your week right with the recipe, after the jump:

PDT’s Bacon-Infused Old Fashioned

FOR THE BOURBON- BACON INFUSION:
3 or 4 slices bacon, or enough to render 1 ounce of fat (PDT uses Benton’s, but any extra-smoky variety will do)
1 750-ml. bottle of bourbon such as Four Roses Yellow Label

FOR THE OLD FASHIONED:
2 ounces bacon-infused bourbon
1/4 ounce Grade B maple syrup
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Twist of orange

FOR THE BACON-INFUSED BOURBON: Cook bacon in pan and reserve rendered fat. (1) When bacon fat has cooled a bit, pour off one ounce from pan. (2) Pour bourbon into a non-porous container. (3) Strain the bacon fat into the container and infuse for 4 to 6 hours at room temperature. Place mixture in freezer until all the fat is solidified. With a slotted spoon, remove fat and strain mixture back into bottle.
FOR THE COCKTAIL: In mixing glass, stir 2 ounces bacon-infused bourbon, maple syrup, and bitters with ice. Strain into chilled rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with orange twist.

We hope someone can come up with a way to meld the two drinks into one so we can have maple syrup and bacon with our whiskey, but there's always the ol' Pancakes and Booze Breakfast, which explains our ability to sift through the New York magazine website, from whence this recipe came...

While you're at it, check out the How To video here.

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I Found My Sugardaddie and So Can You!

Emily Farris — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:01:00 GMT

We're done trying to meet successful, intelligent men at the library. We just found sugardaddie.com, "where the classy, attractive and affluent meet."

Seriously, thank goodness for MySpace ads or we'd never have found out about this, and him, our future Sugardaddie:

Do you think he'll take us to see Hall and Oates in Atlantic City in April? And hey, if it doesn't work out with this guy, Eliot Spitzer might be single soon.

[sugardaddie.com]

Mother Jones Journalist Undercover With the Sugar Daddies. (No, Not Like That.)

Bryan Christian — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:00:00 GMT

The best thing you're gonna read today -- other than this blog, natch! -- is this icky and amusing expose of the world of the sugar daddy by Mother Jones writer Nicole McClelland. (We looked for it on the Mother Jones website, btw, but it wasn't there.)

I learned about SugarDaddy.com when an acquaintance I'll call "Kim" recommended it to my friend, who's had trouble finding a job despite (or because of) earning her master's in media arts several months ago. Kim collected $900 every time she went on a date with one of her sugar daddies; another gave her $3,500 in less than a week before announcing that he had to quit her because his wife had found out. Kim's best friend "Jill" had two sugar daddies giving her a combined $8,000 a month until one got jealous of the other. Jill has blond hair, amazing lips, and is 19.

Not even the best part of the article. That would involve an old rich dude known only as "Do You Like Anal" -- no question mark, we're presuming, because he's paying to already know the answer.

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