With the news that Madonna gives her boytoy Jesus Luz a $10,000 monthly allowance, we got to thinking about which famous people we'd like to keep us on retainer.
A few websites exist that want to put gold diggers and sugar daddies together. One of those sites, SeekingArrangements.com, was featured in the New York Times over the weekend. Finally, technology is doing something that older, rich men used to have to do manually.
When you hold a student loan large enough to cancel out third-world debt and regularly wear second-hand clothes, it’s not unusual to dream up ways to improve your financial lot. Some women fantasize about a rich Prince Charming sweeping them off their feet, but I’ve never been one to imagine romance as a means to financial success. Women who use sex to lure the wealthy have always seemed to me like swindlers who disgrace the female gender and kill the spirit of love. Then along came a man who said those four little words every woman supposedly wants to hear. “Can I keep you?” I met the Professor, a political science scholar and ‘60s era activist, years ago at an academic conference. He was a lanky man with bulbous eyes, a silver mane of oddball-academic hair and a slobbery old guy mouth he kept dabbing with a handkerchief. Not exactly Robert Redford in a tux.
Have you ever thought that it might just be easier to drop out of your masters program and start sleeping with older men for money? If you have, you're not alone. An intrepid writer decided to go into the mile-a-minute world of online sugar daddies. It turns out that they're not all Richard Gere (in a bad way). So, an attractive woman has a choice; work hard and make peanuts or have some slob push on and off of you for $100,000 a year.
