Parents! If you have not heard of Sugar Baby dating, you need to learn about it now, especially if you have a child in college or one headed that way. With the rising cost of college tuition and living, unfortunately, many of our college students are looking at inappropriate ways to make ends meet. To be blunt, no sugar coating: this is sex for hire! It is prostitution without a pimp. And the activity is attracting some of our finest youth.

Sugar Baby Websites

Sugar Baby dating websites are trending in the dating world. They operate like your average dating sites, but they are set up for older, well-off parties seeking young and cash-strapped guys and gals. What could go wrong? These sites operate like escorts without a third party. Each sugar dating site is a little different; however, Sugar Daddy and Sugar Baby negotiate terms of an arrangement. One site is even called What’s Your Price! On What’s Your Price, Sugar Babies don’t need to negotiate. They list their price, and Sugar Daddies scroll through the Sugar Babies and bid on the person of their choice. Consenting adults will do what they do, but young, broke college students, desperate for cash, may be pulled into things they didn’t agree to do.

Another website notorious for Gen-Z making a quick buck selling themselves is OnlyFans. This UK-based website allows anyone to post explicit content and sets up a paywall for fans to have private access. Again, what could go wrong? You must be 18 and older to post or be a fan, but many underage teens are gaining access. According to law enforcement, OnlyFans is actively used by human traffickers and other criminals.

Sugar Babies in Georgia

Is Sugar Baby dating really a threat to be concerned about in Georgia? Well, Georgia State University was named one of the top Universities for Sugar Babies. Over 1,300 students are enrolled on Sugar Baby dating sites, according to a 2019 statistic. By now, the numbers must be much higher. Also, in 2019, 2.5 million college students nationwide were members of SeekingArrangement, just one of several sugar dating sites.

Is college tuition worth selling oneself? Once a student begins to profit from this type of self-exploitation, they may never pursue their chosen field of study, making college pointless. And the situation begs the question—where are the universities and colleges in all of this? Whatever the answer is, it is obvious that the solution does not lie with them.

Parents Be Alert and Take Action

Parents, please do some online research for ways to block and filter the devices your kids and teens are using. Bark is a great company for protecting kids online. (bark.us).   Monitoring and tracking will be more challenging for college-aged kids, so parents, please openly talk with your teens and college kids about money, budgeting, and paying for tuition wisely. And don’t be shy about talking about sugar baby dating. If you don’t, someone else might.

Activities that encourage anyone to exploit themselves for profit are destroying our culture and the future of the next generation.

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