But at what cost?Īs for Taylor’s afternoon with a man old enough to be her father, she said of the sex, “I just wanted to get it over and done with as quickly as possible. The Great Recession, a lackluster economy and the rising cost of getting a college degree have led a purportedly increasing number of students to become sex workers to escape the debt nightmare. What does she make as a sugar baby? Somewhere around $1,000 to $3,000 a month. Taylor is what’s known as a “sugar baby,” and after she listed herself on the site, she met the man who would become her sugar daddy. Take, for example, “Taylor,” a 22-year-old student whom we meet as she’s “bracing herself to endure an afternoon of sex with someone she suspected was actually about 30 years her senior.” Saddled with $15,000 in loan debt and past-due bills, Taylor discovered, a website devoted to matching college students in financial need and sugar daddies willing to pay to have sex with a young, nubile college student desperate enough to do it. According to the Huffington Post, college students are seeking sugar daddies who will hand over the big bucks that students and grads are using to pay off their enormous student loans. If that sounds too shocking to be true, it isn’t. Would you trade sex for money to pay off your college loan debt?