My Sugar Daddy Experience

So lately I have been looking for a new place to live, since my lease is up at the end of June and my roommates and I have decided not to re-up our lease. Ever since I moved out of my mom's house when I was 20, I have dreamed about living in a little studio or one bedroom apartment all on my own. So this is what I have been looking for in my current housing search. Unfortunately for me, I live in one of the most expensive areas of California, so a single small studio in my college town costs upward of $800. Seriously?! I'm a college student; I work a lot and have a pretty good job all things considered, and I still cannot afford that kind of living unless I take out mass quantities of loans, and I refuse to end up in debt from student loans simply to pay my rent in a dinky little studio apartment. I have more pride than that.

So one night I was bored at work (hopefully my bosses won't read this!) and I got on the computer and started checking out Sugar Daddy websites. For those of you who may not know, a Sugar Daddy is a man who is too rich for his own good, and wants to find a "sugar baby" that he can spend his money on and spoil. The catch is that the expectation is that he will get a beautiful, sexy, young girlfriend who is willing to give him sex and be his arm candy in exchange for said monetary benefits. As nice as it sounds to have someone else pay my rent for me, my moral compass steers me clear from a situation in which I'm basically being paid for sex... my prior knowledge would be tempted to call that "prostitution"...

So anyways, I decide to register for a couple of these sites, throw on some professional photos courtesy of my best friend/photographer which make me look far more stunning than I may actually be. What the heck; it's free! So I create these profiles, send them in to get approved, and sit back to see what kind of catches are gonna find me attractive. And, much to my excitement, I start getting emails to my personal email address alerting me about messages from guys in my area and in surrounding areas with titles in the subject lines telling me I'm perfect and asking where I've been. So I'm like, "Sweet, there are actually rich men interested in me!"... not that I actually have any plan of getting involved with any of them, I just want to see who they are. So I navigate to the Sugar Daddy website and click on the first email... and get redirected to a screen that says I need to upgrade my membership in order to read my mail.

What. The. Hell.

The whole reason I'm on a damn Sugar Daddy website is because I have no money and need someone to pay my bills! If I could afford to pay for a monthly membership to this site, I wouldn't need a Sugar Daddy in the first place! So needless to say, I rebelled against the system and did not pay to upgrade my membership. But I kept getting emails from guys wanting to meet me and such, which were obviously going unanswered, so they must have thought I was some kind of stuck-up bitch who thought she was too good to talk to them. When in fact I'm just too poor to talk to them.

Guess I should start looking at Craigslist for people who are looking for someone to split half of a 10x10 room with them, since that's all I'll be able to afford...