By Amanda Marcotte / Alternet
Soaring tuition rates are causing a number of reactions from the public: concern for young people saddled with ever-growing debt, anger at governments for cutting back on education instead of taxing the rich appropriately, calls for system-wide reform to help restore America’s global competitiveness. But some see it as an opportunity to market sexual services to men who find the idea of college women in dire economic straights to be arousing.
The leading company in this market recently sent out a glowing press release -- heavy with sexist, outdated terms like “coed" -- applauding the explosion of desperate college students and letting its customers know that the pool of available sex workers had grown tremendously. It particularly recommended universities in California as a place where the market is flooded with young women who are willing to pretend to like having sex with you in exchange for the kind of financial relief that used to be the government’s responsibility.For example, UC Berkley experienced a 67% growth and UC Davis experienced a 220% growth, earning them spots among the "Fastest Growing Sugar Baby Schools of 2012."