Ugh, did we all really need to read 7 pages about SeekingArrangement.com in today's Times? Blurgh, we all know that sugar daddies and sugar "babies" exist (like that terminology isn't creepy enough, did the Times have to legitimize it?), but please don't dress the site up in 1,000 word essay and call it sociology. Just because prostitution happens on the web and we call it something doesn't mean we can put lipstick on a pig or whatever.

About 30 percent of arrangements on the site involve the daddy paying an “allowance,” usually a thousand or two a month, though the site claims some reach $10,000. The rest provide the baby with incidental cash, shopping sprees, gifts, travel or the fleeting illusion that theirs is a high-end, easy life. “I get flown to whatever city I want,” wrote a North Carolina college student, who goes by the name gurlnextdoor on the site’s blog, a mix between an online support group and a kaffeeklatsch. “He pays for it, takes me shopping, we talk, laugh, go out to eat and do whatever we want to do for our days together. . . . I don’t bring up mundane problems about my home life, and he does the same. . . . If I wanted someone to talk to about my life problems, I’d get a boyfriend or a therapist.”

Please let this site turn out to be a joke that the Times fell for, like the DABA girls.