WELCOME TO the Sugar Daddy Recession. “Call it what you like — an arrangement, a delicate excuse for sex work or modern love at its most upfront — there are hundreds of thousands of men all over the world looking for it, and as the job market explodes, more and more women are desperate enough to take them up on it. The women call themselves sugar babies; men like Rian are known as sugar daddies.”

Love in the era of Hope And Change. Just don’t call them sluts.