This article is revolved around a website that sets up "mutually beneficial relationships." It has become very popular recently and lots of young female university students have been part of it to get get money from rich, old, succesful men in exchange for "relationships." The website is called Seeking Arrangement and explains with examples how this website works like. He says that this website covers the fact that they are promoting prostitution "benefiting" young girls with money and the old, successful people with a young intelligent dates. He criticizes this website and say they try to hide the concept of paying for sex, but that is what is usually happening in this website. The author also spends some time explaining how these men do not primarily look at apperances when searching for a date. He gives examples of young girls that did not consider themselves attractive that got dates because of there intelligence. They say they choose someone intelligent to make it something more "real," make the date more than just sex. They want someone to understand what they do, someone to go with them in business trips and someone that know about intellectual things. This dating website is a way of making the young girl's life easier with a small cost.
The author is very succesful with this article. He starts with an example that illustrates the life of a young girl in this program. This intro is very succesful because it gives a heads up of what the article is about and it kind of shocks the reader giving curiosity. He does a good job of first defining the "problem" and then giving proof and examples of how it is bad. The examples help the reader understand the program a little better and helps the message he is wanting to transmit more clear.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/how-sugar-daddies-are-financing-college-education/379533/?single_page=true
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