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This is a refreshingly honest take, love it.
The phenomenon is interesting, but the logical through line of this article is utterly tendentious:

(1) Some women hire themselves out to rich 'sugar daddies'

(2) Some of those women are professed feminists

(3) Women become 'sugar babies' because of feminism

Blaming this trend on MeToo is just bizarre. I note that (2) is a simple assertion.

Purile
Could you go beyond a one word dismissal? Who is being puerile? The author, the reader, the women selling themselves, or the men buying them? Is it better or worse than straight forward prostitution?

(I vouched for the article to bring it back from the dead, because I thought it was a well-written article about a contentious modern phenomenon. I don't much like it as a direction for society, but I think it's worth discussing rather than ignoring.)