Is state-financed sex work possible? This question has been recently debated in Australia when on the Australian Defence Force website an article since removed because of protest was published arguing that sex during deployment releases stress and makes it easier for soldiers to cope with difficult circumstances of war and violence.
The protest led by wives of the deployed ADF members stopped this process of redefining sex as an entitlement for the privileged citizens selected by the state, but some European Union citizens were not that successful in their efforts to resist these new tendencies. It is not as if they were not protesting. The sugar-daddy financial scheme , which involves rich, married, elderly men buying young, beautiful and single women for their entertainment, is a necessary result of social inequalities.
The new element of this model is that due to the structure of the US higher education system this financial scheme is also used by mostly female university students to pay for their student loans, and the money earned this way becomes a normalized income maximization strategy. This scheme, as a result of impoverishing the welfare state and a decrease of public funding in the higher education, has now reached the European Union.
While in France and Belgium these sugar-daddy sites are facing legal action initiated by government officials, in Hungary the situation is very different. This sex business has been flourishing for decades in Hungary with one key element being a part of this informal social contract.
These advertisements were publicly mocking women who are still working instead of serving rich men where they could earn much more.
