Poverty Drives Girls to Sugar Daddies

Over the past few weeks, I have been observing and trying to find out what forces our youthful girls to get involved in ‘touch and go’ relationships with sugar daddies.

Most young girls are being used by sugar daddies simply because of poverty and intellectual weaknesses. Our government should act on this to make sure that our girls are protected by introducing awareness campaigns. Youth in this country are suffering. Nobody speaks about these things.

One can imagine, a youthful girl forced by her poor living standards to sleep with a man who is the same age as her father. We have no frivolous activities or the infrastructure to ensure positive use of leisure time in most of the regions where people can come together.

Our girls should also seek information from their parents, it can’t be correct that you should date every man who has money. It’s very shameful to see that even people who are well equipped with knowledge are practicing something like this.

Girls should also learn to live within their means. How do you make love with someone of your father’s age? You just meet the person for the first time, you don’t know the person, yet you are already calling that daddy ‘Bae’. It’s inhuman. You must focus on your future and do right things.

It is even shameful just to see that some girls go with sugar daddies for drinks (alcohol). In a real sense now, you are exchanging your body for alcohol. Meaning your body is worth a bottle of Hunters Dry? Get real, my peer girls. Life could be sweet when you are out with your sugar daddies, but after that night, you will regret it.

Let’s choose wisely. Let alcohol not to choose for us.

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