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Rise of youth looking for sugar mummies

Skimming through the hookup section of newspapers nowadays, you will most likely see a young man in his early 20s looking for a sugar mummy. Gone are the days when this ilk of young men would go about this deplorable life covertly. They do call radio stations and unashamedly declare that they want a financially stable woman, and oddly, old enough to be their grandmothers.

Social media pages have taken the hint and started advertising women looking for young men. Most of them are well endowed both bodily and financially, as the pages claim, and are looking for ‘strong young men,’ for sex in exchange for money. Some will claim of 'successful businesses' or that their husbands are away. 

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