Never knew that this Sugarbook existed till today.
Prostitution is illegal in Malaysia, from civil law pov. So is child marriage.
Those who voice concerns about the Sugarbook banning must have known about it all along, or are curious enough to do their research.
Sex work is dangerous by nature. Both to physical and mental health.
I mean, whatever happens behind closed doors could remain as such.
But to go up in arms defending the it as source of income for students is pure stupidity.
How long are you going to be "working" in this line? Is "starting early" giving you the heads up for your career goals?
Can you even put it in your resume?
And if you plan to be an✨entrepreneur✨, how steady is this "vocation" in providing you the capital to start own business?
For all we know, safe, protective sex is not even 100% guaranteed.
And even with no sex involved, what's to guarantee that human nature will not kick in and boredom hits?
Easy money is never easy. There's always a catch. Assuming the sugardaddies/mummies are ultra rich, beware.
There could be bounty on your head for an equally easy way out of it, just as how easy the way in is.
What about inheritance?
No amount of fast money shall be enough if the reservoir ain't big and endless.
Like diabetes, sugar(book) brings a lot of diseases.
A recent "hot topic" today is how we should maintain the identity of our mother tongue when speaking a 2nd and/or foreign language.
When highlighting this topic, the whole East vs West POV came into the picture, more specifically, of using English as 2nd language.
Understanding people's grievances (read: the colonized) towards the language of the colonizer, some, if not many of our parents anf grandparents still loathe the Japanese and the Britons, to name a few.
At the same time, from the earlier days, many of them also took up learning these colonizers' languages seriously, to the point of traveling there to complete their studies and to immerse themselves in the cultural aspect of the language.