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Belgians Charge CEO Recruiting âSugar Babiesâ with âIncitement to Debaucheryâ
A Norwegian CEO who ran poster campaigns trying to recruit young women to become âsugar babiesâ to older men outside university campuses has been charged with âpublic incitement to debaucheryâ in Belgium.
Sigurd Vedal, 47, began his âRich Meet Beautifulâ website in Scandinavia, launching a recruitment drive to expand the business in Belgium in 2018 with a promise to provide young when with a âFifty Shades of Greyâ experience, according to the Guardian.
Vedal placed billboards recruiting for the website near university campuses, causing the UniversitĂŠ Libre de Bruxelles to complain.
âWe presumed the existence of a sexual counterpart to the registration on this site,â a spokesman for the institution told the newspaper.
âThe message is: âyouâre young, youâre beautiful, go out with a sugar daddy!â Everyone understands what itâs about,â they added.
In response, the Belgian authorities are now charging the CEO with violating anti-sexism laws, debauchery, and public incitement to debauchery.
Vedalâs lawyer Eric Cusas said Rich Meet Beautiful was not about sex, describing it as âa specialised site aimed at bringing certain people together with a nice physique and others who are well-offâ and insisting that any perceived sexual element was âonly in the eye of the observerâ.
Some of the posters show a woman lying prone in her bra with her eyes closed and her mouth open, with a shirtless man bearing down on top of her from behind.
Vedal has also run poster campaigns in the United Kingdom, targeting universities including the City of London Law School, London School of Economics (LSE), and Kings College London in an attempt to recruit 100,000 users.
âItâs disgusting. It should be illegal for these perverts to pray on youngsters like this,â a student at one of the universities told MailOnline.
âUniversity is expensive, we all know that, and Iâm in a massive amount of debt.
âBut me and my friends would never turn to prostitution in order to reduce that, and these sorts of websites are tantamount to that â itâs exploitative and wrong,â she said.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/08/belgians-charge-ceo-recruiting-sugar-babies-incitement-debauchery/