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19 février 2012

Hard times: US site links broke students seek with sugar daddies to pay fees

http://www.denmanchambers.com.au/dev/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/The_Australian_logo.gifBy Vinny Vella. LAST year, hundreds of female US university students joined SeekingArrangement.com, an online dating service that aims to connect older, wealthy "sugar daddies'' with younger, attractive "sugar babies'' looking to be pampered in exchange for some affection. See also LA PROSTITUTION ÉTUDIANTE: FANTASME OU RÉALITÉ.
The boom in membership was so high among female students that the website last month released a national ranking of the top 20 colleges and universities whose students joined the website in 2011
SeekingArrangement's founder, Brandon Wade, defended the information, grounding it in firsthand experience with some of the "babies.
"With the economy doing so badly, people are taking matters into their own hands, trying to figure out the best way to pay for college without creating a huge amount of debt,'' said Wade, 41, who has a 26-year-old sugar baby of his own in stunning girlfriend Tanya Kymtsova.
Wade, an MIT grad who started the website in 2005, said that the sugar babies usually join in search of a more luxurious lifestyle. Now, the website is being invaded by more pragmatic college students - women, and some guys, looking for a benefactor to pay their student loans, provide start-up capital for their businesses or help them land jobs.
Sugar babies can chat and arrange dates for free, and college-age members (who sign up with a .edu email address) get special perks like higher placement in search results.
The men seeking these women pay a $50 monthly fee, with an option of upgrading to a "premium'' account for $2,400 a year.
Each woman's account requires some basic information (name, location, age) and one piece that's a little more personal: how much money she expects to receive per date. Prices range from less than $1000 to more than $20,000. Some simply say "open for negotiation.''
"People throw the term 'prostitution' around a lot,'' Wade said. "In reality, what we're doing is not prostitution. These girls are not obligated to sleep with everyone who pays them.''
The website skirts the law by not explicitly promising money for romance, but those familiar with SeekingArrangement say that sex is often synonymous with "sugar.''
See also LA PROSTITUTION ÉTUDIANTE: FANTASME OU RÉALITÉ.

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