Site helps coeds find "sugar daddies" to pay for college

Man, business, suit, generic, thumbs up, bills / CBS News

This matchmaking website doesn't sugarcoat its intentions - it will pair college students with wealthier men willing to finance their education for companionship.

SeekingArrangement.com calls itself the "Elite Sugar Daddy Dating Site for those Seeking Mutually Beneficial Arrangements." As a free member one can either browse for "Sugar Babies" or "Gentlemen."

"I have disposable income," Joe Fazio explained to CBS Chicago affiliate WBBM-TV. "And I want your companionship. Financially, you're in a situation where you want more."

WBBM-TV's Dana Kozlov took a look at one these so-called "mutually beneficial" arrangements. Jessica - not her real name - is a 21-year-old college senior from Chicago's suburbs who says she doesn't consider it prostitution. (Fazio is not her sugar daddy.)

"I call it a beneficial relationship," she said.

She told the station the physical aspects of the relationship aren't discussed at first, but that comes later.

A screenshot of SeekingArrangement.com

/ CBS Chicago

"It boosts up the price. It always gets more money," she said. The student, slated to graduate this year, said she's had three sugar daddies and has gotten anywhere between $500 and $5,000 a month.

Jessica is part of a growing number of college students who are turning to the site to help bay tuition and other expenses, according the website's founder, Brandon Wade.

Wade says that in the Chicago area alone, he sees a 46 percent growth in the number of students signing up from the year before. There are 99 students from the University of Illinois-Chicago now on the site, compared to 47 a year ago.

He insists, however, there is a clear line between SeekingArrangement.com and prostitution.

"We've drawn a very clear line by saying that if you're paying simply for sex, that is not clearly permitted."

Harold Krent, dean of the Kent College of Law, says the promise of financial gain is not against the law, but the site is "thinly veiled."

Watch the full report on CBSChicago.com

[bewitched229]

Oh please. I'm married, monogamous, and female. And I'm still paying off college loans. I assure you, I would have not thought twice about doing this in college. Companionship with someone that is older, has his act together, is established, isn't going to act like a drunken frat boy? Count me in! You can call it whatever you want. I call it a win-win.

[AttyFAM]

Bravo. Most of the responses here are from males brought up to think of women as either virgins or ******, rather than as real human beings. Too many men objectify women, then fail to understand their actions.

NOBODY says he believes in monogamous sex. First, there is nothing about this article that indicates that the woman or the man is not monogamous in these relationships. He is making a presumption. Second, monogamy may be what Americans spout, but they do not necessarily act on. Perhaps NOBODY should read: The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People by David P. Barash, Ph.D., Judith Eve Lipton.

Third, how does this differ relationship from a man helping his girlfriend out financially, or a woman who marries for financial security? Our society has blindly drawn lines that are mostly based on male fears of female sexual freedom.

[bdsnyder1]

Let's call a spade a spade it is just legal prostitution. It is just sad that after all the battles for equal pay and women's liberation back in the 60's and 70's that today's college girls will ***** themselves to a sugardaddy.

[Stephen_Dedalus]

I like how the picture at the top has all those ones and fives. Perhaps instead of "sugar daddies" "college" should be in quotes.

[numbers71]

If it smells like prostitution, it probably is.

[MIO42]

It's not really prostitution
It just has a Rider Attached

[aintfakin]

mgunn89512 replies: Marriage is prostitution.
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that is a laugh
wedding cake has been proven to decrease a woman's sexual desire by 90 percent

[littleredtop]

The site provides a win-win opportunity. Those girls are going to have sex anyway so it might just as well be with a rich old guy.

[aintfakin]

Nobodyhasthisname says:
Yah, It's prostitution. So what. It should be legal anyway.
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heartily agree
a natural act made dirty by organized religion.
If more men were getting laid there would be a lot less tension in the world. Look at B itch McConnel. If that guy ever had sex with someone other than himself it would have to have been with a captive animal.

[Ulgnud]

Yes it is prostitution.

[FormerUSMCSergeant]

mgunn89512 replies: Marriage is prostitution.
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Would you care to expound?

[Bojax39]

FormerUSMCSergeant says: "Would you care to expound?"

Sure. For some, the difference between a few bucks on the nightstand and a gold ring on the finger is merely the length of time being paid for.