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After a quick private message exchange, he suggested they speak on the phone. The number he gave her was the same number for Ron, Ms. Fowles’s deadbeat sugar daddy. Ms. Fowles arrived in August 2017.

“Under the banner of sugar daddy and sugar baby arrangements, a lot of prostitution may be going on,” says Ronald Weitzer, a professor of sociology at George Washington University, where he studies the sex industry. Suzanne already has an associate’s degree in elementary education from a community college in New Jersey. Unable to find a job as a teacher’s aide, she decided to enroll in paralegal classes at night.

Roberts fears arrangement-seeking websites are but another invitation for rich men to abuse young, vulnerable women. “It’s really the perfect storm of debt and a down economy, not to mention a generation of middle-class women coming of age who were raised to believed that their sexuality isn’t something to be afraid of,” says Roberts, a professor at Kingston University.

How much does seeking arrangement cost?

How long does it take for my profile to be approved? Please be patient, photos and profiles enter the approval process in the order they were received. This usually takes 24-48 hours, however if the site is experiencing a high volume, this process may take longer.

Sugar daddies are willing to pay for it. Being a sugar baby requires impersonally assessing one’s value in the sexual marketplace. It’s demeaning, but it’s nothing new (a “seven” in the city might feel like a “ten” in the suburbs). Sugaring promises to let women freely capitalize on this value, what sociologist Catherine Hakim would call their erotic capital. In her controversial 2010 book, Erotic Capital, Hakim argued that—like economic, social, or cultural capital—a person’s beauty, sex appeal, and social skills could be a boon to one’s career as much as one’s love life.

One San Francisco–based sugar daddy fondly recalled how he coached his sugar baby in salary negotiations with the tech firm she now works for. “Now, she’s got a better car service than I do! ” he says. Nearly 30 percent of workers rely on part-time or short-term jobs to make ends meet, according to Cornell University’s Institute of Labor Relations and the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work Initiative, and women are more likely than men to earn supplemental income through part-time work, especially multi-level or direct marketing and selling goods online. The line between our personal and professional lives has never been blurrier, whether we’re selling leggings to our Facebook friends or renting our personal spaces to strangers on AirBnB.

• A rare few wound up falling in love and getting married.
• The platform provides a haven where you can mix business with pleasure.
• “The women tend to be from working-class or middle-class backgrounds, but a good number are from upper-class families, too,” she says.
• Others may be entirely about companionship or platonic financial support.
• The Seeking Arrangement press kit includes a list of the schools with the most sugar babies and a pie chart detailing what sugar babies spend their money on.

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How long does it take to be approved on Seeking Arrangement?

24-48 hours

Interviews with Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies are meant to reflect individual experiences and do not necessarily reflect Refinery29’s point of view. Refinery29 in no way encourages illegal activity or harmful behavior. If I were single, I would definitely date women who are older. I was looking at older women as being tainted and having the view that life is not the greatest thing in the world.

Her pioneering work has shown that love is not an emotion but a drive, and that what we experience as love triggers the brain’s reward system in much the same way cocaine does. In the search for a desirable partner, it seems, we can’t rely on any one factor alone.

Is there a Seeking Arrangement app?

Three-month of premium membership cost $44.85, which reduces the monthly cost to $14.95. And finally, if you pay for a six-month subscription, one month will only cost you $9.95. So, we can safely state that SeekingArrangement services cost less than average in the market.

Lizzie explains that men often specify “no pros,” or “no escorts,” and try to make transactions as subtle as possible. Many daddies don’t think of themselves as the type of person who would pay for a prostitute.

The two would meet up once every few weeks, for a night out in Miami or a romantic weekend in the Caribbean. At The Huffington Post’s request, Seeking Arrangement listed the top 20 universities attended by sugar babies on the site. They compiled the list according to the number of sugar babies who registered using their .edu email addresses or listed schools’ names on their profiles. New York University tops the list with 498 sugar babies, while UCLA comes in at No. 8 with 253, and Harvard University ranks at No. 9 with 231. The University of California at Berkeley ranks at No. 13 with 193, the University of Southern California ranks at No. 15 with 183, and Tulane University ranks at No. 20 with 163 college sugar babies.