Skint students seeking sugar daddies
Students across the country have found the answer to financial hardship, and it’s not student loans or part time jobs.
Seeking Arrangement is used by rich businessmen with an average income of £170,000 a year. Young women, known on the site as “Sugar babies” can sign up for free if they sign up with their uni email address. Unsurprisingly this has enticed hundreds of cash-strapped students to the website, and Seeking Arrangement claims 100 of these student Sugar Babies attend QUB.
In exchange for a relationship, the girls are lavished with gifts and even cash allowances. The average female student on the site receives £5000 a month.
A survey last year revealed 80% of matches on SeekingArrangement involve sex. But its founder Brandon Wade denied it was a form of prostitution.
He said: “Because the relationship between a sugar daddy and a sugar baby is romantic in nature, most sugar relationships will likely involve ‘sex’ … And because a sugar daddy is expected to be the generous gentleman, ‘money’ will always be spent on the sugar baby. I don’t see anything wrong (or illegal) with that!”
WHICH UK UNIS HAVE THE MOST SUGAR BABIES?
1. University of Kent – 208
2. University of Nottingham – 195
3. University of Manchester – 175
4. University of Cambridge – 166
5. University of Leeds – 143
6. University of St. Andrews – 141
7. University of Bristol – 134
8. University of Exeter – 122
9. University of Northampton – 117
10. University of Westminster – 110
11. Queens University of Belfast -100
12. University of Arts London – 89
13. University of Essex – 83
14. London School of Economics – 72
15. Glasgow Caledonian University -65
16. Goldsmith University of London – 61
17. King’s College London – 59
18. University of Ulster – 54
19. University of Worcester – 51
20. Swansea University – 49
What do you think? How strapped for cash would you have to be to become a ‘sugar baby’ to a rich stranger? Leave us a comment or tweet us your thoughts @TheTabBelfast