Cambridge students flock to ‘sugar daddy’ site…but Oxford shuns it

They are supposed to be our puritanical twin, shunning sex in favour of science.

But Cambridge students are ditching their prudishness – in return for cash.

A total of 168 female students from the Other Place have joined ‘sugar daddy’ site SeekingArrangement.com.

More Cambridge students have joined the website – which matches rich older men with good-looking students – than any other uni.

80% of relationships on the site involve sex

Meanwhile, Oxford isn’t even in the top 20. Brookes sits in seventh place with 150.

SeekingArrangement is used by rich businessmen with an average income of £170,000 a year. Sugar babies can sign up for free if they sign up with their uni email address.

In exchange for a relationship, they 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!”

TOP 20 FASTEST GROWING SUGAR BABY UNIS, DETERMINED BY NUMBER OF NEW SIGN-UPS IN 2012:

1 University of Cambridge – 168
2 London School of Economics – 163
3 University of Kent – 160
4 University of Nottingham – 155
5 Glasgow Caledonian University – 154
6 University of Southampton – 153
7 Oxford Brooks University – 150
8 University of Edinburgh – 148
9 University of St. Andrews – 147
10 University College London – 140
11 Brunel University, London – 137
12 University of East London – 136
13 University of Manchester – 134
14 Goldsmith, University of London – 133
15 University of Exeter – 129
16 Queens University Belfast – 120
17 University of Westminster – 115
18 University of Leeds – 98
19 University of Surrey – 96
20 London South Bank University – 89