He was tall and handsome—exactly like his profile picture on the website he messaged Ashley ona few days earlier. He said he was 28 on his profile, and, to Ashley, he looked it. The pair went for coffee nearby. He told Ashley, a senior in The College of Visual and Performing Arts, about his job as a commercial pilot, which allows him to travel around the country.
Sugar daddies are usually wealthy older men who give younger women—sugar babies—financial support in exchange for companionship. Most of the time, this companionship includes sex.
This kind of relationship is supposed to be mutually beneficial. Sugar babies like Ashley, get financial security. Sugar daddies—and mommas—get attention and—most of the time—sex from a younger partner. Ashley met the pilot on Seeking Arrangement. Seeking Arrangement is like online dating but has different terms and its own set of rules. Sometimes that involves fixed monthly allowances or gifts in exchange for time spent together. Seeking Arrangement overtly and directly markets itself toward college students.
Over 1 million student sugar babies were on the site in , according to Seeking Arrangement data. A spokesperson from Seeking Arrangement said she could not provide exact data about how many SU students are on Seeking Arrangement. He was moving to San Diego at the end of month, and Ashley already had a long-distance sugar daddy once before—a year-old lawyer and investment banker from New York City.
They saw each other for almost a year, during which he was married but separated from his wife. Even though Ashley met the lawyer on Seeking Arrangement, she calls him her ex-boyfriend, not her ex-sugar daddy.
