Strapped for cash? Highly educated? School loans? In your twenties?

Have no fear, Seeking Arrangement is here!

Seeking Arrangement, along with other websites such as Seeking Tuition and Sugar Daddy Meet aid many female students with thousands of dollars in order to pay for school. On the downside, you’ll have to be a sugar baby.

In the past couple of years, students have seen tuition rates skyrocket. Unable to keep pace with increased cost, many have started to work as sugar babies since the pay is so high. After a girl signs up on any of the various “connecting” sites, she is able to contact rich and old men who are seeking companionship. Each meetup can include simply talking, sitting by the pool in a bathing suit, or more often, sex. Most of the women are in their early twenties and in the case of Seeking Arrangement, 35 percent of their members are students. The website also rewards members who sign up with a .edu email address by giving them a premium membership which will boost them to the top of the search results and label their profile as “college sugar baby.”

So where do these .edu members come from?

According to the owners of the site, Georgia State University ranks at the top in sugar baby memberships. Arizona State ranks second, and Indiana University ranks ninth. Although Columbia University is the only Ivy League school to lie in the top twenty list, Cornell University has had an 85 percent increase in sugar baby memberships.

Interestingly, Seeking Arrangement does not fall under penalty of law for prostitution. In fact, their website states they do not condone prostitution or escort services and would shut down any profiles that exhibit such activity. The fact that the site does not explicitly sell sex, but arranges “companionships” in which the older gentleman showers the young lady with money, allows it to not be considered as a prostitution site.

Some arrangements are a one time deal while others are ongoing relationships. Many women often have the first meeting at a public space and then go on a couple more dates. A woman who goes under the pseudonym, Suzanne, regularly met with a college professor from Dover, N.J in which he would cook for her and then they would have sex afterward. Each date earned approximately 400 to 500 dollars.

While some commentators and researchers grant that technically, it is not prostitution in the legal sense, many find that it falls in a grey area or is simply prostitution in denial.

Perhaps the fact that women are selling “companionship” to rich old men is indicative that tuition costs may be unreasonably high. Perhaps Seeking Arrangement truly is a prostitution site. It will be a while before such questions are put to bed.