{"id":19273,"date":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/more-students-turning-to-sugar-daddies-to-cover-costs\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","slug":"more-students-turning-to-sugar-daddies-to-cover-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/more-students-turning-to-sugar-daddies-to-cover-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"More students turning to \u201csugar daddies\u201d to cover costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A growing number of Australian university students are turning to \u201csugar daddies\u201d to relieve the pressures of rising education and lifestyle costs, according to a website that facilitates the relationships.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seekingarrangement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to SeekingArrangement.com<\/a>, 144 university students in Victoria have currently listed themselves as prospective \u201csugar babies\u201d on the website \u2013 an increase of 34 per cent since last year.<\/p>\n<p>The website describes sugar babies as \u201cattractive people looking for the finer things in life\u201d and sugar mummies and daddies as \u201csuccessful men and women who know what they want\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get a lot of positive experiences and feedback,\u201d SeekingArrangement spokeswoman Ms Urick said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a growing lifestyle \u2014 a couple of years ago maybe some people think it wouldn\u2019t catch on but now there are five million people worldwide who are signed up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"More students turning to \u201csugar daddies\u201d to cover costs | FIVEAA\" title=\"More students turning to \u201csugar daddies\u201d to cover costs | FIVEAA\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/seekingarrangement.jpeg\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>SeekingArrangement.com founder Brandon Wade with Tanya Wade | Image | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/leader\/west\/victoria-university-students-sign-up-as-sugar-babies-on-seekingarrangementcom\/news-story\/391d56cb95d5b7fba2034dd90197431b?utm_content=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=EditorialSF&amp;utm_source=HaraldSun&amp;utm_medium=Facebook\" target=\"_blank\">News Ltd<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3>An 18-year-old student who joined the site says the money she has earned from just having dinner with a businessman under 40 has helped her pay for textbooks.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI would say he is like a close friend \u2014 we talk about everything,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/leader\/west\/victoria-university-students-sign-up-as-sugar-babies-on-seekingarrangementcom\/news-story\/391d56cb95d5b7fba2034dd90197431b?utm_content=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=EditorialSF&amp;utm_source=HaraldSun&amp;utm_medium=Facebook\" target=\"_blank\">she told the Herald Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dinners are quite lavish \u2014 I see a new part of Melbourne when we go out together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I go out with him, I live his lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not so much materialistic as having someone you get along with and he really wants to help me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The website claims to be a place where \u201cbeautiful, successful people fuel mutually beneficial relationships\u201d, which it says may be sexual in nature but don\u2019t have to be.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think \u2013 win\/win, or is there something wrong here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/financial-guru-predicts-massive-australian-property-crash-next-year\">FINANCIAL GURU PREDICTS MASSIVE CRASH IN AUSTRALIA NEXT YEAR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/mark-robinson-defends-attack-on-media-rivals-after-garry-lyon-drama\">ROBBO ATTACKS RIVALS IN WAKE OF GARRY LYON DRAMA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of Australian university students are turning to \u201csugar daddies\u201d to relieve the pressures of rising education and lifestyle costs, according to a website that facilitates the relationships. 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