THE PRINT – Aug 10 – With a surge in unemployment rates and the fear of an uncertain future brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, many young Indians are turning to sugar dating. According to SeekingArrangement, Mumbai is the hotbed for sugar dating in India, with 6,246 sugar babies and 21,464 sugar daddies, followed by New Delhi with 3,447 sugar babies and 13,127 sugar daddies. Hyderabad trails closely behind with 1,218 sugar babies and 11,784 sugar daddies. SeekingArrangement launched in 2006, but the India operations are currently run out of Malaysia.
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Seeking Arrangement App Gone From the Chinese Apple App Store
REPUBLIC – Apr 20 – Seeking Arrangement is a widely popular sugar daddy dating app that was launched by MIT graduate Brandon Wade. The social networking app offers pay-to-play relationships usually between older, wealthier men, and young women. Seeking Arrangement, which was launched in China in 2015, was later removed from the iOS App Store in the country. The app had also not been available on multiple Android stores such as Tencent MyApp and 360 Mobile Assistant. After the removal, the Chinese site had been rebranded where sugar daddies and sugar mommas were called "successful people," and sugar babies were termed as "charming sweethearts". The company's spokesperson had also stated that the company looks to create a high-end marriage and love social platform for the Chinese audience, which will be different from the sugar-dating market in the US and other countries.
College Students Pay Tuition by Hooking up With Sugar Daddies and Mommas
FOX BUSINESS – Jan 15 – ~4M students are looking for generous partners through dating site Seeking Arrangement to help pay for some or part of their school bills. Of that, 62%, or 2.48M, are students in the U.S, according to the company. The site recently released its list of schools nationwide with the largest growth in new profiles. The annual list has been published as millions of Americans owe $1.5 trillion in student loan debt. Students are the top profession of "sugar babies" and 30% of sugar babies use gifts from sugar daddies and mommies to pay for tuition and other school-related expenses. Georgia State University, University of Central Florida and the University of Alabama claimed the top three spots on SeekingArrangment Sugar University.
CEO of Seeking Arrangement Offers to Pay For Abortions
DAILY WIRE – June 4 – On Tuesday, Brandon Wade, the founder of the Sugar Daddy dating site Seeking Arrangement, released a video titled, "Brandon Wade Offers to Pay For Abortions," in which he offered to pay the freight for women who need to travel to another state to have an abortion. A new Alabama law banned abortion with the exception of cases where the mother's life is in danger. He said the new law targeted the "weakest and the poorest amongst us." He claimed the new Alabama law is "designed to keep the poor, poor."
by Hank Berrien
See full article at Daily Wire
Over 300K Canadian Students Are Sugar Babies
CHARLATAN – Mar 29 – 300K Canadian university students are using a sugar dating site, Seeking Arrangement, to fund their education, according to a recent report by the company. The University of Toronto had the largest number of Canadian students signed up as sugar babies with Seeking Arrangement with 1,170 students using the service by the end of 2018 and York University coming in second. According to the report, university fees in Canada have risen 40% in the last decade.
by Haneen Al-Hassoun
See full article at Charlatan
SeekingArrangement’s Report: Universities With the Most Sugar Babies
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OX11 – Mar 12 – SeekingArrangement, the world's largest "sugar daddy" dating site, lists the "Fastest Growing Sugar Baby Schools." The company states that ~2.5M of the 20M members on the site are American college students. The report states that student loan debt in the US has quadrupled from 2004 to 2017. Additionally, the average yearly cost of tuition and fees at a public, four-year institution has more than doubled since 2001 to $9,510, according to the College Board.
Top 3 fastest growing sugar baby schools:
- Georgia State University (306 new sugar baby sign-ups in 2018, 1304 student members in 2018)
- University of Central Florida (296 new sugar baby sign-ups in 2018, 1068 student members in 2018)
- University of Alabama (270 new sugar baby sign-ups in 2018, 968 student members in 2018)
by Mary Stringini
See full article at Fox11
Sugar Dating App SugarBook to Open Office in New Zealand
NZ HERALD – Feb 23 – SugarBook runs a sugar dating app and claims to have 10K members signed up in New Zealand. Its Malaysian creator and CEO Darren Chan, 31, wants to extend its online service to set up an office in New Zealand and Australia because of the "rising trend of sugar relationships down under". Sugarbook is being watched by police in Singapore and accused of facilitating illegal prostitution in Malaysia. Another sugar dating website, SeekingArrangement, based in the US, claimed last year to have ~50K members signed up in New Zealand.
by Lincoln Tan
See full article at NZ Herald
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SeekingArrangement On The Morning Show
YAHOO NEWS – Sep 28 – SeekingArrangement.com is the controversial dating site that's connecting older rich men with attractive younger women. For the first time, the Seeking.com team is bringing their Sugar Baby Coaching Sessions to Australia. Seeking Arrangement's coaches Brook Urich and Alexis Germany talk about the involvement of being sugar daddy/baby.
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SeekingArrangement.com Goes After Alleged ‘Extortion’ Of Exposed Users
LAW.COM – Aug 18 – The suit claims that users of the site have had their photos and identities posted on PredatorExposed.com and PredatorAlerts.com, alongside allegations that they had attempted to pay for sex or made sexual advances to minors. The suit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges Arman Ali and his Bangladesh-based business D4 Solutions posed as women seeking sugar relationships to get personal information and photographs from men on SeekingArrangement.com. Men's photos, names, addresses and other identifying information were then allegedly sold to and posted on PredatorExposed.com and PredatorAlerts.com, alongside allegations that they had attempted to pay for sex or had made sexual advances to minors. The men were then "referred to the removal sites where they are told that the posting can be removed for a fee, which generally ranges from a few hundred to even thousands of dollars," the complaint states. SeekingArrangement's parent company Reflex Media said PredatorExposed.com and PredatorAlerts.com are "extortion sites" that have "caused harm to Reflex Media and the SA members". Many impacted users ended their subscription to SeekingArrangement.com.
by Caroline Spiezio
See full article at Law.com
Some ‘Sugar Daddies’ Provide Business Advice, Mentorship, And Investments
BUSINESS INSIDER – June 7 – The term "sugar dating" typically refers to a relationship in which a younger woman pairs up with an older man who can help support her financially, while she provides romantic companionship. But sugar dating can mean mentorship – without romance or sex. Some sugar daddies are open to business relationships from the beginning, and it's not uncommon for sugar babies to have entrepreneurial ambitions that they seek sugar daddies' help with.