QQ MAGAZINE – Mar 2 - SeekingArrangement.com is a dating site set up by 41-year-old MIT graduate Brandon Wade in 2006 that acts as a "fixer" for "modern sugar daddies" and "goal-seeking sugar babies". The site has now ~ 600K paying members. Many claiming these "arrangements" amount to little more than solicitation and prostitution. "The site started because of my own personal frustrations with meeting women online," Brandon explains. "I wanted to create a site where I could meet beautiful, open-minded women – simple as that. The stereotypical notions of gold-digging women and lecherous old men just don't apply any more." Over 80% of female members online have a college degree – these women aren't dumb. They all have goals. "Gentlemen are a dying breed, especially in America. There's this feeling that women have gone through a lot to fight for feminist rights, and now they are, indeed, equals. But they've lost something along the way. In becoming equals, so the etiquette of being a traditional gentleman – standing up when they enter, opening doors, paying for dinner on the first date – has been lost. This is what draws a lot of women to the site, and I think being taken care of by a stronger man is – deep down – what a lot of women really long for."
by Jonathan Heaf
The full article was originally published at QQ Magazine, but is no longer available.
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HUFFINGTON POST – Mar 29 – Angeleno "daddies" spend more sugar on their "babies" than anywhere else in the U.S., according to five years of mostly self-reported data from SeekingArrangement.com. Angeleno sugar daddies spend an average of $5,710 a month towards gifts, travel, dining, shopping and allowances for their ladies. Nationally, daddies only spend an average of $4,357 a month on their sugar addictions. There are ~2.31 sugar daddies for every 1K men in LA, their average age is 41, and they rake in an average of $415K a year with a net worth of $8M, according to the site.
