30 Jul

I tried a sugar-baby dating site, and you wouldn’t believe my stories

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SeekingArrangement’s “sugar baby university” campaign encourages college students to join the service as a way of combating student debt. Approximately 3 million college students in the United States are registered on SeekingArrangement, making up about 37 percent of the more than 8 million sugar baby users. The next few people who reached out to me through Seeking Arrangement were not up my alley. One man complained that his disability made it difficult for him to pick up women.

For many sugar babies, and for many college students like Brian and Emily, Seeking Arrangement is a way to provide a steady flow of financial income when other options have proven insufficient. It’s a source of means.

How much do Sugar Babies make a month?

The phenomenon of men with power and money using those aspects to attract women is certainly nothing new. Dr. Kyle Livie, a cultural historian and Associate Professor of History at Ohlone College, says that at the end of the 19th century, a phenomenon known as “treating” began to arise, in which shopgirls and other unmarried women with low-paying jobs relied upon men to provide them with money for housing, dinners, in exchange for being an escort. Some sugar babies are hoping for a serious relationship or husband. Jennifer and many of the other young women realize the clock is ticking — and it’s not ticking in their favor. In these circles, youth and beauty reign supreme, with most men preferring the company of a sugar baby in their early-to-mid twenties.

After discussing the drama, the two women decided to take advantage of the unusual circumstance. The friend swiped right on Jay. After a quick private message exchange, he suggested they speak on the phone. The number he gave her was the same number for Ron, Ms. Fowles’s deadbeat sugar daddy.

Is there a Seeking Arrangement app?

Three-month of premium membership cost $44.85, which reduces the monthly cost to $14.95. And finally, if you pay for a six-month subscription, one month will only cost you $9.95. So, we can safely state that SeekingArrangement services cost less than average in the market.

In actual fact, the risks of sugar relationships are sometimes overly-exaggerated. If an individual considers himself to be a sugar daddy, he must pay for a subscription service, whereas sugar babies maintain their profile at no cost.

• Design and navigation of both desktop and mobile versions may look a bit boring, but here SeekingArrangement focuses on the older audience who may not be as tech-savvy as sugar babies.
• Even though anyone who reaches 18 can join, most sugar babies are university students, which is not surprising given the site concept.
• To her, it is just an illusion that allows sugar daddies feel like they’re in charge — but control in relationships is very much a two-way street.
• While sugar daddies pay $49.95 per month for a premium membership (or $1,200 a month for Diamond Club certification, which requires verification of one’s net worth through tax-return data), as a sugar baby I was able to join for free.
• It is called the Diamond Membership.
• Hakim argues that’s because “a central feature of patriarchy has been the construction of ‘moral’ ideologies that inhibit women from exploiting their erotic capital to achieve economic and social benefits.” After all, she points out, women tend to have more erotic capital than men.

How long does it take to be approved on Seeking Arrangement?

24-48 hours

— it’s easy and intuitive. For starters, users choose if they would like to open a sugar baby or a sugar daddy/mommy account. After that, users are asked a number of questions about their dating preferences, and that includes their budget expectations. So, sugar daddies/mommies state how much money they expect to spend on their sugar babies, and sugar babies state how much money per month they expect to get. Sugar babies have a need that rich sugar daddies can meet.

On the whole, the concept is not new, and anyone can start this relationship type on a mainstream dating platform. What Seeking Arrangement offers, however, is a totally unique user experience where all users state explicitly why they’re here.

(“Be positive, bright, and uplifting.”) As with erotic capital, emotional labor is at once revered as a supposedly natural trait of the “fairer, kinder sex” and devalued as serious, worthwhile work. Sugar daddies are willing to pay for it. Being a sugar baby requires impersonally assessing one’s value in the sexual marketplace. It’s demeaning, but it’s nothing new (a “seven” in the city might feel like a “ten” in the suburbs). Sugaring promises to let women freely capitalize on this value, what sociologist Catherine Hakim would call their erotic capital.

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How much does seeking arrangement cost?

How long does it take for my profile to be approved? Please be patient, photos and profiles enter the approval process in the order they were received. This usually takes 24-48 hours, however if the site is experiencing a high volume, this process may take longer.

Ideally, older users should take time to see if the profile is true-to-life. Yes and no.