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More UC Berkeley Students Using 'Sugar Daddies' to Pay for School
What do you think of the trend, and the fact that UC Berkeley's membership is on the rise?
UC Berkeley is one of the fastest growing "sugar baby" schools in the country, according to SeekingArrangement.com, a social website that connects students with "sugar daddies" — older men who provide them money to help pay for college.
SeekingArrangement.com describes itself as a site for mutually beneficial arrangements and mutually beneficial relationships. Tell us what you think below this story.
Hundreds of students from UC Berkeley and UC Davis are currently members of the website.
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UC Berkeley experienced a 67 percent increase in registration on the site, ranking the school among the "fastest growing sugar baby schools of 2012," according to a SeekingArrangement.com press release. UC Davis experienced 220 percent growth.
College student memberships on SeekingArrangement.com as a whole increased by 58 percent last year.
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"The average college Sugar Baby receives approximately $3,000 per month to cover the cost of tuition, books and living expenses," wrote spokesperson Angela Jacob Bermudo in an email to Patch.
The Huffington Post reported on this trend back in 2011, profiling elderly men who use the site for sex and companionship, and the women who said they "never thought it would come to this."
What do you think of the trend, and the fact that UC Berkeley's membership is on the rise?
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