The start to my phone interview with Leroy Velasquez, a press representative for SeekingArrangement. I am investigating a recent trend of university students using sugar daddy dating websites, like SeekingArrangement. When asked what exactly SeekingArrangement. Velasquez explains that there are various terms for the different kinds of people using the site: sugar daddies, sugar mommies, and sugar babies.
On the other hand, a sugar baby is typically a younger woman— years old—whose income is less relevant, but ostensibly much lower. We have gay sugar daddy males [and] gay sugar baby females. We have a wide range of relationships on our website. While the service is free for sugar babies to use, sugar daddies and mommies must pay a monthly fee for their membership. The website even offers a promotion encouraging sugar babies to register with their university email account, which has enabled them to gather data on which universities boast the most sugar babies.
With new accounts created in alone, it falls behind Ryerson new accounts , University of Ottawa new accounts , and University of Toronto new accounts , which hold the top three spots respectively.
According to SeekingArrangement. A sugar daddy just seems like the most ideal and sensible choice when engaging in relationships. It sounds like a pretty sweet deal, right? Aside from the obvious questions it raises, I wondered if it was too good to be true. Unable to find any experienced sugar babies to speak with, I decided to do the next best thing: see for myself.
I created a SeekingArrangement. Most of the messages I got were from men living in places outside of Montreal, looking to travel downtown to meet up. Mostly, they were from towns in Quebec and Ontario, but a few were from the states, even as far away as Texas. And then, there are times where sugar daddies are looking for someone to seriously date. I received messages proposing shopping trips, dinners, and hotel meet-ups right off the bat, but others simply requesting I message them back to see if there was a connection.
