After taking her on a shopping spree at Cherry Creek mall, the year-old man sporting a gray suit bought a Starbucks cake pop for Vanessa, 23, and left the mall alone. The arrangement is nothing new, but increasing tuition and student-loan debt paired with the ease of joining a site that facilitates these relationships are contributing to an increase of Colorado sugar baby relationships. Vanessa meets her sugar daddies on the website seekingarrangement. How the transaction plays out β up to and including sex β is up to the participants.
Nonetheless, students continue to sign up. In , 66 University of Colorado students signed up to be a sugar baby on Seeking Arrangement, which is more than a 60 percent jump over the previous year. In total, CU sugar babies were registered on the site by the end of , according to the site. Though Seeking Arrangement, clients self-report their ages, the website tries to make sure the babies are not younger than Local law enforcement agencies say that because the site was set up like a dating website and advertised as facilitating consensual connections, it is not illegal.
A year-old Greeley-based sugar daddy who uses Seeking Arrangement and spoke on condition of anonymity for privacy reasons, has gone on at least 50 dates with sugar babies since he started using the site in September, he said.
He described the girls he has seen β all in college or aspiring to be β as barely getting by financially. They eat that up. There are more than 2, sugar daddies registered with Seeking Arrangement in the Denver area and sugar mamas, according to the website. More than 15, Denver women β some college students, some not β are using the site as a sugar baby, and nearly 2, Denver men are registered sugar babies, too. He was not familiar with students using sugar daddies or mamas to pay the bills.
The money covers her rent, car payment and leisure activities while her parents and academic scholarships cover her tuition. In exchange for the financial support, Vanessa said the confident older men seek companionship with someone they can mentor.
