Coeds turning to ‘sugar daddies’ to pay tuition

Published January 14, 2013 5:00am ET



The ever-soaring price of college tuition, coupled with a similar jump in student loan debt, has a record number of female coeds turning to “sugar daddies” to help pay for their education and lifestyle, according to a website that links “sugar babies” with “sugar daddies.”

The site, SeekingArrangement.com, said that the number of women joining the sight jumped 58 percent last year. Locally, George Mason University made the list of schools seeing big jumps. It ranks 59th and saw a 62% surge in women signing up with the site in 2012.

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