Bridget met him for the first time at a cafe, his usual location to meet in person with girls he interacts with online. Sitting across from him at a round table, Bridget hashed out logistics of their potential arrangement, including a monthly allowance to assist her with college expenses and student loans.
Bridget is one of about 40 students registered with an ithaca. On SeekingArrangement, college students are offered premium memberships for free. The running joke about Wade creating the site to overcome his social awkwardness and meet girls has some truth to it, Bermudo said. Members on SeekingArrangement must pay to upgrade for access to certain features. Two of the around 40 sugar babies on SeekingArrangement registered with an ithaca. There are only around 12, sugar mommies on the site, compared to around , sugar daddies, which equates to about 30 sugar daddies for every one sugar mommy.
His one previous arrangement lasted two years and ended last May after the girl graduated from college. Background verification is a separate feature from membership levels. A small checkmark symbol is added to member profiles if the results indicate they have not committed a crime. To create a profile on SeekingArrangement, an interested user must first specify a type of account — either a sugar daddy, sugar mommy, male sugar baby or female sugar baby.
Then the user fills out some basic information about his or her location, marital status, physical characteristics, drinking habits, among other personal data.
This can either be in the form of an allowance or other forms of pampering, such as dinners, gifts or travel. She said it began as a joke to see how many hits she could get, and within months her inbox was filled with more than messages.
