At 11 o’clock on a Tuesday night, Amanda, a senior at Princeton University, got her first text message from Stephen, a 60-something Wall Street banker. Immediately.“I told him it was too late—the trains just stopped running,” Amanda said.“He said he’d send a limo.”Amanda agreed, on the condition that she’d be back on campus for her 10 o’clock class the next morning.Stephen is just one of the many men Amanda has met on Seeking Arrangement, a website that connects “sugar babies”—young, pretty women—with “sugar daddies”—usually rich, older men.
They want someone highly educated who is eager to learn,” said Parinda Wanitwat, director of the documentary In almost every message Amanda receives on Seeking Arrangement, sugar daddies comment on how intelligent she sounds in her profile. All of them are well-educated, the majority are business executives.Seeking Arrangement creates the illusion that the sexual element of these relationships isn’t forced, but organic.No one associated with the website wants to admit that what it’s doing is facilitating sex-for-money exchanges.When she first signed up for Seeking Arrangement, Sarah, another sugar baby who recently graduated from college, was surprised by how many men sent her messages.Sarah has a curvy figure and is originally from Southeast Asia.