<p>The ‘sugar daddies’ and ‘sugar babies’ at SeekingArrangement.com deny they’re engaging in prostitution. At the very least, says Ruth Padawer, their relationships are more complicated than that.</p>
<p>At first glance, the website SeekingArrangement.com seems like any other dating site. Most of the men are looking for fit, sexy women, and most of the women want nice guys who can make them smile and laugh. But if eHarmony and Match.com are chatty social mixers, Seeking Arrangement is a down-and-dirty marketplace where older moneyed men and cute young women engage in brutally frank transactions. They’re not searching for longtime soul mates; they want no-strings-attached “arrangements” that trade in society’s most valued currencies: wealth, youth, and beauty. In the cheesy lexicon of the site, they are “sugar daddies” and “sugar babies.”</p>
