“Sugar Dating”: Moral or Normal? College tuition is on the rise. Money is a huge factor when it comes to choosing which college a student goes to. Some think when it comes to college, naturally, debt comes with it. This is not the case. With good financial planning a college degree can be achieved without debt. How? Many female students in universities all across America have turned to “sugar dating” to help pay for college tuition (Lynn, Alicia). This raises the question of what “sugar dating” is. “Sugar dating” is when a male financially or materially improves a female's lifestyle with affection in-return (Sugar Matchmaking). Being a “sugar baby” is not prostitution because it’s not illegal, true affection, companionship, and feelings are …show more content…
A few of the most popular ones are SeekingArrangement.com, SugarDaddyForMe.com, and MutualArrangements.com. Once signed up for these websites, a questionnaire must be filled out with one’s likes, dislikes, aspirations, and physical description about them. Not only do they fill out information about them, but they also make it clear about what they want to gain from a “sugar dating” relationship and what they expect from the other. Each, “sugar baby” and “sugar daddy,” pick and choose what they want in one another, once the form is processed the website gives matches based on the choices made and one’s location (Hill, Logan). After they each contact each other on the website they begin texting and calling one another to get to know each other. Some people involved in “sugar dating” prefer to FaceTime or Snapchat to see if the person is even real or not. Although each person’s intentions are different most of these relationships don’t “take-off” from the start, they begin slow and work themselves up to meeting each other in person (Hill, Logan). An anonymous student at University of Georgia speaks about how being in a “sugar” relationship can be a full-time job at times. She says when entering into a new relationship you have to get to know every detail about this person, bad and good. She also proceeds to say that the pay isn’t always what you expect (Trammell,