As the cost of going to college continues its stubborn rise, and with work harder to come by during an anemic economic recovery, some students are resorting to a rather unusual measure to pay their college bills.

“Sugar Daddies,” wealthy older men who provide financial support to younger women in exchange for sex and companionship, have seen a rise in popularity among college students struggling to find a way to pay tuition.

College student membership on SeekingArrangement.com, a website that matches sugar daddies and sugar babies, has increased by 58 percent from December 2011 to December 2012.

“Currently, we have over 2 million members, 44 percent of whom are college students,” Leroy Velasquez, public relations manager at SeekingArrangement.com, told ABC News.

Deeply indebted, facing a lackluster economy, and with jobs scarce, college students and recent graduates are entering into what could be called borderline prostitution to foot their bills.

“In 2011, we saw an explosion in the number of college students seeking sugar daddies to help pay their college tuition,” said SeekingArrangement.com founder Brandon Wade in a news release.

“One in every two sugar babies who joins our website today are college students.”

SeekingArrangement.com released a list of the top 20 fastest growing “Sugar Baby” schools: Georgia State, New York University and Temple University topped the list.

According to Seeking

Arrangement.com, the average co-ed sugar baby receives approximately US$3,000 a month in allowances and gifts from her sugar daddy, enough to cover tuition and living expenses at most schools.

美经济不振 名校女生“傍大款”

在美国当前经济复苏势头疲软的形势下，大学学费持续上涨，但工作却更难找到，一些学生正求助于另一种非常手段来支付大学费用。

“糖爹”— 也就是以性和陪伴为交换条件向年轻女性提供经济支持的年长的富有男人— 越来越受那些苦于无力支付学费的大学生的欢迎。

SeekingArrangement.com是一家为“糖爹”和“糖宝”们牵线搭桥的网站，在该网站注册的大学生会员从2011年12月到2012年12月期间增加了58%。

SeekingArrangement.com的公关经理雷若伊·维拉斯奎兹告诉美国广播公司新闻网说：“目前我们有超过200万的会员，其中44%是大学生。

身负巨债、经济前景黯淡、工作稀缺……大学生和新近的毕业生们为了支付账单，正步入一种“边缘型卖淫”的生活状态。

SeekingArrangement.com的创立者布兰顿·韦德在一篇新闻通稿中说：“2011年，我们发现寻找‘糖爹’来帮忙支付大学学费的大学生人数激增。现在每两个加入我们网站的‘糖宝’，就有一个是大学生。”

SeekingArrangement.com发布了“糖宝”增速最快的学校前20名，乔治亚州立大学、纽约大学和坦普尔大学位居榜首。

据SeekingArrangement.com网站称，参与援交的“糖宝”一般每月能从“糖爹”那里得到约3000美元的生活费和礼物，足以支付在大部分学校的学费和生活开支。

Words to Learn 相关词汇

【诉诸】

sùzhū

resort to

turn to ... for help

【暗淡的】

àndàn de

lackluster

lacking brilliance or radiance; dull