Some Canadian university and college students are paying their way through school with the help of a website featuring "sugar daddies" willing to help pay their bills and loans in exchange for dates.

"Sugar babies aren't paid. They're given gifts.” —Brook Urick “For me, sugar dating is not a job. It’s not a profession. It’s just a choice of my lifestyle that I want to live.” —Violet, a sugar baby ...

In 2006, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student launched SeekingArrangement.com to match older men (sugar daddies) with younger women (sugar babies) for “compensated dating,” a ...

“I made an account as a joke, just to see what it was like, but I quickly saw the appeal,” Catherine Smith*, a student at the University of Washington, says. “One guy offered me three thousand dollars ...