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U.S. Shutdown May Be Driving Traffic To 'Sugar Daddy' Sites
National Public Radio's All Tech Considered ^ | October 5, 2013 | Elise Hu

Posted on 10/05/2013 6:24:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

sugar daddy (noun): a well-to-do usually older man who supports or spends lavishly on a mistress, girlfriend, or boyfriend.

The government shutdown may have become a boon for one kind of online dating site — those that help users find sugar daddies.

SeekingArrangment.com, which bills itself as "the world's largest sugar daddy dating website," says it has seen a 50 percent jump in average daily sign-ups since last Sunday, just before congressional intransigence forced the federal government to stop fully functioning. WhatsYourPrice.com, which lets people bid for first dates, reports a similar increase — the average number of daily signups went from 500 to 900 since Sunday.

SeekingArrangement works like other dating sites, providing a platform for people to meet. For a fee, it provides background checks and verification of its users. But as a niche dating community, people go to SeekingArrangement for a certain kind of match — someone to help pay the bills.

"They come here to create mutually beneficial arrangements," says Jennifer Gwynn, the public relations manager for the site, which has been up and running since 2006 and boasts 2 million members. "Usually there is a financial allowance attached to [the pairings], around $3,000 a month," she says....

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good marketing by the Sugar Daddy sites to plant a shutdown story with the useful idiots at NPR.


21 posted on 10/05/2013 7:45:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: DJ Frisat
I guess once Obamacare sign-ups started and they learned health care isn't going to be free, they decided to look for another easy source of income.


22 posted on 10/05/2013 7:46:13 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Indeed.


23 posted on 10/05/2013 7:47:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama should hire their IT staff to revamp the Obamacare site. At least they’ve had no trouble managing the increased traffic.


24 posted on 10/05/2013 7:49:55 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: JediJones

“Most women are extremely materialistic and don’t seem to have any concept of, interest in, or belief in actual love.”

That’s old news. For the majority of human history women
were auctioned off to the highest bidder by their own family.
This romance, love and marriage was mainly for the upper
class. Today they have taken the reins and are doing
the auctioning themselves.
So I guess in a sense they have been liberated.
They do have their uses though.


25 posted on 10/05/2013 7:59:19 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess all those young page boys and girls on Capitol Hill aren’t getting as many goodies out of their dirty old men in Congress. These are the type of old men who would buy their wives a 200 dollar set of cookware for their birthday, and then buy a 12,000 dollar diamond necklace for their girlfriend on her birthday. Or a new purple Lamborghini for their 19-year-old boyfriend.


26 posted on 10/05/2013 8:00:53 PM PDT by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.)
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To: JediJones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5lwm-ODGIE

Good Ole Bellamy Brothers.

27 posted on 10/05/2013 8:05:37 PM PDT by onona (The Earth is the insane asylum for the universe (yup, I belong))
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

“In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes; only let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”

God may have made women weaker in strength and incapable
of controlling their emotions but he did give them something
that they can always make a living with. Well some of them
anyway.

Jerome The Pimp 1:1


28 posted on 10/05/2013 8:10:59 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

May all of these posters have daughters....


29 posted on 10/05/2013 8:11:51 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: onona
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5lwm-ODGIE

The Bellamy Brothers "Sugar Daddy"

30 posted on 10/05/2013 8:12:48 PM PDT by onona (The Earth is the insane asylum for the universe (yup, I belong))
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To: jespasinthru

“These are the type of old men who would buy their wives a 200 dollar set of cookware for their birthday, and then buy a 12,000 dollar diamond necklace for their girlfriend on her birthday.”

Yes and for some the necklace was the wife’s idea. I’m
sure some of those old cougar broads have their own
thing going on. Like the Beast and that Abedin Weiner chick.


31 posted on 10/05/2013 8:18:00 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is there a sugar mama website?


32 posted on 10/05/2013 8:21:03 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is there a sugar mama website?


33 posted on 10/05/2013 8:24:02 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: JediJones

“Once they find out you’re not earning 6 figures or more they’ll find some excuse to say they’re not interested”

There is a way around it. Play a mean guitar. Hay it’s
the only way I can date out of my league.
You could take a tip from Ron White. You can fix saggy
boobs, pay for cosmetic surgury, liposuxion the works but
the one thing you can’t fix is “stupid”. So all you have to
do is find a smart one. Yea, good luck with that one.


34 posted on 10/05/2013 8:27:20 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: Mamzelle

“May all of these posters have daughters....”

I know what you mean. Believe me, I know.


35 posted on 10/05/2013 8:32:13 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: TruthWillWin

“Is there a sugar mama website?”

I don’t know about a site but they call the guys
“Fixerupers”.
There are a lot of women who make some serious dough
and do the same thing. It’s just, they are women, and
there’s not enough of them to afford a profitable web
site. The best way to meet them is to be clean and work
in some residential service. You’ll know when you have one
on the hook when they tell you where the key is hid and
they leave girly things laying around and a note that
says “make yourself at home”.


36 posted on 10/05/2013 8:44:42 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: Paladin2

37 posted on 10/05/2013 9:25:38 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: MV=PY
I don't own any current SL skis, though I'm not opposed to trying some.

I'm somewhat old Skool in that I still find that the "short skis suck, long skis truck" meme works for me (Salomon AK Rockets in 200cm are my everyday ski).

(And I have a collection of DH race stock skis to play with).

(Gradient is the elixir of youth)

(Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.)

Just sayin' ;-)

38 posted on 10/05/2013 9:37:12 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought this was what “Craig’s List” was for?


39 posted on 10/05/2013 9:46:03 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard
Craigs List isn't just for

these?

40 posted on 10/05/2013 9:48:53 PM PDT by Paladin2
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