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美国大学女生兴起“傍大款”热潮 As college costs continue their stubborn rise, and with work harder to come by during an anemic economic recovery, some students are resorting to a rather unusual measure in order to pay their college bills. 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。 ? 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 SeekingA, 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 SeekingA, told ABC News. Its very difficult to retain a part time or full-time job, especially when you have an academic life. With SeekingArrangement, we offer these types of relationships. ? Asked if he thought the anemic economy was contributing to the rise in sugar daddy arrangements, Velasquez said, I think its directly correlated. We are in a very recessive economy, tuition costs and costs of living have increased and people are finding alternative ways of funding a college education, in this case becoming a sugar baby. ? 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 SeekingA founder Brandon Wade in a news release. One in every two sugar babies who joins our website today are college students. ? SeekingA released a list of the top 20 fastest growing Sugar Baby schools: Georgia State, NYU and Temple University topped the list. ? According to SeekingA, the average co-ed sugar baby receives approximately $3,000 a month