OKLAHOMA CITY – An increasing number of young college girls are finding a sweet deal to help pay for their education.

They’re hooking up with sugar daddies that are more than willing to exchange their cash for companionship, The Oklahoma Daily reports.

“We got along well when he met me for the first time,” an Oklahoma University student using the pseudonym Brittany Howard told the news site. “There was some sort of unspoken bond. I was attracted to him as a man, as well. I’m not just there for monetary purposes.”

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Howard met a well-to-do businessman from North Texas who travels to Oklahoma City several times a week. When he’s in town he takes Howard out on fancy dates and usually leaves her with several hundred dollars at a time.

Howard, 21, uses the cash to live off of while finishing up her senior year at Oklahoma University, which eliminates the need to get a job to help pay her way.

“I’m in my senior year, and I’m going to have loans,” she told the Daily. “Because of my major, I don’t have time to look for a job where I have steady hours.”

Howard found her sugar daddy on the website Seeking Arrangement, where there are currently 3,447 sugar babies and 21,738 sugar daddies looking for similar arrangements. Of those, 196 attend Oklahoma University, 144 attend Oklahoma State University, and 76 go to the University of Central Oklahoma, according to the news site.

“[Sugar daddies] have the qualities of someone who’s successful as an entrepreneur, someone who can help them advance their career, a mature man, someone who is ambitious,” said Brook Urick, public relations manager for Seeking Arrangement. “Sugar babies are also ambitious. The largest demographic is college students. Some of these girls are looking for mentors and sponsors to help them finance their school.”

According to the company, 42 percent of all sugar babies on the site are college women and the majority of sugar daddies are successful entrepreneurs in their 40s.

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“Women want a man who can take care of them and want to be spoiled,” Urick said. “And there’s nothing wrong with wanting your day in the sun, wanting to be a princess. A lot of girls want it, but they’re just afraid to express that.”

Urick told the Daily that sugar daddies are looking for “companionship and youthfulness,” though Howard acknowledges that sex likely will become part of the equation at some point. Her relationship hasn’t gone that far, yet, she said.

“I don’t know what will happen in the future,” Howard said. “We’re good friends who like to have fun together sometimes … I’m not against (sex). Like any relationship, when things start moving forward, that’s how things end up happening.”

Until then, Howard plans to keep it casual, and after a recent long-term relationship that went sour, having an arrangement with no expectations is a relief, she said.

“I don’t have to worry about texting someone every day or calling them every night or having to see them all the time,” Howard told the Daily. “Because that could get very stressful – feeling like you need to please the other person and their family. Traditional relationships can be very un-genuine sometimes, I feel.”