‘This is not about normal dates . . . you soon understand that you are just meat for men’

A 22-YEAR-OLD PhD student at Cambridge said she joined the Seeking Arrangement website in desperation last year after she found herself with rent arrears.

She said she was contacted by 80 men in the three months she was on the site – and 90 per cent explicitly asked for sex.

During that time she slept with five men ranging in age from 40 to 60. They all met her for one-off meetings and paid around £400 for her time.

Her worst experience was with an Asian property developer who took her for dinner in London.

She said during the meal he plied her with copious amounts of wine, before inviting her back to his penthouse apartment where he then encouraged her to take cocaine and smoke marijuana with him.

From here he cajoled her to go out on to his balcony where he forced her into a sex act with a beer bottle.

On another occasion she was inundated with messages from a 70-year-old man in Brighton who offered to pay her £1,000 to have unprotected sex.

The woman said she did not report the sexual assault to the police for fear of her family or friends finding out that she had sex for money.

She has now left the site, but revealed the experience had left her feeling ashamed and deeply emotionally scarred. She said: ‘If a woman still thinks there is possibility of “normal dating” after signing up, she will soon understand that Seeking Arrangement and sites like it are platforms for prostitution.

‘Every single interaction with men was quickly – usually after a few lines – very explicit on what they want and the price.

‘All of them really quickly want nude pictures. You are just meat for men.’