A woman who joined Seeking.com to become a sugar infant is urging young women to avoid the website after she was clean-cut into prostitution.

The woman was a 23-year-quondam single mum when she joined the website just says she was soon coerced into selling her body for sex activity.

She says the reality of the website is far different to "the pipe dream they sell you lot" and says the clientele consists of "a lot of men with really strange and dark fantasies."

Lexi uses Seeking to find her sugar daddy

Lexi uses Seeking to find her carbohydrate daddy

The controversial website allows young men and women to create an business relationship, speak to 'saccharide daddies' or 'sugar mommies', exchange photographs and arrange to meet upwardly, Leeds Live explain.

Seeking.com, formerly known every bit Seeking Arrangement, is billed every bit a website where "beautiful, successful people fuel mutually beneficial relationships" and it states that sugar babies "get to experience a luxurious lifestyle and meet wealthy people on a regular basis."

But she claims that it is used by men to casualty on vulnerable young women who are frequently desperate for coin.

Thousands of students at United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland universities have signed upwards to become carbohydrate babies.

'I didn't realise the level that was expected'

"Information technology'southward non but 55-yr-old guys with a bit of cash they desire to spend on spoiling a 20-yr-old," she said.

"That's the piping dream they sell you.

"Information technology's a lot of men with really strange and dark fantasies.

"When I signed up 3 years ago, I think I was quite naive at the time. Information technology seems really stupid now.

"You get the idea that it'south not really sexual, as that's the image portrayed in the media.

"When I went on information technology, I thought I wouldn't actually take to do a lot. I didn't realise the level that was expected.

"I thought, at the worst, I would take to send some photographs and do some webcam-ing, I didn't know how explicit it was going to be and just how awful information technology is.

"It's a load of men with actually obscure fantasies and fetishes. A lot of information technology is about inflicting sadistic stuff on girls and students who are vulnerable. Information technology's all pretty extreme."

She added: "Most of the men had wives, girlfriends and other lives, but it's a hidden way of advice, so information technology goes from chatting on Seeking.com to 'encounter me in a hotel and bring this and that'.

"Through me existence on in that location, I was recruited into the sex industry."

The woman, who is now 26, said that when she start signed up, men would ship her money for photographs and arrange to run into upwardly, but she backed out of several of these meetings at the last minute because she felt it would be "too risky".

Even so, ane man seemed to exist more than mannerly and open. He gave her his number and even offered to show his driving licence earlier he asked her to come and work for him.

"He said I'm looking for girls to apparel nice, serve booze and party with men for £75 an hour," she said. "Information technology seems stupid at present, but they utilise these lies to get you lot in.

"The first time I met him, he took me to a bed and breakfast in Heathrow and when I got at that place, he said he had agreed for me to accept sex with a man and I would go £150, but would give half to him.

"When I got there I couldn't really dorsum out. I was on my own, had been driven there belatedly at night and didn't really know where I was. It was besides just me there with these 2 men."

She said the pimp, who cannot be named for legal reasons, took her to have sex with other men over a menstruum of eight months and she became "trapped" in a cycle of self-loathing and misery.

Thousands of students at Britain universities have signed upwardly to go sugar babies

She managed to escape from that murky globe, with the help of a friend who converted her to Christianity, and she now works for an exit back up service that helps other women working in the sex trade.

The female parent-of-one is also working to raise awareness of the risks that come with beingness a sugar baby.

She said: "With preparation, in schools in that location's been a lot of didactics to tell children what to look out for, but nigh immature adults don't know what to picket out for.

"Just considering we are adults, it doesn't hateful we are not vulnerable. Men still prey on you. The predators and the pimps casualty on xviii to 25-year-olds that they know are financially desperate."

She added: "If you practice stop up doing information technology, don't be afraid to accomplish out and get support if it is affecting you. The shame and stigma often prevent people from coming forward."

Seeking Arrangement has not taken the opportunity to respond to her claims, but information technology does warn users about criminals, sex opportunists and fiscal opportunists.

The website states: "Seeking Arrangement does not perform background checks on every member, then please proceed with caution.

"Do your own research, and always find out more about someone before you decide to meet them.

"Don't hash out sexual practice in your Seeking System profile description or messages you send to members."