Sugar baby

For other uses, see Sugar baby (disambiguation).

A sugar baby is a type of mistress who dates wealthy, older men, while receiving cash and expensive gifts in exchange for being in the relationship. The practice is known as sugaring. This emerging trend has produced the highest number of sugar babies in the United States, followed by Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and Colombia. In America, students are able to find men through online dating services with such names as "Sugardaddie", "SeekingArrangement", "SugarDaddyForMe", and "MutualArrangements". The site SeekingArrangement claims to have over 1.4 million students among its members, comprising 42 percent of registrants. Almost one million of these are in the United States. According to one of the main websites that connects the two parties, 36% of what they receive goes to tuition payments, while 23% is used to pay rent. The rest is spent on books, transportation, clothes, and other items.

Legal status

The online sites used for introducing people who may negotiate sugar arrangements are technically dating sites. Membership on one site in 2016 was $70 a month for sugar daddies, but free for sugar babies. What happens after the initial date, whether much or nothing, involving sex or not, is between the parties.

See also

• Kept man, a similar arrangement with roles reversed
• Age disparity in sexual relationships
• Trophy wife

External links

• Statistics