Sugar baby

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A sugar baby is a person who receives cash, gifts or other financial and material benefits in exchange for platonic companionship. .[1] The paying partner is typically wealthier and older.[2] A sugar baby's male partner is often referred to not as a trick or a john but a sugar daddy, while the less-common female counterpart is a sugar momma, but the female counterpart has recently grown in popularity.[3][4]

The practice is sometimes called "sugaring".[2] Described in 2015 as an expanding trend[5], it has produced the highest number of sugar babies in the United States, followed by Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Colombia.[2] In America, students[5] are able to find men or women through online dating services.

In 2015, 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.[6]

According to the SeekingArrangement website in 2015, 36% of "gifts" received by women using their site was spent on tuition payments, while 23% was used to pay rent. The rest was spent on books, transportation, clothes, and other items.[2] However, more than just students, "sugar-dating" is also prevalent in the older age range.[7]

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 involving sexual or other activities, is between the parties.[8]

Sugar dating sites were affected by 11 April 2018 Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act passed by the U.S. Senate. The Act prompted the closure of many sugar dating sites operation in the US. This includes Established Men, a sugar dating site owned by the parent company of Ashley Madison, Ruby Corp, and the personals section of Craigslist.[9]

As of 2020 there is debate about whether this practice can be considered prostitution, i.e., purchase of intimate attention, sexual or otherwise.[10] Sugar have been called the modern counterpart of the 17th-century courtesan,[11][12] "a prostitute, especially one with wealthy or upper-class clients."