Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies: An Exploration of Sugar Dating on Canadian Campuses

Daly, Sarah Elaine

doi:10.22215/etd/2017-11961

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“…It is also a financial relationship between a sugar baby and his or her sugar daddy or sugar mommy. Sugar baby is defined as an attractive individual who look to experience luxurious lifestyle and meet affluent or wealthy people (Daly, 2017). On the other hand, sugar daddy or mommy is an older and wealthier individual who provides materialistic goods to a younger partner (Birkas et al, 2020).…”

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The Self-perception of Sugar Relationship and Self-esteem among Young Adults: A Qualitative Study

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2022

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Sugar relationship is a controversial issue in Asia countries. The sugar relationship trend has increasingly evident in Malaysia which made the community frowned upon this intergenerational relationship. As engaging in sugar relationship can affect self-esteem among sugar babies. Therefore, this research aims to explore the self-perception of sugar relationship and self-esteem among young adults who are in the relationship. To achieve the objectives of this study, a qualitative study with phenomenological approach was used. In total 10 young adults aged between 20 to 25 years old were selected and interviewed by utilizing semistructured interview protocol. The collected data was analysed using thematic analysis to generate core themes. The current study discovered that young adults' perceptions of sugar relationships are shaped by four themes: conceptualization, factors that contribute to being a sugar baby, potential risks, and ideation to quit sugar relationships. These impressions ultimately impacted the sugar babies' self-esteem based on their self-awareness, associated sentiments, and personal experience. Sugar babies were compelled and perceived sugar relationship as unique. They also had awareness of potential risks and future plan for them resulting in having healthy self-esteem. Additionally, this study is expected to provide substantive knowledge and solutions to assist researchers, government officials, and sugar babies in dealing with social ethics and law enactment. This study would like to suggest that this topic can be conducted at different regions in Malaysia or other research methods to fill in the research gap.

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“…Previous studies had only focus on the self-perception of sugar relationship (Daly, 2017;Reed, 2015). In conjunction, there is no research that study about self-esteem.…”

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The Self-perception of Sugar Relationship and Self-esteem among Young Adults: A Qualitative Study

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“…Heterosexual sugar dating has been documented in some countries of the Global South such as Kenya (Longfield et al., 2004; Luke, 2015) and South Africa (Brouard & Crewe, 2013; Phaswana-Mafuya et al., 2014; Selikow & Mbulaheni, 2013). Although some studies have been carried out in the Global North (see Miller, 2011–12; Motyl, 2013; Nayar, 2017; or Mixon, 2018, for articles based in the US; and Daly, 2017, for Canada), sugar dating in the United Kingdom continues to be under-researched.…”

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Blurred lines: Technologies of heterosexual coercion in “sugar dating”

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2021

Feminism & Psychology

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“Sugar dating” is the practice of establishing a “mutually beneficial relationship” between an older, affluent male – Sugar Daddy – and a younger, financially disempowered female – Sugar Baby. Although the figure of the “Sugar Daddy” has become commonplace in popular culture, this area of study remains largely unexplored, especially in the UK. Among the numerous websites that have mushroomed in the last decades in this country, Seeking.com stands out not only for providing an online meet-up place for Sugar Daddies and Babies, but also for serving as the matrix where the “sugar” discourse is constructed. The site functions as a discursive producer of the subject, inasmuch as Sugar Babies and Daddies are subjected and subjugated through a process of assujettissement by this kind of discursive power. Interviews conducted with four women who had recently acted as Sugar Babies showed how this discourse permeates the subjects and acts as a “technology of coercion” that works to perpetuate hegemonic notions of heterosexuality and undermines the participants” agency to refuse to engage in sexual intercourse, effectively “blurring the lines” of sexual consent.

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“…This model of sex work challenges both the typical boundaries set between sex worker and client in traditional direct arrangements (such as prostitution), and also the ways in which transactions take place. For example, a sugar baby/boy may be compensated with a monthly payment and expensive gifts, rather than being paid in line with their hourly rate or for individual acts (Daly, 2017).…”

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Masculinities, vulnerability and negotiated identity: Understanding the reporting behaviours of men who experience violence or otherwise harmful behaviour, within a sex work context

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Context The focus of sex work related discussions most commonly falls on female providers of sexual services, and male purchasers. As a result, the often victim-oriented policy response in England and Wales falls short of truly addressing the needs of men who are involved in the sale of sex, with there being limited support available for them and a systemic approach which does not fully recognise the potential for men to face harm within this context. Methods The aim of this study is to explore experiences of and reactions to violence, and otherwise harmful behaviours, faced by men in the context of their sex working, by understanding the lived realities of a sample of men who engage in this type of work. The study takes a phased approach which combines an initial informative quantitative survey, with three subsequent phases of semi-structured interviews with male sex workers, sex work-focused practitioners and police officers. The method is guided by feminist research principles which suggest that reality is situated within those with lived experience, and also by an element of co-creation which has grounded this study within the perspectives of male sex workers from its conception. Findings The findings of this research suggest that all of the men involved in the study had faced at least one of the violent or otherwise harmful behaviours outlined, though reporting of these behaviours was not at all common. Discussions with the male sex working participants, practitioners and the police highlighted the issues related to the structural influences of authority, such as the police, and the social environment, and the internalisation of these wider factors, which create barriers to reporting for groups such as male sex workers and others who face similar social marginalisation. Conclusions This study challenges existing gendered understandings of violence and otherwise harmful behaviour within a sex work context, by highlighting the harmful experiences of men. By exploring these experiences and the reporting behaviours of those involved, the study also proposes a new framework for understanding barriers to reporting, which suggests that these are formed through the influences of formal and informal measures of social control, and the internalisation of these outside influences by the individual. By better understanding the experiences of men, and the barriers to their reporting, this study attempts to nuance a gendered discussion. Within, I propose that in order to better support male sex workers, responses must begin by appreciating the heterogeneity of those involved in sex work and the influence of their individual circumstances and the social environment on their willingness to seek support.

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Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies: An Exploration of Sugar Dating on Canadian Campuses

Cited by 6 publications

References 84 publications

The Self-perception of Sugar Relationship and Self-esteem among Young Adults: A Qualitative Study

The Self-perception of Sugar Relationship and Self-esteem among Young Adults: A Qualitative Study

Blurred lines: Technologies of heterosexual coercion in “sugar dating”

Masculinities, vulnerability and negotiated identity: Understanding the reporting behaviours of men who experience violence or otherwise harmful behaviour, within a sex work context

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