Death, Sex & Money - When 'Daddy Dates' Pay The Bills
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Audio
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A 22-year-old who calls herself a “professional sugar baby” explains why she goes on dates with much older men for money—and why the men don’t always think of her as a sex worker.
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| 0:00.0 | The website is seeking arrangement and you're looking for an arrangement. |
| 0:04.9 | Like when they slip the money in your purse, like that's the arrangement. |
| 0:11.6 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:14.7 | I mean, they hired you to do a job and then they try to kill you. |
| 0:17.5 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. I can't keep my hands off of you. And need to talk about more. This dude saw a chance to get paid and he took it. Ain't nothing wrong with that. I'm Anna Sailed. A couple of months ago, we got an email from a 22-year-old woman in Toronto, we're calling Lizzie. That's not her real name. |
| 0:39.7 | But it is the name she uses on a website called Seeking Arrangement. It's a dating site, |
| 0:45.2 | sort of. It describes itself as a meeting place for mutually beneficial relationships. In practice, |
| 0:52.5 | it mostly connects older men who have money with attractive young |
| 0:56.4 | women who need it. It's free for women to sign up, but you have to put pictures up of your |
| 1:02.5 | body or your face. The men have to pay like $80 a month to sign up, but they don't have to |
| 1:08.9 | have any pictures if they don't want. |
| 1:16.0 | And that kind of, like, perfectly describes the essence of an arrangement. |
| 1:17.1 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:19.8 | Like, their money for our body. |
| 1:24.5 | And seeking arrangement is not subtle about this dynamic. |
| 1:30.6 | The site calls the moneyed older men sugar daddies. The young women are sugar babies. |
| 1:39.5 | Do you call them dates? Yeah, I'd call them dates. Like, I call them a daddy date. That's kind of how I describe it. |
| 1:46.5 | Does a date usually mean sex? Um, maybe half the time. |
| 1:47.4 | Huh. |
| 1:50.3 | Can you anticipate when it will mean sex? |
| 1:57.5 | Yeah, I mean, there are dates that it's, you know, we do date like activities. |
| 2:04.8 | We go for dinner, movie, that kind of thing. And there might be the option of hanging out somewhere after alone. And then there are dates that are just, okay, come to this hotel |
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