As a result, college students struggle to make ends meet while pursuing an education to pay off those debts later. This phenomenon is known as sugar dating, a mutually beneficial relationship between a sugar daddyβ a wealthy older male interested in providing a financial resource for his partnerβ and a sugar babyβ younger women interested in this type of relationship.
Sugar dating is a transactional dating practice typically characterized by an older, wealthier person and a younger person in need of financial assistance in a mutually beneficial relationship.
Sugar dating is posed as a safe, alternative balance of school and working one or multiple part-time jobs.
However, the danger of situations as such is that they often lead to a variety of forms of manipulation and sexual exploitation.
Sugar dating can involve scenarios of harassment, sexual assault, and the manipulation of financial arrangements to coerce unwanted sexual actionβ also known as rape. Although there is little research on the topic, sugar dating has become a cultural phenomenon that has grown throughout the past decade.
