The boundaries between sugar dating and prostitution are fluid. Two women tell their stories. Ihr Browser oder Adblocker verhindert dies momentan. They could easily find jobs in the service sector, where female employees are highly sought after. They could give tutoring sessions, or help out in a library. But why take on such strenuous work, where you fall half-dead into bed every evening?
No β peak time for these young women is precisely during those evenings. It is then that they meet the men with whom they find it much easier to earn money.
For female students and women in occupational training programs, youth is often the only capital they have. It is why men desire them, and will pay to spend time with them for one night or even more. Sugar dating is all about bartering: Sex for a good life.
We meet her in a restaurant in Lucerne, where she tells us about her extra income as a so-called sugar babe. Melissa just says Β«SB,Β» calling her sugar daddies Β«SD. Once she even met a consul. The men are 40 or 50 years-old, or even older. Many of them are academics, Melissa says, most of them married.
Melissa says she started sugar dating to pay off debt. Things like mobile phone bills, and fines for evading fares on public transport. She likes to have sex, she says. Now she can work and enjoy life at the same time. Indeed, experience and self-confidence help to distinguish them. Melissa says that most of the men are responsive to her and her needs, even if they only meet once. Often a relationship develops over time, she notes.
