![]() I check my email notification and I find I've got messages from somebody everyday." 'A relationship freed from drudgery' "Whereas it's so straightforward, and so easy. Women on those sites, he said, frequently ignored his messages. There's a lot of cat and mouse involved, a lot of chasing, and. "You know, I've used multiple other dating websites throughout the years, but the process has been really difficult. That Seeking Arrangement has a member ratio in Australia of about two sugar babies for each sugar daddy has also meant that Dorian now has a new message in his inbox from a prospective sugar baby every day. The average age of a sugar baby on Seeking Arrangement is between 21 and 27. "They'd be like: 'Who is this guy?'"ĭorian said he had had sex with some of the women he had met through the website, but not all. "There's no way I would put that on OK Cupid," he says, referring to a conventional dating website. In his case, this has meant being able to ask and find a young woman to go shopping for, and model for him "a three-piece lingerie set" from a particular brand he likes. "I don't have to be: 'Oh I have to look like a kind caring gentleman.' No, I just say exactly what I want, what I'm looking for, what I am, and then someone will find it, someone will like me." "I don't have to be who I'm not," says Dorian. So what does Dorian get out of such relationships, which he says he sought out for "companionship"? 'I can say and ask for exactly what I want' Google 'sugar daddies Australia' and there are nearly 250,000 results, including the sites Sugar Daddy Meet, Sugar Daddy Australia and Australian Sugar Daddy. And it's just one of many websites like it. Seeking Arrangement has hundreds of thousands of sugar daddies signed up globally, with 57,000 in Australia alone. While the data on just how many men are engaged in these relationships is hard to pin down - other sugar daddy websites contacted by the ABC declined to provide data - testimonies from sugar daddies have been popping up with regularity over the last year in such publications as The Australian Women's Weekly, Harper's Bazaar and GQ. He escapes by pretending to be his butler's wife. Once upon a time, men in relationships with sugar babies were a target for ridicule, as in the 1927 silent Laurel and Hardy film Sugar Daddies, in which an oil tycoon struggles to escape a woman he accidentally married while drunk. What is new, however, is that these types of relationships, while once something widely made fun of, have gone mainstream and global. The concept of a "sugar daddy" may be nothing new - some think the term might stem from the 1908 marriage between Adolph Spreckels, an American heir to a sugar fortune, with a woman 24 years his junior. The overwhelming majority of relationships are made up of older men paying to see younger women.Īmong the 193,000 Australian members of Seeking Arrangement, men make up about 90 per cent of the "successful" people paying for companionship, and women make up about 89 per cent of the sugar babies. Unlike a conventional dating website, Seeking Arrangement connects men and women who agree up front to pay younger, attractive men and women for companionship, or as the website puts it: "sugar babies are an expense that must be accounted for". Older, male, work clients introduced him to the website. He has met all five of them, whom he has dated at different times in the last seven months, through Seeking Arrangement, a dating website that bills itself as a place for sugar daddies ("successful men") to meet "sugar babies" ("attractive people looking for the finer things in life"). ![]() ![]() On average, Dorian, who is "under 40" and unmarried, says he spends about $5,000 in gifts per month on each woman. "We just stopped talking gradually, both drifted our own ways," he said. That relationship lasted two months after, he says. The Sydney-based business consultant has given one woman a $7,000 motorbike. ( Supplied: The Hunt)ĭorian* admits that he pays a lot more to be a "sugar daddy" to various "sugar babies" - to give younger women extravagant gifts in exchange for their company - than he would if he frequented his local brothel. The 'sugar' lifestyle has been described as the new 'prostitution economy'.
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