Posted August 1, Reviewed by Gary Drevitch. Now called Seeking. Recently, several research teams have delved into the sugar scene. Their findings show that both sugar daddies and babies have distinct desires and needsβwith everyone involved bending over backward to deny that these relationships are sugar-coated sex work.
A sociologist at the University of Buffalo joined Seeking. To gain access to its listings of sugar daddies and babies, she created two fictitious profiles, one a daddy, the other a baby.
Then she analyzed profiles on the siteβ daddies and 90 babies. But only 17 percent of the daddies said they were involved in committed relationships:. Daddies were predominantly white, college educated, affluent, and childless. Eighty percent identified as white, and no other race or ethnicity comprised more than 4 percent of the sample.
Their average age was 44, but contradicting the stereotype that sugar daddies are over 40, many were in their twenties and thirties. Three-quarters were college graduates, with a third claiming graduate degrees.
The stereotype is that sugar babies are single women under 25, who purportedly use the support they receive to finance college educations, and, yes, most were in their twenties, but only a minority were enrolled in college:.
