The older men with money who offer to pay the expenses of much younger girls in exchange for their company An old concept, but one that has recently been trivialized and appears to have gained popularity in the West and Asian countries.
Spain is the fifth country in the world with the most users of Sugar Dating applications, with 400,000 registered and registered, according to data from the project #DesactivaLaTrata of the NGO Diacona. According to the experts interviewed by the Objetivo Igualdad program, the laundering of this practice in social networks may be facilitating the prostitution of girls at ever younger ages.
Inés (a fictitious name) is one of them. At the age of 19, she has met several older men, up to 70 years old, and she has slept with two. She normally takes her to dinner at a hotel, for which she earns €50, and if they want a kiss, it’s another €20 extra. For a two-minute erotic video, they give her €40, which “fixes a week’s worth of food.”
The Sugar Baby Profile
In this type of application, eight out of ten users are under 31 years of age. Diakonia warns that 63% are university women. The marketing campaigns of the sugar dating apps are mainly aimed at young people between the ages of 18 and 25. To entice them to the US, give them the promise to “graduate without debt” as an advertising claim.
Gisel (not her real name) is registered on one of the most popular sugar daddy websites. She claims that she hasn’t dated yet, but she believes that sooner or later, she will end up doing it.
In your environment, this type of exchange aisvery normalized. She explains that several of her friends paid for university by selling photos of their feet: “They have offered me full salaries and €300 just for going to dinner.” Expensive gifts, cell phones, trips, etc., offer you so many options that you seriously consider whether or not to accept them. or not .”No,” he says emphatically.
The Vulnerability of Women
Clara Guilló, a sociologist who is an expert in gender, points out that the job insecurity of women makes us more vulnerable to this type of proposal. From her point of view, the pandemic has helped foster these pages: “It has had a tremendous labor impact.” “Women are looking for a way to earn an income to survive, and that’s where we see this option.”
Sugar babies can be from any social class. Not all of them access these relationships due to the need to cover expenses as elementary as education. “It’s very tempting.” “Because maybe if I don’t need that extra money, I can use it for things I want, like clothes or bags,” Gisel confesses.
However, how they use the money they earn through their encounters with the sugar daddies is not relevant, as Guilló explains: “The judgment is not there.” “A woman can have the most superficial lifestyle she wants; the key is for her to achieve it herself.” In any case, the trivialization of these commercial exchanges encourages, as she points out, their increasing popularity.
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The Romanticization in Social Networks
A few minutes of Tiktok scrolling is enough for a video with the hashtag #sugarbabylife or #sugardaddies to pop up. According to #DesactivaLaTrata, these hashtags accumulate more than 1.6 billion visits. They show all kinds of luxuries and excesses.
Natalia Colmenar is the person in charge of DiaconaDiacona campaigns, an association that fights against trafficking. She explains it like this: “The first thing you see are videos saying all the gifts they give to the sugar babies or them showing their vacations.” Users of this social network are usually between 16 and 25 years old. From the NNGO,they warn that such a young audience, easily influenced can feel attracted to this lifestyle.
Clara Guilló points out that, in addition, this type of message fits better in societies where extremely commercial values prevail, such as ours. She explains it like this: “They occur in situations of inequality, where someone may have an advantage over someone else.”
How do These Apps Work?
Although in theory everything is allowed and these girls do not exceed any limit that they do not want to overcome, the reality is different. “You enter thinking that nothing is going to happen here and that they are only going to help me pay my expenses.” “But really, when you take the next step of having relations, you feel trapped,” says Conchi Rodrguez, director of Diaconia.
When she has talked to these men, Gisel has been promised that there would be noinvolvement in their dates, but she is wary: “You can get the idea that nothing they provide is totally free.”
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