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The Secret World of Sugar BabiesMore college-age women than ever are taking to the web to find sugar daddies who'll pay for tuition, trips, and designer bags…but the perks come at a steep price.
Lots of girls are jealous of Abby*, 19, a brunette business major in Louisville, Kentucky, for landing
such an amazing boyfriend. She raves about her amazing connection with Michael, a handsome 36-year-
old doctor who is happy to spend weekends together at the symphony, appreciates her cooking so much
he's offered to pay for culinary school, and isn't afraid to commit to a monogamous relationship, even inviting
her to move into his mansion. The thing that those other girls don't know Abby's relationship started through SeekingArrangement.com, a site that connects wealthy sugar daddies with attractive young women for mutually beneficial arrangements.
In February, a friend of Abby's who uses the site recommended it to her. Recently out of a long-term relationship, Abby thought it might be something fun to try. I'd never done anything like this or even been on a dating site, she says. "I just thought, 'Maybe I'll get to go somewhere fabulous or on a few fancy dates.'" Soon, Abby was inundated with messages from men. Before getting serious with Michael, she met up with six sugar daddies one 40 years her senior and although she dismissed two right away, she continued relationships with the others. The men took her on first-class vacations, put her up in $500-a-night suites, offered to fund her start-up idea, spent several hundred dollars a day on her clothes, or offered to contribute to her college tuition every time she saw them.
"I pay for school myself and it's been a struggle, so the offers are tempting. I currently have about $30,000 in loans and more to go before graduation," says Abby, who has accepted about $3,000 in cash from three sugar daddies, including Michael. Abby doesn't consider dating sugar daddies prostitution because she sleeps only with men she's attracted to. "With the men besides Michael and one other guy, there was a blatant up-front sexual expectation, and the irony is that Michael and the other guy are the only men I've slept with," she says. "Even when I went on a three-day trip with one man, I stayed in a separate hotel room. I had no attraction to him and nothing happened between us, so he broke it off when we got back."
Abby's not the only bright, educated young woman who's choosing to become what's called a sugar baby. According to Seeking Arrangement, there was a 58 percent increase in coed sign-ups last year, and 44 percent of the site's sugar babies are enrolled in college. The most active schools, according to the site's surveys, are Georgia State University, New York University, Temple University, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Southern Florida. The women receive an average of $3,000 a month in gifts, meals, clothes, and cash. Seeking Arrangement isn't the only name in the game, with competitors like SugarDaddyForMe.com, MutualArrangements.com, and more sites that promise high-rollers.
With rising student-loan debt and a disappointing job market for millennials, trading time and intimacy for money may not seem so unreasonable. But it doesn't come without risks, both physical and psychological. In 2011, a Florida judge sentenced a man to life in prison for raping at knifepoint a 22-year-old woman he met on a sugar-daddy site. Emma, a 21-year-old University of Louisville student who is open with friends and family about dating sugar daddies (she says they tell her to live it up while she's young), has encountered her own scare. "I'd been talking to a guy in Beverly Hills for months, and I told him I wasn't comfortable sleeping with him the first time we met. He said, 'That's okay, I just want some company,' and flew me out there," she says. "But when I got there, he tried to push me to get physical, and he wouldn't take no for an answer. I left early and never talked to him again. I was alone, vulnerable, and across the country from home. It made me wonder what would have happened if I didn't get it under control," she says.
Emma first joined the site two years ago, after a painful breakup with a cheating live-in boyfriend who left her heartbroken and in debt. Her arrangements start with a message from a potential daddy that leads to e-mailing back and forth. If she feels a connection, she gives him her phone number. They text, talk, and then Skype before she agrees to an in-person meeting, since all have involved her flying to the men's cities. In addition to giving her cash for school, they also pay for designer purses and shoes, new outfits, $500 hair extensions every other month, tanning sessions, and her phone bill. She hammers out the details before meeting, making clear that she won't have sex the first weekend they meet and that she requires her own hotel room and telling the men how much cash she wants to spend the weekend she sees them (usually $1,000, although a man recently surprised her with $3,000). Other than the pushy Beverly Hills guy, she's had three arrangements through the site and gotten intimate with two of the men. One man who pays for her time is married, and although he wants dirty photos and Skype sessions, they've never gotten physical because he considers that cheating. "These guys are buying my companionship, not just sex. Sometimes they just need someone to talk to. And when I feel a connection, why not get intimate I'm not a prostitute. I don't sleep with anyone I'm not attracted to, so it's more like a relationship."
If being a sugar baby isn't prostitution, the two unquestionably overlap in the sexual-politics Venn diagram. "Both prostitutes and sugar babies are bought by men willing to pay them to be sexually available, and they're both damaging acts," says Kathleen Barry, PhD, author of The Prostitution of Sexuality. "Unlike prostitutes, sugar babies have a delusion about their autonomythey believe that paying their tuition without loans or carrying a Prada bag makes up for whatever they're giving away. These young women may act with bravado, but they often feel shame. The power inequality mostly benefits the daddy," she says, "leaving the baby as powerless and dependent as her namesake."
Brandon Wade, the 43-year-old CEO of Seeking Arrangement, sees a wider gulf between sugar babies and prostitutes. He found himself with a graduate degree from MIT and a six-figure income, but he kept striking out with online dating. In 2006, he launched the site as a way for frustrated guys like himself to meet women. (Incidentally, he dated a few women through the site but met his wife when she came in for a job interview.)
"A prostitute's transaction with a customer is linear and nonemotional, while a sugar daddy and baby relationship is more complex. Most resemble a typical boyfriend-girlfriend relationship but with an added financial incentive," he says. Seeking Arrangement claims to screen user complaints and to use software to cross-reference Craigslist posts and escort websites in order to weed out direct sex-for-cash profiles, and Wade claims to kick off up to 100 alleged escorts per day. "Honestly, if a guy is just looking to pay for sex, there are easier and cheaper places to find it online," he says. "For our users, sex is never a requirement of the relationship, although it may be aspired to, so the sugar daddy is no different than a wealthy boyfriend who loves to spoil his girlfriend." "