What’s the difference between prostitution and sugaring? After all, both involve sex for money.
The News Lens
Date: 2018/10/17
By: Jules Quartly
Not only was prostitution the world’s first profession, it will probably be the last one, too.
Credit: taiwan-sugar.net
Online sugar babies and daddies, with savvy website owners effectively acting as pimps, would appear to be one of the latest iterations of this ubiquitous business and one that is growing in popularity in Taiwan.
Technically, sugaring could be considered as another import from the United States, where it is popular as a dating service for students, who are said to comprise 42 percent of the babes on SeekingArrangement.
Taiwan-sugar.net is the number one website locally and promises confidentiality, privacy, safety and “quality.” Naturally, the girls are all marketed as beauties and the boys as “noble” and “gentle.” Butterflies, bucolic backgrounds and dappled sunlight, a teen biting her lip or wearing a crown of flowers: these are the kind of images that draw men to the site. It all shies as far away as possible from the nuts and bolts of what is really going on.
One of the babes on the site, a pouting Tang Tang (“Sweety”), is a 19-year-old student from Taipei. She claims to come from a single-parent family (indicating financial need) and has worked since she was young to support herself (subtext, she’s not a hustler). She thanks her sugar daddy for helping her get through college (by paying for sex), where she studied literature and music (she’s classy). [FULL STORY]