Being a sugar baby may sound easy β you just have to show up and look pretty β but in reality, it is a harsh, competitive world of high expectations and hard work. Yet many millennials across the world choose to make a living by it. We spoke to two of them in Berlin. She had a sugar daddy. I once saw a documentary about sugar babies and it kind of stuck with me.
I was curious whether I could do it. So I signed up to Seeking Arrangement and within a few days I had a full calendar. Well, most of the time. Sometimes it is surprising how anxious a man can be despite being successful and rich. She also listed her qualifications, body measurements and wrote a short essay about her future plans signalling to daddies that she was the girl to take to fancy dinners, banquets and on trips.
At the beginning I would go on all the dates just to see what was out there, and then I started selecting my daddies. Most of them were usually in town for a few days in between business trips. Sometimes I would go and sometimes I would turn it down because I was in university. But somehow I felt that a trip could bring the expectation of sex.
But it was a lot of work on top of her MA studies. I had to remember which client got me which perfume, dress or accessories and wear those on our dates.
I went to the gym 4 times a week to be in good shape, to the hairdresser, nail salon, waxing⦠it is actually hard work! I know it sounds lame, but it was tiring. These were all under 60, strong, charismatic and attractive men. Samira had no intention of taking on a new sugar daddy when she met John on Seeking Arrangement. And to be honest, he did sweep me away on our first date. He was amazing: polite, well-read and well-travelled, he spoke many languages.
