Gunnarsson Lena, Strid Sofia
School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University.
J Sex Res. 2022 Mar-Apr;59(3):309-320. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2021.1952155. Epub 2021 Jul 21.
With the emergence and global proliferation of "sugar dating" websites, the phenomenon of sugar dating is gaining increased attention. Sugar dating is described by these websites as arrangements based on an exchange of financial or other forms of support for intimacy and companionship. The framing of sugar dating as something in between a business transaction and mutually enjoyable dating serves as the point of departure of this article, which draws on semi-structured interviews and a survey questionnaire with "sugar daddies" engaged in heterosexual sugar dating in Sweden. We examined how the tension between economic instrumentality and the ideal of mutual enjoyment is played out in "sugar daddies'" accounts of their sugar dating experiences. We demonstrate that the participants desire encounters with "sugar babies" to be based on both sexual and relational mutuality, i.e., they want the women to enjoy being with them beyond the economic rewards. We show that the men's use of economic incentives to gain access to "sugar babies" stands in a relationship of tension with their desire for interactions to be based on mutuality. However, through various mechanisms they still manage to reap the fruits of the experience of mutuality offered in sugar dating encounters.
随着“甜心约会”网站的出现及其在全球范围内的扩散，甜心约会现象越来越受到关注。这些网站将甜心约会描述为一种基于以金钱或其他形式的支持换取亲密关系和陪伴的安排。将甜心约会界定为介于商业交易和相互愉悦的约会之间的某种行为，是本文的出发点，本文借鉴了对瑞典参与异性恋甜心约会的“糖爹”进行的半结构化访谈和调查问卷。我们研究了经济功利性与相互愉悦的理想之间的紧张关系在“糖爹”对其甜心约会经历的描述中是如何体现的。我们证明，参与者希望与“糖宝”的邂逅基于性和关系的相互性，也就是说，他们希望女性除了经济回报之外，也享受与他们在一起的时光。我们表明，男性利用经济激励来接近“糖宝”的行为与他们希望互动基于相互性的愿望存在紧张关系。然而，通过各种机制，他们仍然设法收获了甜心约会邂逅中所提供的相互性体验的成果。
