A new documentary is set to hit our screens in December, which will lift the lid on the sugar daddy dating phenomenon; an industry which is quietly booming in the U. Daddies Date Babies follows the trials and tribulations of five New York-based 'sugar babies' in their late teens to twenties who provide sex and companionship to 'sugar daddies' - wealthy, generally older men - in return for financial support.
Scroll down to watch trailer. Lucrative: New documentary Daddies Date Babies follows five 'sugar babies' in their late teens to twenties who provide sex and companionship to 'sugar daddies' - wealthy, older men - in return for financial support. The concept behind the short documentary was formed after filmmaker Parinda Wanitwat happened across immersive journalist Melanie Berliet 's undercover account on being a 'sugar baby,' penned for Vanity Fair.
Launched in , Seeking Arrangement matches willing sugar babies - 44per cent of whom are female college students - with wealthy sugar daddies. It's free to join for women, and there are approximately eight women for every one man on the site.
It seemed like a very available option. It seemed easy to fall into. Trauma: This woman specifically admits to being raped. Ms Wood, who says she agreed to take part in the documentary to 'deconstruct the stigma' of sugar daddy dating, has enjoyed both success and disappointment as part of her experience. She has been involved in 'mutually beneficial' relationships in Chicago, New York and Florida, and feels that the 'shame' people feel around sex and sex work needs to shift. Many of the sugar daddies on Seeking Arrangement are 'verified,' which means they have been subject to a full background check and had their high incomes confirmed by their tax returns.
Still, a number of men Ms Wood has been involved with, she says, either promised money that never appeared, or lead her to 'fear' for her safety; and she now no longer partakes in sugar daddy dating.
