ABSTRACT

Sugar dating is a form of dating typically characterized by wealthier, older men providing financial support to younger, less financially secure women in exchange for companionship and sexual intimacy. The goals of the current study were to (1) quantitatively assess the sexual practices of sugar dating women in their arrangements with sugar daddies, including time spent on sexual activity, average number of current partners, and relative perceptions of relationship power, (2) examine how perceptions of power within arrangements relate to condom use with sugar daddies, and (3) compare samples of sugar dating and non-sugar dating women on both condom use consistency by partner type and rates of STI testing and diagnoses. Overall, condom use for all women was highest with casual sexual partners and lowest with romantic partners, with sugar dating women’s condom use with sugar daddies in between. Consistent with social exchange theory, perception of power within sugar dating arrangements predicted condom use with sugar daddies, such that women who felt they held more power reported more consistent condom use. Further, sugar dating women were twice as likely to have been diagnosed with an STI but were more than six times as likely to have been tested for STIs.

摘要

糖约会是一种约会形式，其典型特征是更富有、年长的男性向年轻、经济上不太安全的女性提供经济支持，以换取陪伴和性亲密。当前研究的目标是（1）定量评估糖约会女性与糖爹安排的性行为，包括花在性活动上的时间、当前伴侣的平均数量以及对关系力量的相对感知，（2）检查安排中对权力的看法如何与傍大款的避孕套使用相关，以及 (3) 比较糖约会和非糖约会女性的样本，按伴侣类型和 STI 检测和诊断率的安全套使用一致性。总体而言，所有女性的安全套使用率最高的是休闲性伴侣，而最低的是浪漫伴侣，与糖约会女性避孕套使用介于两者之间的傍大款。与社会交换理论一致，糖约会安排中的权力感知预测了与傍大款的使用安全套，因此认为自己拥有更多权力的女性报告更一致地使用安全套。此外，糖约会女性被诊断患有 STI 的可能性是其两倍，但接受 STI 检测的可能性是其六倍以上。