Considering I can barely hold my own on Tinder, this was bound to be a disaster from the get go. There are a lot of things that seem scary until you actually do them, like going to the dentist or paying your taxes. Or, in some cases, signing up to a sugar baby website. For the uninitiated, these are dating sites specifically for young women seeking a rich older man.
I was. So, to take one for the team, I signed myself up as someone who is looking for "an arrangement". Going on a website like this is everything you are taught in school computer safety classes not to do. I liken it to when you would sneak onto the family computer with your friends to go on ChatRoulette and scream every time a penis popped up on the screen because your parents had no idea what the internet was yet.
The idea behind sugar babies and sugar daddies is that you meet much in the same way that a traditional dating website would allow you to meet, but there is the assumption that your presence in said man's life, would involve "more than friends" and you would get "paid in gifts". Considering I can barely hold my own on Tinder, this was bound to be nothing but a disaster from the get go.
First things first, you have to make a profile. Here you disclose everything from your height and weight to how much money you would require to stay a kept woman. Wanting to keep myself just a little mysterious I just didn't want anyone to stalk me, basically , I chose a photo where my face is partially shrouded by champagne flutes.
A high class enigma, you could say. A lot of these profiles of potential dates have no photos and almost all of them have strange usernames like "Urfavdad". Ooh, no thank you.
