George Collins and Dean Johnson were next door neighbors who got to where they were on very different paths. George was always about prestige and status. He needed to have the best car, the fanciest clothes, and the prettiest women by his side. He married Lucy, a stunning girl he met in college, right after they graduated. George was raised in a wealthy family, but the family's business had diminished over time.
Lucy felt George had the potential to increase his family's wealth again by expanding the business his parents had left him, after they both got sick and passed away. Her goal was to marry someone who could allow her to live the life of leisure and luxury she felt she deserved by being so beautiful. She manipulated George with her cock teasing ways and rewarding him with sex if he bought her presents and took her out to fancy dinners and on exotic vacations.
After they married, they both got jobs and she insisted they buy the nicest house on the block to show to their neighbors that they were going to be wealthy, when that wasn't the case yet. She encouraged George that they should have a baby right away, so she would be guaranteed child support if he ever grew tired of trying to support her.
Their daughter Christine, who they called Chrissie, had Lucy's genes, and grew into a beautiful woman. She had long straight black hair and blue eyes and looked like she could have been in an Irish step dancing group.
George and Lucy's neighbor Dean took a different path. His family was poor, and he worked very hard to get himself through college with part time jobs and college loans. He dated different women, but they all grew tired of being second priority to his obsession of becoming wealthy. He was not materialistic, he just wanted to be successful in business to prove to everyone that put him down as he was growing up that he was as good as his friends who came from wealthy families.
He bought the house next to George and Lucy, which was the smallest and oldest house on the block. He always wore casual low priced clothes and drove an old car. But after hard work, some luck, and the connections he developed, he had quietly built and sold a tech company. He didn't have to work anymore but kept busy managing his investments and had an idea for a European based new company. No one on the street, including George and Lucy, knew that he had become independently wealthy.
As much as George tried to revive the family business, over the years it declined, through no fault of George, just brutal competition from larger competitors. Further hurting his finances was Lucy's spending habits. She had become a stay at home mother to Chrissie but wasn't much of a mother. She often left Chrissie to babysitters so she could go out and party, gamble, shop and have affairs with various younger men.
Lucy realized one day that George was broke and decided to take off with one of her lovers, a fellow alcoholic and drug addict. He left Chrissie with George when Chrissie was eighteen, which was devastating to her, as she mistakenly thought that her mother leaving had something to do with her.
George was protective of Chrissie, worrying that she might become promiscuous and a partier like her mother, so he had enrolled her in an all-women's high school. She graduated with honors, and he then sent her to an all-women's college, where she was studying computer science. Chrissie was also afraid of becoming like her mother, so she was monogamous with anyone she dated in college. George did spoil her though and she got used to having a lot of material things like her mother.
She became puzzled in her sophomore year that her dad seemed to be short of money all the time and was paying her tuition late and couldn't buy her the clothes and other things she was used to. She had a friend in school, Emma, who always seemed to have the latest clothes, a new car, lots of jewelry and went on exotic vacations, but came from a middle class family. She decided to ask Emma about how she got the things that Chrissie's dad couldn't afford anymore.
"Emma, how do you manage to always have such nice things and live so extravagantly? Did your parents win the lottery or something?" she smiled.
Emma looked at Chrissie with some hesitation at first about telling Chrissie about her secret life. "Chrissie, have you ever heard about sugar dating?"
"Yes, but I don't know much about it. I've heard of the terms sugar daddy and sugar baby."
"You date older men, who are wealthy. Sometimes they are married and sometimes they are single and just don't want the hassle of marriage or a serious relationship. They like the idea of dating a pretty young woman who would be out of their league if it wasn't for their money."
"Do you have sex with them?"
"Of course. Some women brag on social media that they can get men to pay them just to be platonic friends and not be intimate with them and they influence other women that any wealthy man would go along with that. But realistically how many successful men want to just be friends with a college girl?"
"So, what do you get from them in return for having sex with them?"
"Sometimes sugar daddies just take you to expensive dinners, concerts and sporting events and take you on vacations. They call those experience daddies. Others will also pay some or all your bills, including college tuition. Others will give you cash, based upon a PPM or a monthly allowance."
"What is a PPM or a monthly allowance?"
PPM means pay per meet. Every time you go on a date with them, they pay you. If they trust you, they might eventually pay you a certain amount each month in advance, with the understanding that you will go on a certain number of dates with them each month."
"Emma, this whole thing sounds like prostitution."
Emma looked at Chrissie and gave her the speech that those in the lifestyle tell others to convince them that it is not prostitution. "Prostitution, or escorting, whatever you want to call it, involves a payment based on an hourly rate, between people who are anonymous. Sugaring is basically dating with financial support. You want to avoid falling love with each other and have a no strings attached arrangement, but ideally there is an emotional connection and a mutually beneficial relationship."
"Don't these men worry about getting in trouble or getting scammed?"
"Sure, there are different terms used in the 'sugar bowl' about men's concerns. They can get someone pretending to be a young woman but is really a dude sitting in his mom's basement or in another country, trying to get money in advance. They can get 'catfished' or 'fat fished,' where the girl uses old pictures from when she was younger or much thinner."
"Wow, there is a whole set of terms in the 'sugar bowl,' as you call it?"
"Yeah, men are also worried about rinsers or ATM behavior."
"What's that?"
"Rinsers are women who have no intention of having sex with them, but just string them along, going on 'meet and greets,' where they want money to just go to dinner with them. ATM is when a girl acts like the guy has an unlimited supply of money."
"They also worry about starfishes."
"What's that?"
"Women who just lay there unenthusiastically while having sex, which is sometimes understandable when the guy is fat, ugly or really old, or all three!"
