Sugaring as a deviant career

Modes of entering sugar relationships and social stigmas

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2153572
AutoresMaren T Scull (0000-0002-0006-5491, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, US, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen44
Número4
Páginas528-550
Fecha de publicación2023-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDeviant Behavior (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01639625.2022.2061391
OpenAlexW4226335333
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas73

While the research on sugaring has expanded in recent years, there are still many gaps in our understanding of these relationships and how women begin them. Therefore, in this paper I draw from 48 in-depth interviews to understand the methods by which women enter into sugar arrangements and the extent to which this process is intentional, inadvertent, or coerced. Specifically, I draw from the literature on deviant careers to discuss three modes of entry which include drifting, entering via conscious decision, and entering defensively. Additionally, I focus on the public and enacted stigmas women experience once they enter the sugar lifestyle. Specifically, these stigmas came in the form of others conflating sugaring with prostitution, receiving negative reactions due to the age disparity between sugar partners, being labeled immoral, and being called a "greedy gold digger

Biology · Criminology · Focus (optics · Political science · Sociology · Sugar · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology