Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. It has come to our attention that prostitutes may be operating around the building at various restaurants or bars including the ground floor champagne and oyster bar,” it read. The fantasy of sugar dating: ‘They don’t want you to be a sex worker – they just want to pay you for sex. She guides us through sugar dates, from kinky dinners to hotel rooms, while embarking on her personal journey of self-discovery and the unwavering realisation of "how much loneliness is in the world. I felt lightly exploited, or at least confused at how I'd ended up giving out sexual favours, on weekdays, to married men for free.

With the cost of living crisis casting a shadow over our lives, there’s been a spike in signups to sugar-dating sites this year. Lotte is an artist, sex worker and author of upcoming memoir “Dear Mr Andrews” (Guts Publishing ’23). Written in swift, clear-eyed prose, Latham's wry, insightful narrator is an erotic ethnographer who has managed to convince this late-born Boomer that if you can't be honest, at least be true. I felt lightly exploited, or at least confused at how I’d ended up giving out sexual favours, on weekdays, to married men for free. The way that the sugar platforms market themselves is not as prostitution or sex work, they're saying it's just a sensible lifestyle choice for women and it’s targeted at those who want to improve their lives by ‘dating up’.

The world of sugar dating and escorting is for most of us relatively unknown and made of clichés and prejudice. Susanna Kleeman, author of Twice 'Written in swift, clear-eyed prose, Latham's wry, insightful narrator is an erotic ethnographer who has managed to convince this late-born Boomer that if you can't be honest, at least be true.

The market has got much more competitive, which isn't a bad thing, but it's skewing the tables in favour of the people that have the power and means. I’m reluctant to say the shift from sugar-dating to escorting has led to resolve – but it’s a cleaner cut.And terms like “high-value dating” and “hypergamy” have had hundreds of millions of views on TikTok, detailing tactics for women to meet “high-value” men – meaning, those with money. Latham finds the language of sugar dating – “pampering”, “sponsor”, “mutually beneficial relationships” – deeply disingenuous.

Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Filthy and fascinating - a frank, complex, thoughtful memoir, told in a (mostly) one-sided epistolary format. She explained: “The people I tended to go on dates with were professional class; doctors, lots of lawyers, people that worked in politics and, increasingly, tech companies. Part of her healing process was documenting her story in a book, Dear Mr Andrews, an illustrated memoir addressed to a sugar daddy who didn’t come good on his side of the bargain.The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. That isn't a very clean exchange at all and I kind of resented myself for even putting on that ruse to try and get hold of anything.

View image in fullscreen ‘I’ve heard of there being 25 women to every man’: Lotte Latham, author of Dear Mr Andrews.Counter to the perception that there’s an equal playing field for all, it also tends to work out more lucratively for conventionally good-looking, able-bodied, white, cisgender sugar-babies. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.