After reading all the posts, and exchange in private, my conclusion about SB/SD is still the same.
Yes, in common with escorting: money exchanged for companionship. That's an agreement.
But it is requiring much more personal involvement and, as an escort/companion/courtesan point of view, who wants to remain independent of mind, of her choices in her life, is also having a regular life to take care, having goals... The idea to have someone almost full time in your life to take care and entertain is really time consuming and maybe too, too much intimate, and for less pay at the end for the time involved. You let someone completely enter your life, and plus, very dangerous, your "income" are all based on uniquely one provenance. So this could be a trap, "un couteau à 2 tranchants"... You can be stuck with someone the time you find another one... Of course, anyone who is really in need of money will take very good care of the unique source. This said, I know personally the grey zone, don't worry! That doesn't imply because money is involved, that necessarily that she hates/dislikes you, but that doesn't imply also that she is really in love with you also. And from the part of a SDaddy, I feel like the desire to "pet" someone much more on a long run for his own benefice and inner peace of mind. (sorry if "pet" is a wrong translation, but you get the idea...)
And don't forget everyone that in business (we can call it business because money is involved...), everybody are interchangeable. Yes, soft human relationships can be build in those agreements, I know! We can really care for each others! But that's still an agreement. Yes, with SB/SD agreement, you go further and are "in the life of each others more" but it is still what it is, an agreement.
What I heard from the moment, from some gentlemen and even previously by some fellow escorts friends, is the Sugar Baby route is a cheaper route for everything. I mean that you generally won't have the "level of quality" looked for both sides of the fence. In fact, what I understand of those agreement is that for a gentleman, you have to have the need to be involve to help/save/improve lives, and be able to give your advices and change for the best the life of your escort/companion/courtesan/sugar baby. (I wrote it like that because they are all in the same spectrum at a different place, and well, I see I put them in order of personal involvement....) and from the part of the Sbaby, you just need someone to take care of the regular steady expenses of life, and giving a bit of spoiling, in exchange of a lot of dedication/attention and a bit of intimacy.
And for what I heard also, in Quebec, gentlemen are more of the type "Spenda Daddy" than "Sugar Daddy", that's mean on the more cheap side and a lots of guys are just trying to find cheap escorts services. But girls are also on internet and are well informed generally speaking. They know the prices of an escort by hour.....
When I began, some hunting bargain guys tried with me to have deals, and they are still a bunge of those trying with the new women as well in our days. Those guys try to have deal with new indies as well, don't forget, as also new ladies in agencies escorts, giving their personal phone to skip the agencies fees after... All the way to pay the less. I don't blame, I can understand to have a limited budget OR to want to have the most for the less (and even much more when you are a sex addict) and instead to pay for only one encounter, being able to have 2 encounters with the same cash.
So for me, at first, that's a no-no that kind of agreement, I don't want to become the "pet" of someone unique and depend on only his good will on me.
But, if someone is really generous by recognizing my talents to their right values & not trying to deal, I could be open to some personal agreement of exclusivity, of course. But this has a prize. Some ladies companion are already offering it on their website, I did not check lately, but by example, Monica Del Fiore used to offer that on hers.
In fact, I imagine that they are as many difference between the kind of Sugar Babies than can exist as for escorts, companions, courtesans...
So, happy encountering everyone!
MD xox