There is a difference between sugar babies and "regular" civilian "crazy" women. It takes a more screwed up person to just meet older men for sex in what is a prostitution-type arrangement. The key distinction here is that most all of these sugar babies are borderline personality. Before you comment, look up the disorder. If you ask them questions, too, you will find that they all have Daddy issues or abuse in their backgrounds
I’m not really disagreeing with this, either; but I’d offer another line of distinction between certain behavioral patterns and your conclusions. When it comes to “civilians,” there are girls who typically spend some time in between guys, periodically date one guy at a time until that ends, and then continue spending time alone and in new relationships at various times. That’s probably the group who have fewer issues and no higher incidence of BPD than their broader cohorts. Then, there are “civilians” whose typical pattern in between relationships — and sometimes concurrently — is to get shit-faced in bars or go to clubs with their girls dressed DTF and hookup pretty regularly with random dudes...or just tease cocks all night
without actually hooking up, which I’d argue is even worse. Some of those girls are obviously the most fun, but I don’t think their psychology is much different from girls on SA; in fact, it might actually be more out of control and pathological because it usually involves alcohol (at least) and much more spontaneous, impulsive, and random interactions than many exchanges on SA leading to meetings and hookups.
On the SA side of things, I’d differentiate the ones doing it as a conscious and very deliberate means of regulator income who see many guys, just like an amateur provider, or an Indy provider, more accurately. There are also college types who just heard about it from friends, media, etc., who figured they’d create a profile and see what happens with it. They meet some guys until they like one enough to date, and because of the premise of the site, there’s a transactional dynamic. There are also horribly damaged women who have no problem duping guys with whom they have zero intention being with intimately, who make bank by dangling the prospect of sex while they milk him for as much as they can.
But the transactional dynamic really doesn’t have to define the whole relationship; and I can tell it’s definitely possible to start that way and end up in something much more substantial, even with the transactional component eventually being replaced by a shared life. Out of the 8 hours I spend with this girl, about 5 seconds of it consists of me placing some cash in the corner of the sink area. The rest of the time is basically exactly how my wife and I spent our first 100 or so dates, meeting weekly in hotels halfway between the City and the Island, and that lasted for like the first 2 years we were getting to know each other. But for the 5 second it takes to leave the cash, the rest of the time is indistinguishable from the way my wife and I got to know one another or how things would be going if we’d just met at some job and I was just the lucky schmuck she took a liking to. So, I just wouldn’t necessarily draw the BPD line in between SA types and civilians, because there’s both a lot of common behaviors and a lot of exceptions in both groups. (Sorry...it’s the Ambien again.)