Blurred lines: Technologies of heterosexual coercion in “sugar dating”

IF 2.2 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Feminism & Psychology Pub Date : 2021-08-09 DOI:10.1177/09593535211030749

Rocío Palomeque Recio

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Abstract

“Sugar dating” is the practice of establishing a “mutually beneficial relationship” between an older, affluent male – Sugar Daddy – and a younger, financially disempowered female – Sugar Baby. Although the figure of the “Sugar Daddy” has become commonplace in popular culture, this area of study remains largely unexplored, especially in the UK. Among the numerous websites that have mushroomed in the last decades in this country, Seeking.com stands out not only for providing an online meet-up place for Sugar Daddies and Babies, but also for serving as the matrix where the “sugar” discourse is constructed. The site functions as a discursive producer of the subject, inasmuch as Sugar Babies and Daddies are subjected and subjugated through a process of assujettissement by this kind of discursive power. Interviews conducted with four women who had recently acted as Sugar Babies showed how this discourse permeates the subjects and acts as a “technology of coercion” that works to perpetuate hegemonic notions of heterosexuality and undermines the participants” agency to refuse to engage in sexual intercourse, effectively “blurring the lines” of sexual consent.

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模糊的界限:“糖约会”中的异性恋强迫技术

“糖约会”指的是在一个年长、富裕的男性——“糖爹”和一个年轻、没有经济实力的女性——“糖娃”之间建立一种“互利关系”的做法。尽管“甜心老爹”的形象在流行文化中已经司空见惯，但这一研究领域在很大程度上仍未被探索，尤其是在英国。在这个国家过去几十年如雨后春笋般涌现的众多网站中，Seeking.com脱颖而出，不仅因为它为“糖爹”和“糖宝宝”提供了一个在线聚会场所，还因为它是构建“糖”话语的母体。场地作为主体的话语生产者，因为糖宝宝和爸爸们在这种话语力量的压迫组织过程中被臣服和征服。对最近出演过《糖宝宝》的四位女性的采访表明，这种话语是如何渗透到主题中，并作为一种“强制技术”，使异性恋的霸权观念永续存在，破坏了参与者拒绝性交的能动性，有效地“模糊了”性同意的界限。

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