[Ads-l] "sugar dating", "compensated dating", "arrangement"

Amy West medievalist at W-STS.COM
Wed Feb 16 12:55:36 UTC 2022


On 2/15/22 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:00:06 -0800
> From:    Nancy Friedman<wordworking at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: "sugar dating", "compensated dating", "arrangement"
>
> It may be parallel to “marry up”—marry someone in a higher economic class.


That was exactly my interpretation.

---Amy West


>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 7:27 AM Dan Goncharoff<thegonch at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I wonder if "date up" is a euphemism for "hook up".


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