Should men who can't find a date go for a "kept woman"?

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

Nowadays people talk about "sugar babies" and "sugar daddies" as if they are a new development of the 2010s, but the practice of keeping a paid relationship is actually quite ancient - in Europe at least, nobles, monarchy and rich bourgeois would keep paid mistresses whose only job was to be a partner for the (usually) married man who paid for their livelihood.

The key difference is that a "sugar baby" arrangment is almost always low class, and both parties involved don't seem to have a minimum of etiquette - while the kept woman wasn't paid exclusively to look pretty, but was often required to be well-read and cultured, and a big deal was that she was also to be a good conversationalist and overall an engaging company.

Finally, unlike the "Sugar babies", which are usually kept by desperate and/or unappealing lonely men, the kept woman was "employed" by an alleway married man and it was more a status symbol than anything else.

[NathanDavis]

you mean the same "men" that cry and whine over a 50 dollar date and she didn't put out? lmfao...

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

... lol

[OlderAndWiser]

Fortunately, I have always had women available for dating and I finally found The One.

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

Yes, I meant those guys that for some reason can't manage to find someone to date.
That said, I wouldn't mind paying for a "kept woman" who would help me with building my plastic dioramas.

[Avicenna]

The problem with that is such a woman is going to be an opportunist, looking for a better deal, especially since a lot more is being asked of her. You can get such a woman if you have enough money to spend on her, but most men do not.

[Avicenna]

And a man who can afford to support such a woman is already by definition desirable to plenty of women and so wouldn't have any trouble getting a woman.

[Jamie05rhs]

In America, that arrangement is called "marriage." Lol

[Jamie05rhs]

I'm being sarcastic here, of course.

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

Well, in some marriages here not too many years ago the wife too was a "kept woman" of sorts...

[Jamie05rhs]

Exactly. Haha

[slatyb]

Men who can afford such an arrangement have considerable financial resources.

[CozyCoffin]

I'd rather die than do any of those arrangements.

[Unit1]

They can do that if they want to. I understand why they do it.

[exitseven]

I think you need money to do that

[Anonymous]

Sure, if she puts out.

[Juxtapose]

Where is the sincerity in that arrangement?