sugar daddy : The term "sugar daddy" (" daddy cake Is a slang Anglicism used to refer to a relationship in which a man offers money and / or goods to a woman much younger than him.
This is sometimes referred to as "sugar baby", in exchange for services in kind (sexual relations, in particular). These relationships can also work with an older woman paying a young man: we talk about "sugar mommy" and "sugar boy" (gigolo). These relationships can also be homosexual relationships in the case of an elderly man or woman paying respectively a young man or a young woman for acts of escort or prostitution.
A sugar baby is generally defined as an attractive and ambitious young woman. Typically a student, she seeks a comfortable life and appreciates travel and gifts of all kinds, offering her company in exchange (and often more).
Sugar dating and prostitution: The phenomenon of "sugar dating" (mainly on the Internet) is most of the time assimilated to prostitution, so much so that the sites which sell it have been sued. To United States of America as France, justice has not found a way to indict one of these sites, they defend themselves by saying that they only put people of complementary interests in touch.
In 2017 in Belgium, the manager of one of these websites was sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence for inciting prostitution. In France, the investigation for “aggravated procuring” which was opened at the end of October 2017 by the Paris prosecutor's office against the same site is still ongoing.