"From Baby to Bride: Can 'sugar' relationships be a path to real love?"
"From Baby to Bride Can 'sugar' relationships be a path to real love?" is ridiculous and not Red-Pill aware, but it does engage ideas from my own sex-work essay, "How to use Seeking Arrangements for fun and profit." Most of the time (the overwhelming majority) paid sex will not lead to anything more. But:
I use variations of the online dating pics I already have. These are effective. The fatter, older, and uglier you are, the more SA is like standard hooking. The younger, fitter, and more attractive you are, the closer it can be to online dating. Again, the key word is “can,” because you still need game.
You also NEED:
Ultra-strong frame
High level of assertiveness.
If you lack either you will be owned. Sex workers are masters of frame and if you don’t maintain extremely strong frame, she will crush you. A guy always needs to maintain the idea that she needs him more than he needs her, and that is more true in paid situations.
Sex workers are sex workers but they're also just chicks, and like most chicks they're on the lookout for love.
I also don't believe this: "Over time she settled on the price of $500 for a dinner, wine, and sex arrangement—a somewhat standard price among the sugar babies I interviewed." $500 is too high. I think the sex workers are either lying or extremely attractive. Or there are more rich, stupid guys out there than I would have thought.
Things like this: "They agreed that he would pay for her gas to come and see him but didn’t need to pay her regular fee" have happened, more or less, to me. Whether it happens depends on the girl and the guy. Plus, for all my talk about game, interpersonal compatibility does matter. Losing chicks doesn't bother me much, but losing the ones I really like still does, because there aren't that many of them.
"Dan" in the Slate story is still a loser. Don't be Dan and do extremely beta things like buy cars for "former" sex workers, or any woman. If you do that, you're still just paying for sex. The minute Dan's money runs out, "Sarah" is gone.
Feminists and Blue Pill people more generally are obsessed with men financially subsidizing women. That makes some sense, because traditional marriage is an arrangement in which a man subsidizes a woman who bears his children, with financial compensation there because she's out of the labor market, often for years, due to pregnancy and childcare. But today, women spend little time out of the labor market, and what they offer (sex) can be easily found outside of marriage. So Red Pill guys learn not to marry ("Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"), but feminists and most normal women still want a man who will financially subsidize them.