EPISODE 3 – VOGUE: FOR LOVE OR MONEY?
Sugar Daddies, Sugar Mommas and Sugar Babies are all terms that exist in the world of online sugar dating where websites are matching up rich older men and women with young attractive partners so that both can mutually benefit from the arrangement. Vogue explores the phenomenon from both perspectives as she learns from sugar dating guru, Brook Urick, that there are reportedly 22,000 Irish people signed up to one sugar dating website alone, looking to live the lavish dating lifestyle. Vogue herself has been propositioned by rich older men on twitter and is intrigued to find out more about the benefactor, sugar baby relationship and so she meets the sugar babies having sex for gifts and exotic holidays, and dines with Danish sugar daddy, Lars, who believes that women exist to be spoiled. At a Dublin Sugar Coaching Event, Vogue gets tutored on how a sugar baby should behave before heading to Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival to see just how far digital dating has brought us from the days of finding love at the dance. Vogue delves deep into the complex world of ‘sugaring’ and finds that there’s a darker side to the glamorous façade of the sugar lifestyle sold online.
SERIES SYNOPSIS
Vogue Williams is back with an ambitious three-part series for RTE 2 that takes on some of the most relevant and engaging issues facing us today. Vogue’s innate curiosity plunges her into the world of solo mums through sperm donation, anxiety and the debilitating effects of its spectrum of disorders, and the modern phenomena of online ‘sugar dating’.
VOGUE: GOING IT ALONE At 31, Vogue, like most women her age is getting broody and her maternal urge has made her wonder, if her relationship didn’t work out could she have a baby alone? In episode one of this thought provoking series, Vogue meets the brave Irish women embracing the mother only model and explores the science that has allowed this become a choice that more and more women are making today.
VOGUE: MY ANXIOUS LIFE Vogue’s own battle with anxiety has led her on a quest to discover if there is a cure for this silent epidemic in episode two. On this journey Vogue realises the spectrum of disorders that have devastated the anxiety sufferers she meets around the country, as she discovers the unique treatments that are working for them.
VOGUE: FOR LOVE OR MONEY? With the explosion of digital dating, Vogue takes a closer look one of the latest avenues, ‘sugar dating’, the matching of rich older men with young attractive women. In episode three Vogue gets a real insight into what a ‘sugar arrangement’ involves as she meets with young sugar babies at home and abroad.