according to the pigs in law enforcement, what about a stay at home wife is that prostitution too? what if you actually enjoy everything such as conversation ,dinners, you celibrate holidays ,birthdays, know the man's fav food, music, know each other for many years and he is the one and only man in your life? is that prostitution?
If I meet a man who is looking for a woman to spoil and gives me cash in addition to gifts, is this viewed as prostitution? Of course the relationship is sexual but there's not an offer of services?
If the arrangement involves him giving you money (or anything valuable) and you providing sex in return, it qualifies as prostitution. The lack of an actual offer does not change this fact, but would make it harder for the government to prove its case. I don't think these cases are prosecuted very often, but there is a risk.
according to the pigs in law enforcement, what about a stay at home wife is that prostitution too? what if you actually enjoy everything such as conversation ,dinners, you celibrate holidays ,birthdays, know the man's fav food, music, know each other for many years and he is the one and only man in your life? is that prostitution?
Maybe I didn't explain as well as I could have when I talked about a man providing money and a woman "providing sex in return." It is only prostitution if the woman provides sex in exchange for the money. A wife who stays home isn't selling sex, she's the man's partner in life. Yes, he gives her money and yes, they have sex, but neither is given as a trade for the other.
Most wives won't stop sleeping with their husbands just because a layoff prevents him from giving her money, and most husbands won't stop paying the bills just because they aren't getting enough sex this month. I don't think sugar daddy relationships work the same way.
Besides, the typical sugar daddy doesn't let his lady friend live with him or share in the raising of his children, or make long-term plans together with her. Your question asks about a situation involving "the one and only man in your life", but I think this goes against the very definition of "sugar baby", don't you?
It will often be hard for police to tell the difference between a sugar baby and a legitimate girlfriend, and even harder to persuade a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the relationship is based on a sale of sex. But difficulty of proof does not mean that the parties aren't guilty.
I don't think this qualifies as prostitution; here's why. It's not $$ for ONLY sex. If you're "kept", you're providing more than sex as there is more relationship than straight hours of sex. The court in the Lee Marvin case called it a "meretricious relationship", not prostitution, though they actually lived together.
I'd not be concerned at all as I doubt there's ever been a prosecution of a sugar daddy case
If memory serves (it might not, since I wasn't paying that much attention at the time), Michelle Triola wasn't Lee Marvin's sugar baby. They had a long-term romantic live-in relationship, even though he was legally married to someone else at the time. I don't think she could fairly be called his sugar baby because, like Marybeth said in her post, he was her one and only.
I don't think he was married. I also se no or little difference between a sugar-daddy and a live-in. After a while, the sugar leaves or the daddy goes if they don't like each other quite a bit.
The analysis is the same whether Marvin was married at the time or not. And if you don't understand the difference between a suggar daddy and a live-in, you might want to re-examine your own interpersonal relationships. Do you understand the difference between a girlfriend and an escort? If you invite your girlfriend to move in, she is a live-in. If you hire the escort and invite her to move in, you are her sugar daddy. Simple.
A live-in is like a stay-at-home wife in the sense that she shares a life with the man. She is not using his money to fund her own separate life and their relationship is not built on the exchange of sex for money. The fact that only the man is working doesn't make the woman a prostitute just because she gets his money to spend on their shared household.
One reason sugar daddies and their lady friends aren't prosecuted more often is that, from the outside, it can be hard to tell what kind of relationship two people are in. But the two people themselves will know whether it's legit or not.