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- This paper talks about how feelings and relationships are important when it comes to money and connections between people, especially in sugar dating.
- It looks at how emotions affect the way people negotiate payments and build emotional ties, trying to find a balance where things don't feel too business-like or too personal.
- The paper also explores why sugar dating is different from other kinds of sexual relationships and argues that some people believe you can't really sell true feelings or intimacy.
Article Abstract
Following Viviana Zelizer's extensive scholarship on the interweaving of money and intimacy, this paper discusses the often overlooked yet critical role of affect in the production of relational work and in the success of relational packages. Drawing from the results of a grounded-theory-driven research study on sugar dating, the motions through which affect seeps through and structures negotiations of payments and emotional attachment are explored. The paper discusses the management of feelings as a component of relational work-so that arrangements neither feel too transactional nor too intimate-as well as the role that affect plays in differentiating sugar dating from illicit sexual transactions. It also contributes to the literature on sugar dating and sex work by critically discussing the limits of the commodification of intimate services and affect under a dominant belief system that rejects the possibility of selling "real" intimacy.
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