Is it OK for a Christian to be a “sugar baby” or to engage in “sugar dating”?
Question:
Is it OK for a Christian to be a "sugar baby" or to engage in "sugar dating"?
Answer:
"Sugar Dating" is described as one partner who is wealthy and often older, giving financial support to someone in exchange for companionship and sexual intimacy.
The relationship puts pleasure before righteousness. It is wrong because it involves fornication and lewdness. It also reduces relationships to a money transaction. "For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for gain, and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely" (Jeremiah 6:13). Sex in exchange for money is just another form of prostitution (I Corinthians 6:15).
Question:
Thanks for the response, brother.
The assertion by some on this is that maybe it’s ok if it’s not in exchange for sexual favors. Would it be acceptable then if that’s the case? If you receive gifts or money in exchange for companionship only?
Answer:
It still reduces relationships to a monetary transaction. Is it a true relationship if someone is "friends" with you because you give them gifts?
"Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; when they have something to bite with their teeth, they cry, "Peace," but against him who puts nothing in their mouths they declare holy war" (Micah 3:5).
"Many will seek the favor of a generous man, and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts. All the brothers of a poor man hate him; how much more do his friends abandon him! He pursues them with words, but they are gone" (Proverbs 19:6-7).
