Patriarchy, ergo, hooker

Read this article and saw the key line rationalizing the whole being-a-hooker thing and thought, "Holy non-sequiturs, Batman!" If we lived in a patriarchy, wouldn't the cashflow go from her to him instead? Excerpt:

'In some ways, the world of sugar dating mirrors the regular world of dating and matchmaking, with lessons in clear boundary-setting and communication. Sugar babies are also hard workers, which is part of the reason Soraya can't see herself dating any time soon.

"Why do I have to put myself through normal dating with emotions that I don't even like, like putting this much energy in and needing to deal with all of these men? I think I should be compensated for it."
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Srushti Upadhyay is a PhD candidate at the University of Buffalo in the US who has interviewed hundreds of sugar babies in order to understand their motivations. She has found that most sugar babies do not date men in their personal lives.

"If they're going to be dating men, they want to be rewarded for it because men hold a lot of power in this patriarchal society everywhere they go. And so to them … putting in this time and energy into relationships with men is something that they don't want to do for free. It's just a lot of work."'