The debate of escorts or not comes up quite often including from women themselves who have been watching Band of Gold too much. Similarly escorts have an opinion of sugar babies because of the complexity of it compared to escorting and the higher chance of unprotected sex.
Whatever you call them is up to you, but as long as it's respectful to other men. I've seen too many sugar daddies on here take on an air of superiority over other punters, when the important thing to remember is that none of these women will see you unless you're paying them directly or via a restaurant.
And in that way, we're all the fucking same and so are they.
I personally hate the terms Sugar Baby and Sugar Daddy. I think they are equally disrespectful to either party, especially to women. I think that Sugar Baby is far more belittling to a woman that Sugar Daddy is to a man. It implies some sort of "dependence" on the man in the arrangement. I can state quite conclusively that most of the women I've met off there, and who are approaching it from the right point of view, are far from dependent on anyone. They are doing it to make their lives easier via mental and financial support from an older guy who has his shit together to make their life easier, not because they can't handle their own lives.
Yes, you are correct that they wouldn't be seeing you but for some level of "consideration" in the relationship but, a point I think I made pages and pages ago, is that that's exactly the score with any personal or intimate relationship. It's just that these types of relationship start off with the question of "
....how are we going to mutually support each other.... being addressed up front. Dress it up any way you like but absolutely every single marriage, boyfriend/girlfriend, boyfriend/boyfriend or whatever type of relationship you care to think up, is based on two people getting together to mutually support each other whether that be financial, emotional or physical. No woman will move in with you or marry you if you do not contribute your fair share to the relationship. If you moved in with your girlfriend and decided to refuse to pay any of the rent, mortgage, food bills, gas, etc, she would not hang around long just as the sugar baby wouldn't continue the arrangement if you decided to stop her allowance. Humans get together as couples for the sole purpose of making their lives more comfortable - for mutually beneficial purposes.
People in "normal" relationships, like those I gave examples of, will deride people who meet women on sites like SA (and the women on such sites) as being "weird", "exploiters", "perverts" or whatever other bullshit names they can think of when, if they actually thought about it though, they'd see that their relationship was essentially no different when you distil it to its essential ingredients. So, yeah, you're right - we're all the fucking same.