The Rise of the Sugar Mommy Economy

What a shift in the dating preferences of younger men reveals about our changing norms.

By Nadja SpiegelmanEmily Leibert and Jamieson Webster

Produced by Vishakha Darbha

Younger men are increasingly seeking out older women — and it’s not just a dating trend. It’s a shift in power, desire and modern masculinity.

In this episode of “The Opinions,” the Opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman talks with the writer and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster and Emily Leibert, a staff writer at The Cut, about why age-gap relationships are so popular and whether they signal liberation, backlash or something more complicated.

The Rise of the Sugar Mommy Economy

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