Sugarbabe: Based on the Controversial Real Story of a Woman in Search of a Sugar Daddy

By Holly Hill

After quitting her job for her boyfriend only to get dumped, a psychologist embarks on an unorthodox search for love in this memoir.

“Attractive, professional, well-spoken, well-dressed thirty-five-year-old woman seeks sugar daddy. I live in Darlinghurst on a seventeenth floor unit with fantastic skyline views to the harbor. The unit also features very discreet and secure undercover guest parking. I am looking for exclusivity so will (theoretically) be available to you 24 x 7. I am single and don't have any children. I am also a fabulous cook and can provide gourmet meals should you require them. I am a qualified psychologist so I make an excellent listener, and I have a great love of conversation. I have also worked for many years in public relations so am a clever, charming companion in just about any situation. I love sex. I will require a generous weekly allowance in return for all of the above.”

Holly Hill (a pseudonym) gave up her job at the behest of her wealthy boyfriend—and then found herself dumped and penniless. After spending six weeks in bed pining for her lost love, she was encouraged by a friend to be “open-minded” about her career choices—and ended up placing an online ad for a sugar daddy. She received an almost overwhelming response from all sorts of men, but most of them were married men whose wives had lost interest in sex.

As Holly interviewed the men and settled on a candidate, she decided to record what happened next. Those almost-daily observations became a journal documenting Holly’s extraordinary experiences—not just the men she meets, but the things she finds out about marriages, in particular, and what men need from them.

Sugarbabe is her real-life account of the emails, meetings, employment of and interactions with the applicants for the role, and the five men she eventually chooses (not all at the same time!). It is by turns funny, enlightening, challenging, and thought-provoking.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jul 10, 2010
• ISBN: 9781628730111

Holly Hill

Holly Hill is the author of the bestselling SUGARBABE. She worked as a journalist before moving into public relations and corporate communications.

Reviews for Sugarbabe

[johnny1978_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The sexual memoir is a genre that practically deserves its own shelving in your local library. It provides a vicarious thrill: puporting to give a real-life account of exotic sexual encounters most of us may fantasize about but rarely get to experience. Supreme in this genre is Belle du Jour whose erotic (and conveniently unverifiable) experiences are subject of a series of non-fiction titles.Sugarbabe by Holly Hill is more pants-dropping disguised as biography.Hill, an affluent middle-class Sydney-sider, is dumped by her wealthy lover and finding herself jobless and single, places an add on the internet advertising for a sugar daddy.She becomes a kept woman, in the traditional parlance; a maitresse en titre, in the language of love; a bird of paradise, in regency cant.In plain terms, a hooker with her own flat and a decent wine-list.Hill is a fine raconteur: she gives a vivid description of the men who pay her and provides an interesting insight into the psychology of a certain type of cashed-up male. This is one of the book's greatest strengths: Hill is a qualified psychologist and her pillow talk reads like psycho-analysis. She poses interesting questions about male/female relations and although she neccesarily lacks academic distance, her conclusions are articulate, if not terribly original.This makes her own complete lack of self perception extraordinary.One of Hill's stated reasons for setting out on her sexual adventure is to pay her bills: why then, we must ask ourselves, does she end up almost broke?She is used, cheated and exploited by a variety of sexually dysfunctional middle-aged men and yet claims a stake in female empowerment without a hint of irony. Her paramours pay her extravagant compliments but not her bills. She inevitably ends up the loser in her sexual transactions both emotionally and financially, yet concludes the memoir with the same self congratulatory air of someone who's just climbed Everest. One of her lovers has such little respect for her (and his wife) that he penetrates her without a condom - despite her clear objections. Hill has a sensitive radar for the problems of others, yet appears blind to her own lack of self worth. Her spin is new feminist sexual power but her content is blow by blow, female degradation.Presented with these facts, the reader must question her motives. What are her real reasons for becoming a 'Sugarbabe'? This is one shrink who seems incapable of even elementary self-analysis.Hill also appears blind to the fact that she occupies a priveleged position: how many hookers can claim they chose their path? Extract the results of drug addiction and abuse and I suspect the number is low. It's yet another relevant question, Hill appears incapable of addressing.

[jodye-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I liked it at first but then found the tone changed to be too preachy and then ending of the book kinda lame. Could have been much better.

[ryitgrrl · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

An insightful look at the world of sex and companionship for money and the nature of rlationships in a social climate where everything is out sourced including our most intimate life details.I found it tragic and uplifting at the same time. The fact that the sugar babe in question happens to be a psychologist only adds to the depth of this book.Well worth a read.