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Getting a “blesser” is an opportunity to gain access to a new social level. Ernesto r. Ageitos/Getty Images

November 5, 2025

Sex for money: South African study reveals the harm that ‘blessers’ can do to young women

Gavin George, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Far from being simply glamorous or transactional, relationships with a “blesser” expose young women to risks.

Actor Pedro Pascal at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3, 2022. Pascal was recently crowned the internet’s daddy. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

October 3, 2023

What does it mean to be a ‘daddy’?

Tony Silva, University of British Columbia

Contrary to stereotypes, relationships between older and younger men were not all about money or sex, but rather mentorship and support.

Sugar baby websites exemplify a wider trend of casualisation in working relationships. Shutterstock

January 14, 2019

Sugar daddy capitalism: even the world’s oldest profession is being uberised

Peter Fleming, University of Technology Sydney

Sugar daddy capitalism is deformalising relationships and erasing the lines between commercial and non-commercial worlds.

South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa unwittingly fell for an old trick used to discredit politicians. GCIS

September 12, 2017

Bestiality and BS: Lessons from South Africa’s sleazy political climate

David Everatt, University of the Witwatersrand

Instead of ignoring his accusers, South Africa’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa entertained them, tried to silence them through court, and then revealed a long-past affair of little interest.

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