5 Nigerian Women Share the Hidden Costs of Dating Sugar Daddies

Five Nigerian women share painful experiences from relationships with older, wealthier men. One says an affair with a married man cost her family support and her chance to attend nursing school. Another says a man refused to leave her home after she rejected his sexual advances, leaving her frightened and humiliated. One woman says she was injured while escaping from a violent confrontation connected to her partner’s business disputes. Another says she contracted a treatable sexually transmitted bacterial infection after dating a man whose hygiene concerned her. A fifth woman says her partner gradually turned her into an unpaid cleaner and cook, then claimed she owed him domestic labour because he spent money on her. Their accounts highlight coercion, unsafe situations and the emotional cost that can come with transactional relationships.

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