sugar glider

someone who provides emotional support in exchange for material support in a relationship, synonymous with sugar baby or bbg; counterpart to a sugar daddy. sex is often part of the exchange, but let’s be real, if being a glider was just about getting someone off that would be so easy that everyone would be doing it. people who work several marks, or are just openly polyamorous, tend to call themselves gliders instead of babies, probably because of the freedom that “glider” implies. term is usually only spoken between providers, not with the johns, who would rather use custom pet names instead of transactional titles. glider is significantly gender-neutral and age-neutral, making it more a versatile term, ie. with tech workers, where the person providing emotional labor is probably older than the person with the dough. derived from the f***ing adorable marsupials that steal your heart while crushing your soul with their big black eyes.