18-year-old Kaeden Harveland is a Seattle-based professional Sugar Baby and blossoming social media maven, with over 50,000 YouTube subscribers and nearly 20,000 Instagram followers.
“I have been doing this for two years now,” Kaeden tells HuffPost in a new interview.
Yes, you read that correctly, folks. He’s 18 and he’s been “sugaring” for two years, which means he got started around the same time he got his driver’s license.
“They pay me to just be with them,” Kaeden says. “The look is important. They feel more important when they spend time with a ‘beautiful’ person.”
Kaeden estimates he’s had between 30 and 50 sugar daddies over the past two years. Some are older. Some are younger. Some are married. Some are single.
“Some sugar baby relationships can last a few months or years. Others are only an appointment,” he explains. “Most men come from abroad or travel a lot. When they come to my city, we’ll see each other once or twice.”
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Date activities range from dinner and drinks, to long romantic walks, to chats on Skype.
Kaeden says he makes anywhere from $2000 to $5000 a month just hanging out with older gents, who then shower him with gifts and affection.
“I have already received everything possible,” he says, “from a $ 15,000 watch to clothing or Apple products.”
He recently expanding his customer base to include sugar mamas, as well.
“That was definitely something new,” he says. “In the end we, had a good time and she became not only my Sugar Mommy but also a good friend.”
As for his friends and family, Kaeden says they are very supportive of his chosen profession.
“I am supported from all sides,” Kaeden says. “Some friends were even so inspired by me that they also try sugaring. I keep getting messages because they want tips from me.”
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ChrisK
“They feel more important when they spend time with a ‘beautiful’ person.”Lol. Yes as shallow is that sounds I’m sure it’s the truth with allot of his older clients.
At 18 he still looks like a kid. I’ll bet at 16 he probably looked like a 10 year old. So basically he’s a attracting the nasty pedos. Good for him though.
ChrisK
Yeah after watching that video the only thing I’d pay him for is to leave. His Uber ride anyways.
LABrad
I’ve seen this guy’s videos before. Everything he does is obviously staged. He vlogs himself actually going on calls, he films inside the clients house, and actually films the guys putting the money in his hand. He pretends he doesn’t know the word escort or hooker … because he thinks it’s funny to say sugar daddy and sugar baby.
It is mildly funny … however, the comment section is all little kids who think this is real. They are jealous of him because his life is so exciting, and they’re just “wasting their time” going to school.
redcarpet30
Uhm this is called prostitution. Not that there’s anything wrong with sex work just be honest about it.
Dubr1988
Agreed.
frankcar1965
That’s what I have been saying, it’s actually needed I think for some but it’s just prostitution so call it what it is.
nm4047
That’s what it used to be called. Apparently it’s Sugar Baby now. Go figure
Dymension
Um, single appointments? Don’t they call that prostitution?
Bradsman
Nothing new here. Hope he saves his money, beauty has an expiration date!
ChrisK
At 18 he’s got a long time before his expiration date though.
unreligious
@ChrisK not if they are looking for the prepubescent Twink look.
ChrisK
True dat.
frankcar1965
I find him kind of odd looking, I can’t go with it. I guess if you are a needy person you’ll take anything.
BCbreeze
@ChrisK
You will not be able to say the same about his blown out hole, and when those lips deflate. Sorry, I’m keeping it real.
Brian
If he’s into the PnP that’s so popular among this crowd, that expiration date will be sneaking up a lot sooner than he expects. A little meth goes a long way toward aging a pretty face.
rand503
And if I suspect correctly, all that partying will catch up with you very quickly. I’ve seen guys like this age so much that by the time they are in their mid-20s, they look haggard and old.
NateOcean
I understand the sugar daddy and sugar baby thing, but don’t the have a version where a hot young man wants to spoil an older gent with gifts and attention?
They should make those.
TheBigOne
You called?
You’d have to be over 70 years old for me to even remotely show interest though lol.
jlicks
I always thought a sugar baby was someone a hot young man wants to spoil an older gent with gifts and attention!
PollyDarton
Why does he talk like that?
da90027
Instagram is mostly attention whores posting daily selfies half naked in front of a mirror. Pretty sad state of affairs when this makes a news story.
I bet his parents were non-existent or brain dead if they support this chosen line of work.
TheBigOne
Sorry, but a ho is a ho, regardless of what is in-between your legs.
ChrisK
..and for some of us I say thank god for those hoes. Not into this one but I have rented some hotties before and so what?
I admit. I’m not some church lady.
Kangol
So he’s a pretty young sex worker. OK. So long as it’s consensual, no one is getting hurt or harmed, and he’s cool with it, I see no problem with it.
Kangol
That is, based on the fact that he’s 18 years old. That’s key.
CastleSF
By all the comments you have posted, I know you are a brilliant guy, So why do you set such a dismally low bar for other people? What this kid does is of course legal but by saying that it is OK just because it is legal, how is it going to help this individual in any meaningful way? Doesn’t he deserve to be told that he can do better than this?
Cylest Brooks
I deleted most of the comments in this thread. Remember, derogatory language used toward other commenters is against the comment policy.
There is a very valuable conversation here that is being lost in childishness and immaturity. Please keep all comments related to the subject matter.
Thanks!
Cylest Brooks
CastleSF, I challenge the idea that sex work is a ‘low bar’. I can’t speak for Kangol, but I would agree with the idea that there is nothing wrong with what this kid is doing.
You ask “how is it going to help this individual in any meaningful way”, and that is a question borne of ignorance. Sex work can be an incredibly validating, rewarding, and life-affirming career.
You opinion that this person “can do better than this” is more a reflection on YOU and how you value people than it is on HIM and his career.
luvit00
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Paco
No thanks. I rather use my hand and buy myself nice things.
BCbreeze
LOL, I have way tooooo much self respect, and that face scares me just a little.
rand503
No thanks, here too. The kid can do what he wants, and more power to him. , even though I think this is very short sighted and won’t long.
I have little respect for any guy who gives him gifts and thinks that he would ever care a bit for them.
unreligious
Funny I wondered the same thing.
salumbre
Um. Good for him, I guess.
I enjoy ogling youth and beauty as much as the next person, but I must say that living in South Beach for (too) many years served as a desensitizer of sorts. I am also getting more than a little tired of self-absorbed people desperately staging and exposing every single second of their lives everywhere we look.
An 18-year-old bragging about being a high-end male courtesan? A little too much for me. To each their own, I guess. He’s not harming anyone, after all. (Except probably himself, but that’s another story.)
Daniel-Reader
So that means YouTube and Instagram have to yank his accounts right? To avoid the new Fighting Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) which overrides the Fair Harbor law and makes facilitating prostitution online illegal for any USA site? How’s he going to get around that?
miguel
interesting. I hope his little fans know he’s definitely offering up some sex (if I am to believe he really is making this kind of money).
The sugar mama thing looks staged. He’s not my cup of tea. I wouldn’t hire him. Way too over the top and flaringly obnoxious. If his vlogging is making him some money and making him somewhat of a quasi youtube celebrity to his followers good for him, but call a spade a spade. If older men with money to spend just wanted to lavish money on a cute guy with no sex. Wait I won’t even finish that lol. An escort by any other name is still an escort.
Dubr1988
DEYA VU VERSSACCE.
startenout
I just don’t get it.
CanadianGuy62
I thought he was cute…I do like young, slim, smooth guys with dark hair; however, as soon as he opened his mouth, any interest that I had was gone.
I don’t know which was more annoying, the rapid fire spewing of vacuous BS, or the way-too-high voice.
Either way, I certainly wouldn’t pay for one minute of his time…wouldn’t even do him for free (OK, maybe if he were muzzled).
jayshay
Where I come from any one over 17 having sex with any one under 17, is statutory rape, consensual or not. I wonder if he practices safe sex 100% of the time. I wish him a happy and safe life. But!
Paco
If he was paid for sex before he turned 18, it is considered child sex trafficking.
BCbreeze
Of course Querrty would give that prostitute a platform to dazzle his followers and glamorizing underage escorting. And if we post anything saying how bad this is for our younger readers to see this the big bad wolf will come and delete our comment. Good on you Queerity, lets give these enablers a round of applause!!! Maybe they will follow this up with a post of a straight guys bulge. I guess this is what happens when people graduate with a women’s degree and hit the real world, just to find out… No one is hiring you, but thank god for Buzzfeed and Querrty. At the least it pays for your rainbow hair dye.
Armiya
BC that’s a cheap shot at Cylest, no need to be personal about her education and the fact she plays with bright hair color (of which I approve and love). She’s probably got a few gigs going on and good for her. May not agree with how she does her job, but hey it’s her JOB.
The kid is 18 and is pretty stupid to be admitting what he has. He’s not the brightest. But no need to attack Cylest for the idiocy that the writers here decide to cover under the guise of articles of worth, that isn’t what she’s paid to do.
ChrisK
Why are all you do called mature adults here attacking this kid? He’s a kid. He says and does stupid things. That’s just what they do at that age.
BCbreeze
Everything you do has a consequence, best for him to get learning. And I am going to call B.S. If you put it all out for the world to judge, prepare to be judged. The kid needs a swift kick in the ass of reality.
ChrisK
Sometimes I’m just embarrassed by this community. Attacking kids and old ladies. Such brave “men” here.
BCbreeze
@Armiya, this is to your response to my comment. I stand behind everything and then some, I had a lot more to say, so I believe I was not as harsh as I even wanted to be. Some more of us need to speak up and stop being afraid.
“Umbrella stereotypes are discouraged (meaning don’t lump all people into one negative stereotype like “liberals”, “SJWs”, trans people, gay men, etc)”.
Just look at the above, It leaves out anything to do with anyone Right Wing. And we are called every name in the book. I could right now list so many comments that people are, in her own words… Name-calling, bigotry or ignorance, throwing profanity at other readers, or calling them idiots. Our valid facts are being silenced here everyday because she picks only the one she sees fit, and I think something is wrong with that. An open forum should never be a safe space. Again in her words… We encourage people to comment on articles and engage in conversations. When all you do is take that freedom away. And if calling someone the Big Bad Wolf is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.
Here is another one… For instance, we won’t allow anti-woman rhetoric (calling a pregnant woman a ‘whore’, for instance). That’s not because we’re partisan about women’s issues… it’s because we believe in basic dignity for women. If you are racist, you will get banned… not because we’re “a part of the liberal machine”… but because it’s wrong to be racist.
So lets break this down a little.
What if the women is really a pregnant whore by a valid definition of the words. Is she not indeed a pregnant whore? And I a racist because I am Pro-Trump and believe BLM is bias toward white people? As you can see I have said no bad words, I have not started and shit at all. And yet here I am thinking all of this will be gone because I may have said things she didn’t like, and all I did was question things. I am sorry if you feel it was an attack, it wasn’t. It was a call out… Big difference, you and maybe even she should know the difference.
BCbreeze
“I get rich men to pay for everything, and I have done it for over 2 years”.
What were the parents doing for over 2 years, I feel sorry for this child. The real world will knock him on his ass before you know it. I just hope the kid plays safe because I don’t want my taxes to pay for another teenagers fuck ups.
BCbreeze
The road this boy is on, your taxes will be paying him a lot more in the upcoming future.
BCbreeze
You misspelled Pretty. lol
surfpenis
So he’s letting older, financially able men buy his time. Big deal. A bud of mine figured out pretty quickly when he was in high school there was a market for men who wanted to suck his dick for $$$. Let me just put it this way … between the age of 16 and 24 he “earned” enough money to pay his way through college and a year of graduate school, and when he got done he had ZERO student loans to repay. That was 12 years ago. I wish I had thought of that back in the day (still owing $27,000 of student loans at age 35.) Let him do what he wants, and quit judging. I detect a lot of sour old Aunt Nells on here who are jealous of what he is doing!
ChrisK
I can understand making fun of him a bit. He’s intentionally or unintentionally funny. Thanks La Brad for pointing that out. I just don’t understand the vitriol some here have against him. First. There’s nothing wrong with prostitution. I’ve partaken in it and my best friend hires all the time. I suggest some of you try it. Might loosen some of you up.
Not to mention I think were the last community that needs to be judging people for their sexual activities. Enough of this whoring talk. It says way more about you then it does about them.
prarie pup
I don’t think any poster here is a “jealous Aunt Nell.” I think I speak for the group when I say we’re more confused than jealous. If I were going to pay somebody for their company it CERTAINLY wouldn’t be this shallow, empty-headed queen. It would be like hanging out with my 14 year old niece.
Felix Pocket
ChrisK, how do you go about finding/choosing and vetting guys? Seems dicey with a high chance of disappointment.
BCbreeze
Jealous, sorry but no. I have no price for my self respect.
Armiya
BC you’re entitled to your opinions, I’m not going to discuss the BLM movement because I support it and I’m as extremely left wing as they come. I’m also a gay man who is a feminist and someone who also doesn’t believe that there should be rules to discourse and yes, even satire. The commentary you left for Cylest *was* a cheap shot. Her women’s studies and hair have nothing to do with her job as a monitor. I’m all for snark believe me, but it was a cheap shot, Go ahead and speak your truth or whatever it is you feel you need to do. There are plenty of gay people who aren’t liberal and they shouldn’t have to be. But there are also gay people who will follow, like sheep into a land of happy vapid gayworld, where many of these “articles” feed the scope of keeping gay people vapid and shallow. But also do not paint all of us liberals with the same brush. Peace.
Nero35
Uncle Sam doesn’t care what you do, as long as you pay taxes on what you do — including prostitution.
Armiya
@ BCbreeze Calling “the big bad wolf” out if you disagree…cool. But posting within the call outs, stuff having NOTHING to do with her erasing commentary (and trust me I’ve voiced it too, she is selective and yes I think it’s utter crap) such as her education and colored hair, is completely pointless and antagonistic because it has no bearing on comment deletion, it’s just being used as a jab. It’s as stupid as me being told that because I have blue hair (which I have right now) that means I’m unable to hold a job (I can and do, in business for myself and make a killing as well as an actual corporate job) that I’m antifa, unamerican and probably won’t salute the flag or stand for the anthem (I actually don’t for reasons of how I was raised in a religion, I don’t salute symbols, people, fight in wars, carry a gun, etc) or whatever. It’s condesdcending and it’s not true. Ya can’t look at someone and immediately know their heart.
Josh447
I tend to agree. And I think the guy is lying. I don’t see anyone paying for a run off at the mouth super queen. I’d say buy a chiwawa and put a tiera on it. Much cheaper and basically the same thing.
krandall
THANK YOU! It’s 7:00 a.m. and you just gave me a big belly laugh to start my day. Thanks so much.
krandall
Gosh, the line is busy. Should have read this sooner.
canuckdave
I’m so surprised how many people responded to this fluff. Volunteer, support a charity do a random act of kindness with your valuable time as I waste 8 seconds of my time writing this.
jd.cali
Obviously you are just as interested. So what’s your point?
Cylest Brooks
jd.cali,
I deleted your second comment, and I will continue to delete comments that make derogatory comments about the writers, especially those that directly call staff by name to criticize them.
With that said, I am absolutely willing to entertain and allow for criticism about the content of articles posted here, so long as that criticism stays within the guidelines of our Comment Policy. Please know that personal attacks, if not specifically outlined there, fall under the umbrella of being “mean-spirited”.
Vince
I hire guys all the time and I’m not reduced in any such way.
prarie pup
Agreed. That’s exactly what happened to Andrew Cunan.
Brian
He’s probably lying about his age anyway. Barely legal is definitely a good marketing angle, I’m sure he’ll milk that for as long as possible.
Cylest Brooks
Hi! Friendly Queerty comment moderator here.
I removed a LOT of comments from this thread. A lot. If your comment was one of the ones removed, please take a moment to review our Comment Policy, which can be found here: https://www.queerty.com/queertys-comment-policy
As an added note, sex work is work and any derogatory comments about SW or sex workers will be deleted.
valentino888
Are we totally sure any of this is real? Perhaps I have more dignified older male friends but I can’t imagine anyone over 20 being able to sit and listen to that brainless chatter over dinner. While I’m open minded (punk and goth background) most older men -especially those with money – are not going to have a guy with painted nails at his dinner table (in public). If there is no hardcore boy-pounding, there is no WAY this guy would get a dime out of anyone…of any age. He probably has rich parents and films this all for fun at various locations.
gaym50ish
Kaeden, I’ve got news for you — it’s not the long, romantic walks they’re paying you for!
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