compensated dating; sugar daddy dating
Slang term for a relationship where a younger person, typically a woman, receives money or gifts from an older man in exchange for companionship or dates. Often implies a transactional, non-committed arrangement.
Lately, it seems more young women are earning living expenses through sugar daddy dating.
彼女はパパ活で知り合った男性と高級レストランに行った。
She went to a fancy restaurant with a man she met through compensated dating.
A blend of パパ (papa, here meaning 'sugar daddy') and 活 (katsu, short for 活動 'activity'), modeled after other 〇〇活 compounds like 就活 (job hunting).