Prostitutes union also says student numbers have doubled since tuition fees increase announcedON THE DAY that unemployment figures climbed to a 17-year high, the National Union of Students (NUS) has claimed that the government’s austerity measures are responsible for a rise in student prostitution, the BBC reports.The NUS national women’s officer Estelle Hart told the Breakfast programme: “In […]
Soaring costs and lack of cash is forcing more students into the sex industry, claims NUS women’s officer Estelle Hart.In a Five Live interview Hart said that “students are taking more dangerous measures” and blamed “an economic climate where there are very few jobs, where student support has been massively cut”. She warned that “it’s […]
Greater numbers of students in England are turning to prostitution to fund their education, the National Union of Students (NUS) claims.The NUS also says students are turning to gambling and taking part in medical experiments to fund their studies.It says increased living costs and fees, and cuts to the education maintenance allowance, play a part.But […]
The rise in tuition fees, soaring living costs and government cuts to maintenance grants are all reportedly forcing more and more young women to turn to prostitution and other forms of sex work. So says the particularly formidable double act of the National Union of Students and the English Collective of Prostitutes. So I guess […]
Desperate British students, faced with rising costs on the back of government austerity measures, are turning to prostitution, gambling and other dangerous pursuits to fund their studies, support workers and student leaders said on Wednesday.The English Collective of Prostitutes, a welfare body for sex workers, said it estimated the number of people approaching it for […]
Greater numbers of students in England are turning to prostitution to fund their education, the National Union of Students (NUS) claims. The NUS also says students are turning to gambling and taking part in medical experiments to fund their studies. It says increased living costs and fees, and cuts to the education maintenance allowance, play […]
THERE are few clues as to what happens inside Stiletto, billed euphemistically as “the world’s finest short-stay boutique hotel”. It looks like any upmarket retreat but is the latest, most stylish flagship for the legalised sex industry in Sydney, Australia.Inside this high-class brothel, which cost more than £7million to create, there are Dali-inspired red lips […]
The Met should turn a blind eye to prostitutes working in brothels, according to a Conservative member of the London Assembly.Andrew Boff claimed today that police were being too “severe” in shutting small-scale brothels ahead of the Olympics, forcing women on to the street and putting them in danger.Mr Boff also called for brothels to […]
A law intended to criminalise men who use prostitutes has led to just 43 convictions in England and Wales in its first year of operation. Figures released to the BBC show that in some regions not one man was convicted for having sex with a woman who had been forced into prostitution. Police say the […]
Scotland Yard has been accused of endangering sex workers after it emerged that officers were targeting brothels in London’s Olympic boroughs as part of a coordinated clean-up operation ahead of the 2012 games.The Yard’s human exploitation and organised crime command (SCD9) was launched in April last year, bringing together expertise in the fields of clubs and […]