Prostitution is increasing because of austerity. A 60% increase in street prostitution recorded in Doncaster is primarily attributed to destitution caused by benefit sanctions,.with charities saying: “Women are being forced to sell sex for £5 because of benefit sanctions.” Sheffield reports a 166% increase (2014) while charity workers in Hull report: “ . . . women who are literally starving and they are out there to feed themselves.”
Extremely worrying new information has come to light in the on-going tuition fees furore, as National Union of Students women’s officer Estelle Hart revealed that students are turning to prostitution and lap dancing to make ends meet. Speaking on the Breakfast programme of BBC Radio 5 Live, Hart blamed the turn to “dangerous, unregulated work” […]
STRUGGLING students are turning to the seedier side of life to pay their steep education bills.The National Union of Students say increased living costs and tuition fees are even forcing some youngsters to take up escort work and prostitution.And from 2012 when universities in England will be allowed to charge up to £9,000 per year […]
CASH-strapped students are turning to the sex industry to get through university, it has been claimed.As tuition fees spiral, uninhibited undergrads are turning to kinky measures to foot the bills, with folk at the National Union of Students and the English Collective of Prostitutes noting the growing trend.YourView users were quick to voice their opinions […]
Growing numbers of university and A-level students are turning to prostitution or working as escorts to fund their education, the National Union of Students said yesterday.Rising living costs and fees, as well as cuts to the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for disadvantaged young people is the cause, says the NUS.The union estimated that 20 per […]
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 […]