Students

27th December 2018

Independent: Students are turning to sex work for extra money

Students are turning to sex work for extra money but experts warn universities are ignoring the issueExclusive: ‘The financial situation for students is getting more and more bleakEleanor Busby Education CorrespondentUniversities must stop ignoring the plight of a growing number of students turning to sex work and should start offering non-judgemental support, campaigners demand.Students and experts have accused institutions of “simply […]

22nd July 2018

Buzzfeed: The Rise and Rise of the UK’s Student Sugar Babies

With increasing costs of living at university, increasing numbers of students are turning to sex work or “sugar daddies” to fund their studies.Hannah Al-OthmanA growing number of students are turning to sex work to fund their studies as they struggle to cope with increasing debt and living costs, a new student finance survey has revealed.BuzzFeed […]

3rd March 2018

NUS: Student Sex Worker Briefing

To mark International Sex Worker Rights Day on 3rd March NUS LGBT+ Campaign has joined forces with sex worker-led organisations to create a briefing for students’ unions on how they can better support student sex workers.Read our briefing on how students’ unions can better support student sex workers.In 2016 NUS LGBT+ and Women’s Campaigns undertook a […]

28th March 2017

Student workshops

27th June 2016

NUS: 5 Things we learned from the Student Sex Work Survey

In February the Women’s Campaign and the LGBT+ campaign worked with the Sex Workers Open University and the English Collective of Prostitutes to launch a survey to gather information on the lives and experiences of students’ sex workers. Today we are launching the results of the report with recommendations to help better support students working in the sex industry to […]

28th March 2015

Statement: Findings of student sex work survey

Findings from the Student Sex Work Project at Swansea University confirms the experience of the English Collective of Prostitutes that most students go into sex work to cover living expenses (two-thirds) and pay off debts (45%). One sex worker in the survey described sex work as an alternative to ten-hour shifts waiting tables on top […]

5th December 2012

EC News: Economic collapse turning indebted college students into strippers

By Andrew MoranA growing number of graduates and postgraduate students in the United Kingdom are entering the sex trade industry by taking such jobs as pole-dancing, stripping, lap-dancing, escorting and prostitution. Many are entering this field in order to finance their post-secondary education and keep up with both the costs of living and tuition.New research […]

3rd December 2012

Independent: Students and the sex industry – Empowering or the last resort of the debt-ridden?

CHARLOTTE PHILBY With unemployment levels soaring across Britain, job prospects for graduates have never looked so bleak. But one sector proving resilient, and lucrative, for young people struggling to meet the inflated costs of higher education is the sex industry.The number of students using their bodies to pay their fees has doubled in the past year, […]

30th November 2012

Channel 4 News: Economic woes push more women into sex work

Students and single mothers are increasingly turning to prostitution as government cuts impact on women who are struggling to make ends meet.A new study from Kingston University claims roughly 6 per cent of students, from a sample taken across the UK, are currently working in the sex industry, which includes erotic dancing, stripping and escort services.Sarah […]

11th July 2012

Express: Graduates in sleaze

WHEN students are struggling to make ends meet they traditionally pull pints in a pub to earn some extra pocket money. Donna Asutaits’s choice of part-time job was much less conventional but far more lucrative.She turned to prostitution while studying for her degree, working as a high-class call girl and earning up to £1,000 a […]