Students are turning to sex work for extra money but experts warn universities are ignoring the issue Exclusive: ‘The financial situation for students is getting more and more bleak Eleanor Busby Education Correspondent Universities 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 […]
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-Othman A 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 […]
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 […]
The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) is approached daily by students, researchers, playwrights, photographers, trainee journalists, etc. for help with their projects and to learn more about sex work and the ECP. We are glad to help and over the years have had input into many a PhD, project, academic presentation and theatre piece. We […]
In February the Women’s Campaign and the LGBT+ campaign worked with the Sex Workers Open Universityand 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 fight […]
February 27, 2016 We’ve been working with the National Union of Students (NUS) Women and LGBT+ Campaigns, who have distributed our Rights Sheet to new students as part of their welfare pack and passed motions in support of decriminalisation. They have now done a student survey here which we encourage you to fill in and/ […]
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 […]
By Andrew Moran A 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
