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 past year, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Debt is increasingly limiting students’ options post-graduation, especially as the recession dries up funding for expensive law, medical and graduate degrees and youth unemployment reaches staggering levels around the world. And it seems to be driving some students to desperate measures. British medical student Jodi Dixon, who is studying at the University of Birmingham, says that the rising costs […]
Aashima Dogra To pay soaring fees and living costs, rising number of students in UK are taking up part-time work in the sex-industry. Pole and lap dancing being the most popular choice, followed by stripping and prostitution.University students knowing at least one peer involved in the adult industry has gone up from 4 per cent […]
Medical students are putting their careers at risk by turning to prostitution to fund their studies, it has been claimed.One in ten students now claim to know someone who is using prostitution to pay university fees – more than twice as many as ten years ago, according to a medical student writing in the Student […]
Students are turning to prostitution to pay for soaring university fees, it is claimed today.Jodi Dixon, a final-year medical student writing in the Student BMJ, said a survey had revealed one student in 10 claimed to know someone using prostitution to pay for their education.A decade ago, only four per cent of students said they […]
SKINT medical students are turning to prostitution to help pay their tuition fees, a Birmingham student has claimed.University of Birmingham student Jodi Dixon said a survey revealed that one in 10 trainee medics has a friend who sells sex to cope with higher living costs and rising tuition fees.This is compared to just four per […]