UK: Prostitution is just like a bar job for students, say academics who claim one in 20 sell their bodies to pay for tuition fees

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SOURCE: THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3632400/Escort-work-like-job-bar-students-say-academics.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

by  COLIN FERNANDEZ

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• As many as 1 in 20 students sell their bodies to pay for fees, study shows
• And one in five students are considering working in the sex industry
• Such work is no different to a job in a bar, a researcher said yesterday

Working as a stripper or prostitute at university is no different to working in a bar, academics researching student sex work have claimed.

Speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival, researchers Tracey Sagar and Debbie Jones claimed as many as one in 20 students sell their bodies to pay for tuition fees and living costs.

They also said their study – which is the largest of its kind – has revealed that one in five students are considering working in the sex industry. Yesterday Professor Sagar, of the criminology department at Swansea University, insisted: 'If somebody is doing sexual work and it's not harming them physically, it should not be an issue.

'What's the difference between doing [sexually explicit acts] on a webcam and working in a bar?' But her comments horrified campaigners, who called the remarks 'incredibly irresponsible and stupid'. The Student Sex Work project was a three-year study that carried out a survey of 6,773 university students, using nearly half a million pounds of National Lottery funding.

It found sex work is just as common among male undergraduates as it is among female students. Many male students are in demand from hen parties to strip – through websites offering services such as 'butlers in the buff', the study said.

The academics claimed sex work was 'not inherently harmful' to students who 'should not be stigmatised' or disciplined for offering escort services on campus.

[mirraflake]

While in HS I worked in a gas station late 70's which had repair bays..remember those?

The mechanic was late 20's very good looking guy. Women would offer him sex all the time to take money off their bill or get it done for free. Some times he did sometimes he didn't.

These were regular, girl next door  types, not bar tramps that would would think.

Time period when I first started to really figure out women and sex.

[skeeter]

This has been going on in Asia for quite awhile now. In Japan, coeds would post their pictures in phone booths like baseball cards looking for a "sponsor".