7% of students turned to sex work during covid

[Helloyou75001]

I say bullshit
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Where are they? I can't find anything decent.

Only fake brazilians chicks and even less girls than usual in AW

[Steve2]

Most were probably selling pics or videos online

[Home Alone]

Not the part of the 'market' I shop in, anyway. Unless, that is, she's a GFE-offering GILF who studies at the University of the 3rd Age! External Link/Members Only

[wombat42]

Most were probably selling pics or videos online

Such as using Onlyfans. External Link/Members Only

[122jay]

93% of stats are bullshit
If they asked 10 and 1 said they did, that’s 10%.

[Boundless]

93% of stats are bullshit
If they asked 10 and 1 said they did, that’s 10%.

There are lies, damn lies and statistics

[southcoastpunter]

It may depend on what is classified as "sex work". There has been a significant increase in the number of student on SA in the last couple of months - at least in my part of the world.

[bhudda]

It may depend on what is classified as "sex work". There has been a significant increase in the number of student on SA in the last couple of months - at least in my part of the world.

well that is unquestionably sex work

[winkywanky]

7% wouldn't surprise me.

They're not all on AW, they'll be doing OnlyFans and SA too, that kind of thing.

Other outlets are available.

[chadpitt]

Here's the video:

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Notice the number of dislikes 

I guess men don't empathise with women living on recruit difficulty.

[IAMBATMAN]

I guess men don't empathise with women living on recruit difficulty.

a fellow Birdman fan I see

[Animalbeast]

I’ve noticed a few, probably not students, but newbies / inexperienced on vivastreet. Profiles usually only up for a week, always working from hotels, amateurish and paranoid comms.

I think most people doing it first time and who see it as a short term thing won’t join adultwork, the whole verification thing will scare them off .

[Payyourwaymate]

Here's the video:

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Notice the number of dislikes 

I guess men don't empathise with women living on recruit difficulty.

This might be shocking to hear this coming from me as some of my other views have pissed people off, but most women don't live life on recruit difficulty. It's the pretty popular ones that do. Your average woman is living like everybody else with guys every now and then that want to have sex with her or help her out with the goal of having sex with her. Hardly anything worth being happy about, they do have more support networks in the western world than men though so no sympathy from me. Cold world.

Keeping on to the topic though, browsing AW I have not really seen much choice of these "university students turning to sex work", unless they are streetwalking? I doubt that... They must mean the girls are turning to onlyfans and camming which is online sexwork, if only the video specified  .

[Lamnguin]

I assume when they say sex work they mean camming and the like rather than actual physical escorting. It'll be interesting to see how things pan out as they return to uni.

[Gordon Bennett]

Clearly bollocks. Their figures suggest nearly 70,000 female students did turn to sex work during lockdown and 20,000 male students did likewise...... absolutely laughable.

[cotton]

Here's the video:

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Notice the number of dislikes 

I guess men don't empathise with women living on recruit difficulty.

Is recruit difficulty an auto censored UKP correction of another phrase as it means nothing to me , and this and several subsequent posts read like gibberish because of it to me.
So what does recruit difficulty mean.
Started watching the youtube video , personally i found it hard to find any sympathy for the orange haired fat girl crying about whoring because of various circumstances like she needed money.

[winkywanky]

I'd never heard this phrase before.

I guess my age has something to do with that  .

But apparently:

Recruit Difficulty

When someone is on easy mode. Life is easy, everything goes their way, and nothing is there to stop them.

"Man, I'm tired of these females always livin' life on that recruit difficulty".

[winkywanky]

I have to say, this sounds like something a guy might say, frustrated that he can't pick a girl up or interest her in a relationship of some kind. She's hot shit (or thinks she is). She thinks I'm beneath her. She's waiting for a footballer of suitable standing  .

Nothing new under the sun. Move on.

[cotton]

^^ Nice one Winky , yeh id never heard of it before , at face value it dosnt scan in an any meaningful way so unless you are familiar with it it does just read like gibberish .

[Colston36]

I'd never heard this phrase before.

I guess my age has something to do with that  .

But apparently:

Recruit Difficulty

When someone is on easy mode. Life is easy, everything goes their way, and nothing is there to stop them.

"Man, I'm tired of these females always livin' life on that recruit difficulty".

I read that too. It's as near to totally incomprehensible as you can get.

[Payyourwaymate]

I read that too. It's as near to totally incomprehensible as you can get.

Recruit difficulty originates from the Video Game Call of Duty. It's the easiest level of the game, no effort really required and its not really a challenge, everything is in your favour to survive the game. I don't know when the "manosphere" adopted that term. I only recognised that term the other member said as I was familar with the video game call of duty so immediately got the reference, so it's no surprise the older generation does not have a clue what that member meant. As the game has been about over a decade and not several decades.

It's just another way of saying women have it easier than men do.

[king tarzan]

one of the many side effects of this filthy virus

[Home Alone]

Recruit difficulty originates from the Video Game Call of Duty. It's the easiest level of the game, no effort really required and its not really a challenge, everything is in your favour to survive the game. I don't know when the "manosphere" adopted that term. I only recognised that term the other member said as I was familar with the video game call of duty so immediately got the reference, so it's no surprise the older generation does not have a clue what that member meant. As the game has been about over a decade and not several decades.

It's just another way of saying women have it easier than men do.

Thanks for that, Payyourwaymate. As there's at least one generation between us -  I guess - I  certainly wouldn't have had a fecking clue without that brilliantly simple explanation!

It gladdens this old fogey's heart to know that English continues to be an evolving language. Even when I, like others on here, may silently despair that the reference comes from something I don't really approve of, like video games. And that, of course, is mainly because I've never played one!

[Metalgear2018]

100% of their work will be on Onlyfans

[JamesKW]

I assume when they say sex work they mean camming and the like rather than actual physical escorting. It'll be interesting to see how things pan out as they return to uni.

I never understand why people pay for camming when you have pornhub,I would save up my money for the real deal.

[bushman]

I never understand why people pay for camming when you have pornhub,I would save up my money for the real deal.

It's a fairly enjoyable activity when you are somewhere off-grid and want human interaction with someone you find attractive.
Met up with a girl in Brasov I've met via camming. Didn't lead to sex but was a good night out. We kept in touch for a while but she obviously thought I was a cash camel.

[IAMBATMAN]

For anyone misunderstanding what "recruit difficulty" means. It is the lowest difficult in Call of Duty and was popularised by the youtube birdman about 3 years ago to refer to women who may be a little spoiled but also when society doesn't punish them for things. For example when Riley Reed came out and said she once raped a guy and took his virginity. If a guy said that we would be crucified but she was praised this is an example of females living on recruit

[daverfc]

I noticed in the Reading and Basingstoke area an unusual amount of British girls on AW who I had never seen pop up on my searches before.  So I saved them in a new covid newbies list to see how many are still going after it had blown over.

Not checked it yet though. 

[mace-window]

For anyone misunderstanding what "recruit difficulty" means. It is the lowest difficult in Call of Duty and was popularised by the youtube birdman about 3 years ago to refer to women who may be a little spoiled but also when society doesn't punish them for things. For example when Riley Reed came out and said she once raped a guy and took his virginity. If a guy said that we would be crucified but she was praised this is an example of females living on recruit

And now she saying no one of worth wants to marry her. I wonder why  ????????

[billybobsmith]

OnlyFans is a very hard website to navigate in my opinion.  It's not a site where you search for a local girl, but a place where you have to go on say Tinder and see if she's added an OF link in the text.  Or you add her to Snapchat and she sends you a link or some spam "sign up to this site to meet me" address.

I've used it once as it was a girl living a couple of miles from me, and for £5, worth a punt.  Few topless pics of her, and then she came up with a nude / toy package for £20, so didn't bother after that.
There's something about knowing the girl is local to you rather than someone who could be in California as far as I know.  Perhaps something for the "wank bank" knowing what some 20yo girl looks like naked that you could walk past in Tesco....
I'm really turned off by a lot of the fake stuff on porn sites.  Seeing some girl-next-door type doing things is more of a turn on.

Never paid for a cam site.  Have watched a few and some girls do do full shows and regulars do give them loads for doing either nothing or the full monty (have mentioned before seeing one girl earn my year's salary in a few minutes from just changing her socks a few times whilst being dressed!)
One girl I work with mentioned earning cash for feet pictures, and she was sitting behind her desk taking the odd picture in her tights the other day.
 

[MilleMiglia]

I'd never heard this phrase before.

I guess my age has something to do with that  .

But apparently:

Recruit Difficulty

When someone is on easy mode. Life is easy, everything goes their way, and nothing is there to stop them.

"Man, I'm tired of these females always livin' life on that recruit difficulty".

"Tutorial Mode" is another.

[bedhedred]

This girl was a student. I reckon some of the younger British girls at Hod are paying down student debts.
https://www.ukpunting.com/index.php?topic=279048.0

[datwabbit]

Does the figure say they were successful?

I'm guessing that other forms of income weren't available or sufficiently high. How many could have "cut their cloth" and survived as opposed to the money that can be made from pictures and shagging around (if you are happy to shag around with no commitment, why not get paid for it).

[billybobsmith]

Does the figure say they were successful?

I'm guessing that other forms of income weren't available or sufficiently high. How many could have "cut their cloth" and survived as opposed to the money that can be made from pictures and shagging around (if you are happy to shag around with no commitment, why not get paid for it).

Well, a lot of summer jobs wouldn't have been there this year.  Shops, cafes, coffee shops etc. were practically closed, so a lot of girls pre-Uni or whatever, wouldn't have had those 6-10 weeks after college finished (or the semester) to earn cash (although a few would have blown it on a trip to Ibiza etc. anyway!).

As for picture selling, as I mentioned earlier, it's dependent on having a social media base.  You're not going to get men randomly stumbling onto an OF, Snapchat etc. account where sexual stuff is on offer.  They've got to stick links / addresses in their Tinder profiles (either direct or "add me on snapchat", from which they will possibly give you a second private page they just use for sex stuff).  Only so many men are going to be do see this.
They may get a few on SA but to make any real cash, they're going to need to be out there with 1000s of followers to be honest, and that's the hard part.

Sure Chatroulette or Myfreecams yield something, but from what I've seen there, only a few women seem to pull the cash in, others getting practically no-one in their rooms (although can't say if they make cash from privates etc.) - probably doesn't help when most lie there dressed showing zero interest.

Had one girl at work yesterday chatting to another girl about a boy she likes.  She did mention swiping right to anything on Tinder and putting out a bit that had given her a reputation.  She then joked that since she's doing this that much, she should become a prostitute.  Also mentioned booking a hotel room for her and this boy she likes who isn't really making moves on her.
Think I'm going to get to know her a little more

[County Militia]

Even when I, like others on here, may silently despair that the reference comes from something I don't really approve of, like video games. And that, of course, is mainly because I've never played one!

Don't worry your not missing much there considering video games are pretty juvenile and adults who play them constantly are immature. It's so sad to see so many of my fellow millennials wasting their lives away on video games when there are so many opportunities in life to experience and adult orientated hobbies to partake in. Video games are not a healthy hobby for an adult 

[king tarzan]

Don't worry your not missing much there considering video games are pretty juvenile and adults who play them constantly are immature. It's so sad to see so many of my fellow millennials wasting their lives away on video games when there are so many opportunities in life to experience and adult orientated hobbies to partake in. Video games are not a healthy hobby for an adult 

I play video games...nothing wrong with that at all...

[datwabbit]

Don't worry your not missing much there considering video games are pretty juvenile and adults who play them constantly are immature. It's so sad to see so many of my fellow millennials wasting their lives away on video games when there are so many opportunities in life to experience and adult orientated hobbies to partake in. Video games are not a healthy hobby for an adult 

If you think about all the events possible at weekends and evenings, there's plenty to do rather than play video games. Pre pandemic of course.

[billybobsmith]

Don't worry your not missing much there considering video games are pretty juvenile and adults who play them constantly are immature. It's so sad to see so many of my fellow millennials wasting their lives away on video games when there are so many opportunities in life to experience and adult orientated hobbies to partake in. Video games are not a healthy hobby for an adult 

There's a place a for everything.
I like the odd bit of COD etc.  Yes I get my ass kicked by some little scrote camping somewhere, or can make 50 moves by the time I've even pressed a mouse button, but it can be fun and escapism.
Like the odd bit of Diablo type games, Fallout, or builder games, and still play old adventure games.

One problem is that a lot of adult activities aren't available at present.  Less women on AW etc., bars aren't open quite as much, you can't get close to people in a lot of places and so on.
Lots of people are cautious about going out, with some pulling back in horror should you be in the same room as them.
Makes it harder to meet people and socialise (was in Manchester city centre a couple of evenings earlier this week and it was dead to say the least.  Normally it would be pretty busy around the Arndale / Printworks area, but all the food and drink places seemed empty or were closed).
Yes, younger ones might be going out a bit, but if you're not in the 18-23yo age bracket, you stick out like a sore thumb, and a lot of us don't want to have to register to sit in a pub, Spoons' table service, can't come in as 3 people are inside already, and be prevented from being near anyone outside your immediate group.....and that might be before having to pre-book a lot of places.

[IAMBATMAN]

Don't worry your not missing much there considering video games are pretty juvenile and adults who play them constantly are immature. It's so sad to see so many of my fellow millennials wasting their lives away on video games when there are so many opportunities in life to experience and adult orientated hobbies to partake in. Video games are not a healthy hobby for an adult 

gamers are the next sport superstars. It's not always a waste of time especially when you can make millions before you turn 20. Physical sports will be dead in 30 years, you won't see anyone being paid ridiculous money to run around a field people who sit on there asses will be tho

[ratedj]

Don't worry your not missing much there considering video games are pretty juvenile and adults who play them constantly are immature. It's so sad to see so many of my fellow millennials wasting their lives away on video games when there are so many opportunities in life to experience and adult orientated hobbies to partake in. Video games are not a healthy hobby for an adult 

Speak for yourself! 

[Dutchmaster]

I think 7% is just not accurate sounds way too much, also I think a lot of them do cam stuff and not escorting.

[ratedj]

gamers are the next sport superstars. It's not always a waste of time especially when you can make millions before you turn 20. Physical sports will be dead in 30 years, you won't see anyone being paid ridiculous money to run around a field people who sit on there asses will be tho

I highly doubt that, but you are right when you infer that many professional esport players can be well remunerated.

[IAMBATMAN]

I highly doubt that, but you are right when you infer that many professional esport players can be well remunerated.

kids growing up now are all gamers and there kids will be gamers. What do you think they will spend there money on when they get into adulthood? If they arnt watching or playing sports it won't be tickets, shirts, boots and other memorabilia it will be the new CoD or fortnite and all the DLC you have to buy. If no ones spending money on sports then there will be no money to pay them. Look at the strides gaming has made in the last 5-10 years, it's gone from nothing to $60 million exclusivity offers

[ratedj]

kids growing up now are all gamers and there kids will be gamers. What do you think they will spend there money on when they get into adulthood? If they arnt watching or playing sports it won't be tickets, shirts, boots and other memorabilia it will be the new CoD or fortnite and all the DLC you have to buy. If no ones spending money on sports then there will be no money to pay them. Look at the strides gaming has made in the last 5-10 years, it's gone from nothing to $60 million exclusivity offers

I have no doubt that esports is a growing niche, but games such as COD and Fortnite are just that, games. Live sport will continue to be highly desired, and despite your premise, in the last few years I've seen nothing to suggest that esports or FPS games have had, or will have an adverse effect or disrupting influnce on live sport. Video games can add a complementary factor, but I doubt it will add anything else.

[IAMBATMAN]

I have no doubt that esports is a growing niche, but games such as COD and Fortnite are just that, games. Live sport will continue to be highly desired, and despite your premise, in the last few years I've seen nothing to suggest that esports or FPS games have had, or will have an adverse effect or disrupting influnce on live sport. Video games can add a complementary factor, but I doubt it will add anything else.

sport isn't immune to a popularity decrease. Alot can happen in a decade or 2 and I'm not quite sure you actually know how things are now with gaming and streaming popularity

[ratedj]

sport isn't immune to a popularity decrease. Alot can happen in a decade or 2 and I'm not quite sure you actually know how things are now with gaming and streaming popularity

Oh, I'm a so-called millennial so I'm deffo cognisant of gaming and streaming popularity. You no doubt make interesting comments and suggestions. However, whilst the gaming industry has the potential for exponential growth sport will continue to exist in its current guise. Of course, no sport is immune to a popularity decrease, but football, NFL, MLB, tennis, motor sport et al. to suffer from a receding interest at the same time? Highly unlikely.   

[cpw_19]

gamers are the next sport superstars. It's not always a waste of time especially when you can make millions before you turn 20. Physical sports will be dead in 30 years, you won't see anyone being paid ridiculous money to run around a field people who sit on there asses will be tho

Not a chance mate. I realised this when the F1 was off during lockdown - there were some official e-races. Entertaining though they were, it is absolutely nothing like watching the real thing.

[IAMBATMAN]

Oh, I'm a so-called millennial so I'm deffo cognisant of gaming and streaming popularity. You no doubt make interesting comments and suggestions. However, whilst the gaming industry has the potential for exponential growth sport will continue to exist in its current guise. Of course, no sport is immune to a popularity decrease, but football, NFL, MLB, tennis, motor sport et al. to suffer from a receding interest at the same time? Highly unlikely.

league of legends already pulled the same stadium audiences as NFL games back in 2016, things are getting ridiculous atm for viewer ratings and with AR coming through gaming always changes. I did say 30 years not all at once, you will get a steady decline over a few decades. When we were kids we spent 4 hours a day everyday playing football on the street, you just don't see that anymore kids are too busy playing games. that will obviously have an effect on the popularity of other sports over time you just don't see it atm because our gen is still interested and pumping money into it but when this current gen has kids what they like will be passed to the kids and it won't be football

[ratedj]

league of legends already pulled the same stadium audiences as NFL games back in 2016, things are getting ridiculous atm for viewer ratings and with AR coming through gaming always changes. I did say 30 years not all at once, you will get a steady decline over a few decades. When we were kids we spent 4 hours a day everyday playing football on the street, you just don't see that anymore kids are too busy playing games. that will obviously have an effect on the popularity of other sports over time you just don't see it atm because our gen is still interested and pumping money into it but when this current gen has kids what they like will be passed to the kids and it won't be football

I hear everything you are saying, but what I do not understand is why you assume that a growth in gaming and streaming will have a material impact on sport. I just don't see the link, and I've seen nothing to suggest otherwise. It's a completely different strand that will co-exist and develop in its own right, and if I were to hazard a guess I very much doubt that it views itself as a legitimate threat to sport. Your argument would hold more weight if you had evidence to suggest that that gaming and streaming has had a material impact on sport attendances. But hey, you could just be ahead of the curve and I have it all wrong!   

[Marmalade]

Could even be bandwagon for any cancel culture cuties/cunties.
Give them a welcome blanket as long as they don’t want to cancel anybody else.