One in 20 students sell their bodies

[Squire Haggard]

I dont think that the figure is as high as one in 20 students. In the past, I have paid for a few, via Adultwork or saunas, that were students. What do others on here think?

''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.''


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[Llama32]

Can you really blame them, the money's good and you can do it for a couple months and bail after making decent bank.

Considering it's also a Daily Mail article, I'd take their stats with a grain or bag of salt.

[nigel4498]

 I always look forward to October when a new intake arrive and they discover they are living beyond their grant.
Have to admit they are normally very enthusiastic.

[smartieshouse]

They want cash, we want nubile young things = all good!:-)

[doc14]

I live in a Uni city and have no idea where they get that from. certainly not advertising on AW

[Juilius_Sneezer]

Certainly the Aberdeen strip clubs are full of students taking it off for cash. At least 3 of them in my time visiting 1 club were law students. One of my friends started and she made about 2 grand more than she was spending in 3 months.

[smiths]

I dont think that the figure is as high as one in 20 students. In the past, I have paid for a few, via Adultwork or saunas, that were students. What do others on here think?

''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.''


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I don't believe these so called figures and I don't imagine many WGs who are Students are open about it to all and sundry as some at least will be wanting to work in the Law and other areas where them having been a WG could cause them problems. And I of course know being an off/street WG is legal but that doesn't stop some looking down on WGs, so why would they tell others so how could any accurate figures be collected.

[Gordon Bennett]

1 in 20 would mean well over 50000 female Uni student WGs out there........ what an absolute load of cobblers that stat is.

[DickDiver]

Doesn't feel like it. I wish they'd stop speaking to researchers and get their arses on to AW.

[two20]

what are the other 19 doing to help with mounting costs, is there a website I'm missing out on?

[tonibell99]

Those figures are an absolute sack of shit. There's over 40,000 in my city, at 1 in 20 that's 2,000 selling their bodies. where the fuck are they then cos I would struggle to find a dozen. 

[AVGscot]

I knew off a few girls who were strippers while I was at uni and met a couple who claimed to be both but no one came out and admitted to being an escort.
And in Edinburgh a city with four unis you'd expect a lot more young 20 year olds on AW if that 1 in 20 pish was true.

[Tdydl]

My eldest is about to go to university. I am not sure I am looking forward to reading a review on here. Double standards it may be.

[fredpunter]

My eldest is about to go to university. I am not sure I am looking forward to reading a review on here. Double standards it may be.

+1
I've set aside 30,000 for the three years mine will be there in the hope that this and her loans will prevent her feeling the need to earn any extra. But even 10,000 a year doesn't go far these days.
Having said that ... I'd probably be OK about shagging yours 

[Llama32]

+1
I've set aside 30,000 for the three years mine will be there in the hope that this and her loans will prevent her feeling the need to earn any extra. But even 10,000 a year doesn't go far these days.
Having said that ... I'd probably be OK about shagging yours 

The obvious solution here is a daughter swap. You then contribute to each other's daughters uni fund. Maybe even agree a ukpunting discount rate for each other.

[fredpunter]

The obvious solution here is a daughter swap. You then contribute to each other's daughters uni fund. Maybe even agree a ukpunting discount rate for each other.

Interesting notion ... my daughter is an independent lass though ... if she were a prossie she'd never have a pimp .... least of all me! 

[RedKettle]

You walk around Nottingham and see plenty of young fit female student hotties around - they are the cause for me of many an impulsive punt as especially in this hot weather they are dressed to thrill.

If it was remotely true that 1 in 20 of them were escorts I would be a very happy chappie indeed, not to mention very poor.  However I usually end up banging some older tart because a bevy of young student hookers just does not exist!!!

[Colston36]

There is a remarkable number on AW who claim to be students. Mature ones by the look of them.

[RedKettle]

There is a remarkable number on AW who claim to be students. Mature ones by the look of them.

Agreed.

I have seen 3 in the last few years that I actually believe may be students - time will tell as to whether they disappear or stay on the longest university courses ever!

[Swansea lad]

If you join seeking arrangement there will be hundreds of local students who will sleep with you for money. I did it recently. All these girls qualify as the 1/20.

The downsides, some ask for daft money although most come down a lot, very few can accomadate, there tends to be a lot of texting first, they ask to many questions and are to naive to understand your married and paying for the discretion and no commitment, you need to supply condoms as well.

Ignore what their profiles say, most are open to cash for sex, im 30 odd though a lot said they wouldnt sleep with old men, not sure what they think old is!

[myothernameis]

My niece is from Edinburgh, but studies at in Newcastle; one night while at dinner, she brought up the subject of her room mates, and what they have been up to

On the weekends my niece comes home to Edinburgh, but seemingly some of her room mates stay in Newcastle, and escort

Now my niece is 23 years old and very attractive, and no doubt if she decided to be come an escort, she would get plenty of business, all down to her looks; and in comparison she looks like Ariana Grande

[Marmalade]

1 in 20? So if you ask 20 students "can I have sex with you for some money" one of them should say yes. (Though probably won't).

Now if you ask 20 prossies if they pay tax, they'll all say yes. So are prossies twenty times more likely to tell lies than students?

The statistic sounds a bit low. 

[Jumping Jack Flash]

If you join seeking arrangement there will be hundreds of local students who will sleep with you for money. I did it recently. All these girls qualify as the 1/20.

The downsides, some ask for daft money although most come down a lot, very few can accomadate, there tends to be a lot of texting first, they ask to many questions and are to naive to understand your married and paying for the discretion and no commitment, you need to supply condoms as well.

Ignore what their profiles say, most are open to cash for sex, im 30 odd though a lot said they wouldnt sleep with old men, not sure what they think old is!

This

[Cunning Punt]

1 in 20? What absolute bollocks.

Some student escorts are on agencies' websites charging several hundred pounds an hour but AW is still the main adult industry website.

Therefore, I find it surprising how few students actually escort, given the financial pressures nowadays.

There are thousands of prossies, but there is always room for fairly attractive girls offering a reasonable service at a reasonable price - particularly British ones.

But like in other walks of life, the East Europeans do the jobs that British youngsters don't want to do!

[TomR]

I don't know where and how these people get these figures from.

If you think about big uni cities, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds etc and then
try to find student WGs, well, where are they?

I do know that about 10 years ago a fair number of students did work in lap dancing clubs
as at the time I knew a couple of people in the business and unis were good recruiting grounds
as it was considered easy money but that was it, dancing only.

Thousands of student WGs? No evidence of it at all.

[Marmalade]

Amazing how carefully worded the headlines are.....

When you look at the actual research, it's not 5% but 1.3%, so not 1 in 5 but more like one in 75.

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Read the figures, don't include guys, don't include 'indirect' work line phone sex and you get 1.3% escorting.

Anyway, the NUS is now in favour of decriminalisation.

[NelsonH]

At first I also thought this "one in twenty" was absurd.

And if you are thinking "normal" WG, several bookings a day, incall/outcalls etc then it is.
Students don't have the time and organisation to work like that.

But they do tend to be very sexually active so a few "paid for" dates would fit in OK.

So I can believe "one in twenty" has done this at some time. Maybe not often.
This is why there don't seem to be many.

So it may be quite easy for a sensationalistic journo to find girls who admit to "taking money for sex".
They then just over-cook the "facts" a bit. Well, they would, wouldn't they.

[Dodo]

1 in 20!!!!        I wish, in Brum you will be hard pressed to find one on AW and keep in mind if they had any business sense, they would be shouting it from the rafters they were students given the attraction to the punters.
So those stats are a load of bollocks. I would say nearer 1 in 500 from my scientific survey 

[fredpunter]

"Sex work" encompasses everything from chat lines, Web cams, stripping, naked waitering, thru to escorting and sugar babing ... being a disgusting scandal sheet needless to say the mail makes no distinction between them nor does the article appear to distinguish between someone who does it once and some one who does it every day.

In other words it's such a worthless article it's not worthy of taking seriously.

[Juilius_Sneezer]

"Sex work" encompasses everything from chat lines, Web cams, stripping, naked waitering, thru to escorting and sugar babing ... being a disgusting scandal sheet needless to say the mail makes no distinction between them nor does the article appear to distinguish between someone who does it once and some one who does it every day.

In other words it's such a worthless article it's not worthy of taking seriously.

19/20 if sex work also includes flirting for free drinks without putting out 

[Pete ---]

I think this is the underlying report:

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Numbers wise In total 10,991 respondents accessed the survey of which 6,773 represented the final sample after data cleaning

[Taggart]

I think the story and figures at total bollocks. Sensationalist press having a slow news day.
1 in 20 is rubbish. DO an AW search on major university cities and you will find a very small proportion in the 18-21 age band.  Some do do it, I've been with them, but not what the Mail says.

I've watched my area in September and October, and there's no increase to correspond with a new intake of students.

My son did a journalism course at Uni, and the tutors told them that the Mail was the least truthful of all the national papers.

[JV547845]

A lot more than 1 in 20 students is full of bull shit and will tell you anything if they get a laugh out of it

[con-a-ser]

1 in 20 would mean well over 50000 female Uni student WGs out there........ what an absolute load of cobblers that stat is.

Well 1 in 20
if the 20 are 50/50 male / female then the figure is really 1 in 10

[fredpunter]

Well 1 in 20
if the 20 are 50/50 male / female then the figure is really 1 in 10

Please show your working out on a separate sheet of paper ... or admit that you didn't pass your maths gcse

[rubric]

The Wail in 'prints bollocks' surprise. I'm shocked, I'm truly shocked.

[hantshagger]

My eldest is about to go to university. I am not sure I am looking forward to reading a review on here. Double standards it may be.

can you post a body piccie of her for us.,.  also what uni?   

[Marmalade]

My eldest is about to go to university. I am not sure I am looking forward to reading a review on here. Double standards it may be.

If she's thinking about it she might be doing some research thinking she sure is looking forward to reading her old man's posts on UKP.

Suggested blackmail: "Hey Dad, uni fees are really high and I have books and drinks to pay for. Which would you prefer me to do, sell my bod or insist you get a second mortgage? Happy punting." 

[Tdydl]

If she's thinking about it she might be doing some research thinking she sure is looking forward to reading her old man's posts on UKP.

Suggested blackmail: "Hey Dad, uni fees are really high and I have books and drinks to pay for. Which would you prefer me to do, sell my bod or insist you get a second mortgage? Happy punting." 

She would need to know my punting identity for this. I would like to think my security measures are adequate.

[oring123]

I think the story and figures at total bollocks. Sensationalist press having a slow news day.
1 in 20 is rubbish. DO an AW search on major university cities and you will find a very small proportion in the 18-21 age band.  Some do do it, I've been with them, but not what the Mail says.

I've watched my area in September and October, and there's no increase to correspond with a new intake of students.

My son did a journalism course at Uni, and the tutors told them that the Mail was the least truthful of all the national papers.

not so was  the news of the world now the sun.

[purple_t]

As others have said, 1 in 20 seems very high, I find it very hard to believe there are that many

[Ali Katt]

I think I've seen 2 genuine students and I've been punting since around 2007\08. There seems to be a lot of 40 year old EE students on the game and a few single mothers who happen to be students. Can anybody remember when they were all models, student seems to be the new marketing ploy.

There's actually very few prossies under 25.

[ProfessorYaffle]

I punt in the NE which is quite isolated geographically and has a fairly small, well established pool of WGs.

There are 100,000 university students in the NE:
27,000 Northumbria
23,000 Newcastle
20,000 Teesside
17,000 Durham
13,000 Sunderland

Assume half of those are female.

While there definitely are students escorting in the NE, if there are even 50 of them (and I'd be surprised if there were anywhere near that many), that is only 1 in 1000.

[kefell]

Keep an eye on Craigslist, 99.9% of the W4M ads are fakes but just now and then you get a genuine student on there .... think there are a couple advertising from Newcastle/ Northumbria over the last couple of weeks.

[luckyleon]

One in 20 students sell their bodies

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wished that was definitely the case but sadly completely the total opposite, or else cities like York would be blooming with teen student escorting, but its actually as dead as the number of gypsy travelers escorting = none

if you don't believe me, check out the york punting section and have a look;
https://www.ukpunting.com/index.php?topic=94041.0