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Students are turning to sex work for extra money

by technobabble on 12/27/18, 3:45 AM with 25 comments

• by Bucephalus355 on 12/27/18, 5:49 AM

  This has been going on for a while. At the dorm I lived at in Austin back in 2015 for a 1 year masters (more like a co-op for older students), every woman there was on the website Seeking Arrangement (https://seeking.com). This emerged after someone, more of a joke at first, took a poll on this at a house meeting (weekly governance thing).

  It’s enormously tempting. Every freshman girl knows at UT that if she wants, there is a guy waiting to give her between $1,500 - $3,000 a month.

  It’s spread into high schools now, usually either because teachers are found to be on the app or a rumor spreads through the school about a girl being on there.

  It made The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of UT, a few months ago: http://dailytexanonline.com/2018/09/11/college-sugar-babies-...

• by thatoneuser on 12/27/18, 7:13 PM

  I’m in a devils advocate kinda mood, so hopefully people here can take a spirited prod:

  So where does equality fit into this? I don’t think this phenomena is so rampant that double digit percentages of women are doing this (though I have no idea), so this whole thing probably isn’t that big of a deal. But honestly, if this entitles women to an easy and maybe even comfortable way of making big dollars in their youth/lack of talent, what will we do to enable young men to also pay for school/living/etc in their youth? I mean if I could send some self destructing photos to older women in college with no social/professional ramifications and make 1-3k a month, I would never have worked the shitty part time jobs I did. Doesn’t really seem like an egalitarian idea for half of the population to be able to take the easy path while the other toils away.

• by juicethecat on 12/27/18, 1:33 PM

  I'm surprised at the comments missing this, but it's not younger generation paying these prostitutes.

  It's older generation who sold them lies and stole their future.

  Another raindrop in the ocean of reasons, the youth are turning populist.

• by anovikov on 12/27/18, 9:27 AM

  Lol, so someone's 'learning difficulties' prevent her from getting and holding onto a simplistic part-time work, 'forcing' her to do prostitution, but does not prevent doing full time education? Something is wrong there.

• by InGodsName on 12/27/18, 12:42 PM

  There is normal in Japan/Korea/China hell even India in Mumbai where people are more outgoing.

  Also, how much money do you need for education in uk these days?

  People look at risk vs reward.

  Sex is no longer a tabbo and arguably it's the easiest and most natural work.

  Incels will be infuriated at this.

  Very soon we'll see news that top 1% sleep with 90% students.

• by black-tea on 12/27/18, 8:46 AM

  They blame this on higher student expenses yet clearly only women are able to get money from sex so how are the men able to survive? Why not just be honest? Women are selling their bodies not because they need to but because they want to.