Euro college students selling sex for tuition

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<p>Alert Mini, this must be Bush’s fault.</p>

<p>"French Students Increasingly Become Prostitutes to Pay Tuition, 2 Books Suggest</p>

<p>Two books published in France last week have focused attention on the phenomenon of young women moonlighting as sex workers to finance their university education, The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported today.</p>

<p>One book is a memoir of a 19-year-old modern-languages major named Laura who writes that, in her first year at an unnamed university, she was obliged to resort to prostitution in order to support herself. The other book is a study by Eva Clouet, a 23-year-old master’s student in sociology at the University of Toulouse II, Mirail. In La prostitution étudiante (Student Prostitution), Ms. Clouet focuses on how the advent of the Internet has facilitated certain kinds of prostitution, such as escort work, that students find more palatable than “traditional” streetwalking.</p>

<p>In publicity materials on its Web site, Max Milo, the publisher of both books, cites recent estimates by a student union that as many as 40,000 French students resort to prostitution to finance their studies.</p>

<p>The French newspaper L’Express, which published excerpts of Laura’s memoir, noted in its coverage of the two works that the police estimate the figure at 15,000 to 20,000 students.</p>

<p>A 2006 survey by Kingston University, an institution southwest of London, suggested that the number of British students resorting to sex-industry work to finance their studies had risen sharply in recent years, spurred by recent increases in university tuition.</p>

<p>Desperate students in Britain, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States have, however, long resorted to sex-related jobs to finance the cost of their studies."</p>

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<p>I was trying really hard not to laugh when I read this.</p>

<p>Though, I’ve read a very sad case of a very hardworking girl who worked as an exotic dancer in…Colorado who was on the track team. One night, the boys from the track team went to the strip club and recognized her. Then, they told the coach, who told the school. And she was put on academic probation or…kicked out. I don’t remember. I think she was accepted into some amazing school after her story was publicized. Oh, and she was an incredibly talented student AND athlete.</p>

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<p>“Alert Mini, this must be Bush’s fault.”</p>

<p>Actually, Al Gore’s. ;)</p>

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<p>a student w/child, at Reed, did likewise. Something involving a dentist. Perhaps she needed orthodontal care, pay for day care, tuition, and retirement/529’s.</p>

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<p>A couple of months ago I came across a newspaper article about two young people convicted of a bank robbery. They claimed that they used the proceeds to pay their tuition bill.</p>

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<p>OH PLEASE, this is “new” news? Prostitution is legal some places (NZ for instance). Seems a holistic approach. Body and mind working towards the same goal: education.</p>

<p>AND, several women who are my age contemporaries (HS class of 1968) have fessed-up that their very young first marriage to a well-off older guy was financially motivated, including getting some help with college.</p>

<p>NOT to mention the college girls who worked in the top restaurants with visiting businessmen. I recall they would call the *quid pro quo *a “thank you” gift.</p>

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<p>Stripping has been supporting college women for decades. ( not the same as prostitution obviously- but there is overlap- or so I have heard)
Some are even now college professors and have mentioned it in their books.</p>

<p>Also working as “escorts”.</p>

<p>I don’t think it is necessarily a safe way to make a living, but it certainly pays better than working fast food.</p>

<p>And if you are as observant as former stripper Diablo Cody ( “Juno” screenwriter), you can get a new career out of it.</p>

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<p>Perhaps this explains why more girls go to college than guys? They are the only ones who can afford it.</p>

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<p>Guys can also make a lot of $$$ doing degrading things. Something for parents to think about when you don’t want to pay for the college your kid will do anything to attend!!!</p>

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<p>Muffy333</p>

<p>I agree that the parents need not be held hostage by the student who is just dying to go to their favorite school regardless of the cost.</p>