Idk BeeDAre - I guess being a prostitute for a very limited period of time in possibly much safer circumstances than most prostitutes find themselves would be preferable – to me – over decades of debt. Thankfully, I never had to make that choice.
But even better would be to have no debt and not have to do any such thing to get an education. I do place some blame on parents when kids find themselves taking desperate financial measures to stay in college. We are talking about decent students (or they wouldn’t have gotten into college in the first place). If they find themselves facing mountains of debt, then they were not well advised or well prepared by the adults in their lives. As we know, there are usually alternative ways to pay for an education with proper planning and approach.
Otoh, the ones who may be doing it for other reasons, or who possibly ignored the advice of their parents, or certainly the more savvy grad students, well I pass no judgment on whatever bargains they feel like making with their lives.