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French Students Turning to Sex Work?

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Posted on Oct 31, 2006

France’s leading students union estimates that some 40,000 students have taken up prostitution to fund their studies. French police are disputing the report, saying prostitutes are posing as students. (Via BloggerNews)

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  • Independent (UK) via Blogger News:

    A number of young women in France have taken up prostitution to fund their studies, according to a shocking report by the country’s leading students union, SUD-Etudiant Union. This students union estimates that nearly 40,000 students in France, fund their studies through sex jobs like freelancing for escort agencies, webcam striptease, hostess work and pavement prostitution. A survey carried out by the members of this union at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, found that 1.8% of the students surveyed, had worked in the sex industry at some point of time. The union blames the falling subsidies and rising consumerism, for the emergence of the recent ‘sex trends’ among the students.

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    By BARBARA HAWKINS, January 14, 2007 at 4:02 pm #
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    A large amount of UNLV students (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) use the city’s sex industry resources to pay for their tuition and other expenses and yet there’s is no qualified therapist on campus that combines knowledge of psychology as well as sex industry. These students are largely viewed as sex victims and Student Psychological Services is not the least bit resourceful in directing the students to the right counselors, therapists, pshychologists ect. One would think that a leading Metropolitan Unisersity (as it prides itself through its own promo material), located three miles away from the Las Vegas strip, that it would be able to provide its students who are related with the industry with the best support on the planet. But Las Vegas is a city of dichotomies. The relationship of the communites with the strip is hush-hush. The practicies on the strip have been called “paracitic at best” by English Department Professors and the students who are involved are not mature women with money but rather “sex victims” and so they are treated as such by Student Counceling and Psychological Services. To hear that 40,000 students out of France pay for their tuition and expenses via sex industry should prompt us to ask the question: “how are the open minded and not the least bit puritanical French folk deal with it and what programs are they coming up with for those students that would like to break away from the industry?” The French have always offered an interesting perspective on things. Let’s hear them out. I am a graduate student out of UNLV and oftentimes I have relied on the sex industry for additional pocket money. But despite the fact that UNLV is in the heart of Vegas, students who are involved in the industry are widely resented, viewed as unsophisticated, and their stories are sought after politicians for votes.

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