Leicester Escorts

Universities need to wise up to when students are doing work that’s dodgy, unfair, or risky. That could be in pubs, shops, or other casual jobs – and it could be in sex work. The myth of student sex work is that it’s only done by 19-year-old students who want a sugar daddy to buy them fancy stuff – not a parent-student who’s taking a well-paid and flexible job in between juggling studying, housework, and looking after the kids. Not that I’m judging either way – I’ve seen both – but sex workers and their reasons for doing it are different (in fact, the English Collective of Prostitutes found in 2019 that most sex workers are mums).

Sex work is different, too. Sugarbabying (usually a sexual relationship with – often much older – person in exchange for money and/or gifts) and escorting (in-person paid sex) are common. The recent cost of living survey by Canterbury Christ Church SU found that of the (few) students who had done sex work, sending used clothes was the most common type of sex work done by their students, followed by intimate photos and OnlyFans. 58.3 per cent of the students who had done sex work in the past year said it was for money reasons – with a fair bit of these saying it was specifically to pay their way through uni. Whether we like it or not – students are getting paid for a kind of work to get through the cost of living crisis, And that’s work.

Do you remember what happened back in November 2021 at the University of Durham Students’ Union? They got a lot of flak for teaching their staff about student sex work. Some people even said they didn’t care about other kinds of work (that’s not true, by the way, they did).

They did the training because they wanted their staff to know the facts and the myths about sex work. That way, they could help student sex workers in different ways. Maybe they need some money, maybe they want to quit, or maybe they just want to feel supported. It’s important that student sex workers – and trust me, they are out there – feel that their institution is on their side.

Life is getting harder, right? More and more students have to work part-time, and some of them even do sex work. I’m worried about how many of them don’t know how to stay safe, because their universities don’t tell them anything. Maybe the universities are scared of what the media or the politicians will say if they do.

There was this student sex worker I met when I worked at a students’ union. She had a nasty client who knew about this thing called “morality clause” – it’s when the university can kick you out if you don’t behave the way they want, and they have used it against student sex workers. He was blackmailing her with that. She didn’t know that her university didn’t have one until three months later. If her university had shown her some support (I mean, support for sex workers, not for sex work), this wouldn’t have happened.

Some people always say bad things about sex work. They say it’s different from other work because it’s humiliating – but that’s just their opinion, and it says more about them than about sex work. Besides, from the students we talked to, it seems that humiliation is not something that only happens in sex work.

If we don’t tell students how to be safe, they will look for it somewhere else – and they might get the wrong information. I googled “escort” and checked out The Student Room. I saw some scary, wrong, and risky answers from students to students who wanted to be escorts. And nobody said anything about the laws or the problems that come with the work that students really need to know – like if two or more sex workers share a house or live together, that’s an illegal brothel and they can go to jail for seven years.

The Nordic Model Now, a group of ill informed protagonists delivered a list of signatures to Leicester University.  Leicester University had made the mistake of advising those students who participate in sex work on their rights and how to be save. They also advised staf on how to approach sex workers.  All very well intentioned, but not what the Nordic Model Now campaign wants to here.  The official statement from Leicester University was.

“The University of Leicester has a responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of our whole university community.

“Our priority remains the care and wellbeing of all our students – they have the right to be safe and free from harm, whether they are studying or working.

“We do not take this responsibility lightly and we are seeking to provide students this may affect with all relevant support. As such we will be reviewing this petition.

“We emphasise that we are categorically not encouraging students into sex work. We understand that some students may decide to undertake sex work for a number of reasons, and this is a reality at universities across the world.”

The facecious response from the Nordic Model Now was "Yes, Geoff Green. And pigs can fly."

How can this organisation be taken seriously? Indeed they must be taken seriously, because their canpaigning hurts sex workers every where, and if they have their way, then all sex workers will be hurt. Leicester University had many academics researching into the saftey of sex workers, and their conclusion is totally at odds with the Nordic Model campaign. 

Who do I trust, the experts. Those who have dedicated their lifes to working with sex workers and researching their needs.

LAST week Diane Abbott MP tweeted about the “sex worker” training that Durham University was offering its students. Her detractors were soon out in hordes insisting that “sex work” just needs to be made safe and she is simply not progressive enough to understand.

The Universites are being positive in providing saftey advice. No one denies that selling sexual services can be dangerous. The attitude of sweeping it under the carpet, and criminilising those involved (buying or selling) make the work even more dangerous.  Rather tham implementing the Noridic Model as proposed by Anna Fisher of Nordic Model Now! (nordicmodelnow.org).

A total decriminilisation is called for. Peer reviewed research in sex work comes out positively on the benefits of decriminilisation as implemented in New Zealand and New South Wales. The Nordic Model Now have a few people who have worked in the sex industry who fight for the end of the sex industry. This is opposed to the hundreds of thousands working in it now.

Durham, Newcastle and Manchester are the only Russell Group universities that have policies in place to support their students who work in the sex industry. There is an estimate that there are 214,200 student sex workers. That does sound high to me, but not all those student sex workers would be student escorts.

It is a pity that other Universities do not provide advice to those who are sex workers. Advice on STIs, the law, and organisations they can turn to for help.

Outside the Russell Group unis, Leicester University released the Student Sex Work Toolkit. The safety resource includes details for staff on how to communicate with students about their sex work and signposting of further sources of information. They also outline a guide on the legalities of sex work and tips for students to keep themselves safe.

None of this is encouragement to students to work as escorts, but rather to help those who already work in the sex industry to be safe.

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The headline

A university in the United Kingdom has come under fire for its online "toolkit" which critics have called out as a guide for students to make money by creating their own pornography.

No this is  not the case. This university, Leicester, knows that some students are sex workers, strippers, full service or video. This university has done much research into sex work and decided to provide those students who are sex workers advise on how to stay safe.  That sounds really good advice, and more universities should follow suite. 

The university provided two sets of advice, one for student sex workers, and the other to staff who might come across students who sell sex. Often student sex workers at university are stgimatised and trated badley by staff and other students. The advice is there to staff to provide a better working relationship with the Leicester Student Escorts.

Desperate students selling sex to make ends meet are behind a surge of pleas for help to the “prostitutes’ union”.

The English Collective of Prostitutes said calls to its helpline from young people at university and college have risen by a third in 2021.

And the campaigning group has seen a surge in the numbers selling sex since lockdowns sent student finances into freefall.

Many sell explicit pictures of themselves on sites like OnlyFans as traditional bar and shop jobs have dried up.

Now as many as eight students a day are calling for support and advice. And some universities are publishing guides on how to safely sell your body.

Laura Watson, a spokeswoman for the group, said: “We have seen a significant increase in students going into prostitution as tuition fees have increased.

The University of Leicester has published a leaflet on sex working students. The intention to provide advice to lecturers and other students. The aim is to destigmatise those selling sexual services so that they are not bullied. Many students selling sex have found difficulty in their education when the tutors and other students find out. They may be bullied by other students. Tutors have been known to be dismissive and prejudiced, making it hard for the student to progress.

Leicester University is to be congratulated on the stance. They do not deserve to be condemned and called PIMPS.  There has been a hideous social media campaign from so-called feminists.

The University of Leicester is requiring all its staff support any students who turn to prostitution and other sex work to fund their studies.

Two years since the cap on university tuition fees was removed, more students are turning to a variety of adult jobs to help them get by.

The policy also requires all university staff to support any student sex workers being harassed on campus for being sex workers and also had “a duty to support students undergoing disciplinary action by a professional body” over their sex work.