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Selling your body is just another normal student job now apparently

112 replies

Blackberrypiesforbreakfast · 25/09/2018 23:09

A sex workers cooperative actually have a stand at a university freshers fair. I am really scared by how quickly this is being normalised.

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Turph · 28/09/2018 15:17

This has never happened in any country.
What about a receptionist job in a mega brothel? I guess that couldn't be turned down, like an office manager's job for an abattoir, or a cleaner's job for a political party you disagreed with.

YoloSwaggins · 28/09/2018 15:13

It really is being normalised and glamourised in the media now. Look at how much airtime Megan Barton-Hanson gets with her "I used to lapdance/camgirl for money and it was great" story.

traceyracer · 28/09/2018 14:33

that hoax is about 13 years old now and I was expecting someone to bring that up

feministire.com/2015/01/30/happy-tenth-birthday-to-the-telegraphs-brothel-job-hoax/

don't believe everything you read in online media articles.

traceyracer · 28/09/2018 13:27

"soon the job centre will be advertising sex work as a valid job and women who refuse to apply will be sanctioned."

This has never happened in any country.

Charlieiscool · 28/09/2018 09:46

Has anyone confirmed that this stand was genuinely there? It’s not just some Twitter joke it is? It isn’t in the press today and I would think it would have been picked up.

WhatTheWatersShowedMe · 28/09/2018 08:44

Omfg.
I am applying to Brighton uni for next September. I’ll be emailing them about this, what a fucking disgrace

bd67th · 27/09/2018 22:15

Female purity is a notion invented by men.

"[The monogamous family] is based on the supremacy of the man, the express purpose being to produce children of undisputed paternity; such paternity is demanded because these children are later to come into their father’s property as his natural heirs." Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

In reality most 'sex work' involves creating images which will be on the internet forever.

Having sex in a venue controlled by a man can create those images too. Remember that thread someone made about the tiny cameras? If it's his flat or bedroom, or even if he got to a hotel room first, he could have rigged it with cameras.

I'm glad I don't have kids, I couldn't bear them growing up into a world like this.

bd67th · 27/09/2018 18:25

WTF? Confused Angry punters who kidnap and rape anyone, whether a prostitute or not, should be prosecuted.

Funny how it's only so-called "SWERFs" who actually give a shit about this. It's disgraceful that the police deem prostituted women unworthy of protection. This is another institutional safeguarding failure, did the police learn nothing from the Ipswich cases?

bd67th · 27/09/2018 17:54

picture of a woman with semen dripping out of her mouth and sonething about spit or swallow

It was toothpaste but the double entendre was clear.

LittleMissedTheSunshine · 27/09/2018 17:52

I know. Some women may feel selling sex is preferable to debt.

Turph · 27/09/2018 17:21

images which will be on the internet forever. We need to recognise this as an added problem when we discuss this problem.
Young people don't plan ahead. Brains not fully formed etc. Plus sexting pics ("send nudes") is so mainstream, girls are blasé about it. Those pics and vids end up online. (Google the story of isanyoneup)
Funnily, there are (very sad and shocking) stories of men filmed masturbating online and then blackmailed, sometimes committing suicide over the shame of it.
But nothing about girls with ruined reputations unable to find work, that's too common to merit a mention. Angry

noeffingidea · 27/09/2018 16:59

LittleMissedTheSunshine grants and 'things' have been replaced by student loans.

DJLippy · 27/09/2018 15:40

The reality is that women have a reputation to maintain. The idea that its the women who warn girls that this is an issue are the ones creating the problem is the most fucked up piece of DARVO in existence.

Whore was not a word invented by women. Female purity is a notion invented by men. In the real world women need to recognize that you can't become a porn star and then have a normal life. You are tainted. Not in the eyes of feminists - in the eyes of society.

In reality most 'sex work' involves creating images which will be on the internet forever. We need to recognise this as an added problem when we discuss this problem.

Annandale · 27/09/2018 15:21

Her reputation?? Jeez. We really are back in 1879. I wouldn't put it past TM to spend her evenings trawling studentroom.co.uk like Gladstone imploring the fallen women to clean up their online profiles.

LittleMissedTheSunshine · 27/09/2018 15:17

When I was at Uni (oxbridge) you weren't even allowed a normal job in term time let alone a sex worker one. But then we had grants and things in them days...

DJLippy · 27/09/2018 15:17

There is no such thing as 'just' a prostitute now. Modern day prostitution involves marketing yourself - i.e. being an amateur porn star. Watched a doc about a pop up brothel and even the trafficked East European girls were expected to post pictures online and had their pimps manage their online profiles.

I saw a heartbreaking BBC Three doc the other day about a girl starting out in porn game. She was a graduate but unemployable because she'd done a bit of camgirling at university and now her reputation was trashed. The documentary is literally called 'why I chose porn' Its a joke she was backed into a corner and now living a life of abuse and isolation.

Even if a girl does 'safe' camwhoring she's still in danger of ruining her reputation - which is gonna fuck up all her future professional career prospects.

0ccamsRazor · 27/09/2018 15:09

Fuck fuck fucking hell, what the fuck is happening?

We were celebrating 100 years of suffrage this year, but all I see now is woman's rights going fucking backwards.

I am so Angry

I feel so much rage.

Does anyone else feel like this?

Elephantinacravat · 27/09/2018 15:00

Oh it's says it's 'trans inclusive' in the bio, what a fucking surprise.

Honestly, I am literally horrified at this. Fucking horrified.

Elephantinacravat · 27/09/2018 14:59

What the chargrilled fuck is this?

qawsderf · 27/09/2018 14:56

Although it is Brighton Uni, the stand was at the Eastbourne Branch.

Unlike Brighton, Eastbourne is a very conservative town.

ErrolTheDragon · 27/09/2018 14:51

Apparently there were two separate cases of women being kidnapped and raped in Holbeck, that were not prosecuted because the punters mistook them for prostitutes.

WTF?ConfusedAngry punters who kidnap and rape anyone, whether a prostitute or not, should be prosecuted.

Coyoacan · 27/09/2018 14:47

Apparently there were two separate cases of women being kidnapped and raped in Holbeck, that were not prosecuted because the punters mistook them for prostitutes.

Does anyone tell these students being recruited into prostitution that the law will cease to protect them?

ToeToToe · 26/09/2018 16:50

So awful.

I said this on the beer mat toothpaste student thread - this is what a generation of online porn has done to young men. Something like 80% of online porn shows women being degraded or abused.

Our young men are practically raised on this shit now. We can't allow this stuff to be normalised (it has been, very successfully) and let them to see this stuff from about the age of 11 or whatever, and expect them to not transfer this into their real life relationships, and their real life treatment of women.