University of Leicester Commercial enterprise in promoting Sex Work

[SapatSea]

This is an issue I've felt very strongly about since a local uni (not UoL) had stalls at Freshers week promoting "sex work" as a viable part time "job" in the guise of "supporting students" and were turning a blind eye to complaints from female students about students "hosting clients" in Halls.

The University of Leicester received public funding through the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) to produce a "sex work" handbook and training materials/courses. They have made this into a "commercial venture" and are refusing a Freedom Of Information request about details of the funding (from Nordic Model Now) as:
"We consider that the disclosure of the material would make public the groundwork of our range of training packages, which are of substantial commercial value to the University."

nordicmodelnow.org/2022/04/08/the-university-of-leicester-reveals-its-student-sex-work-project-is-a-substantial-commercial-opportunity/

Universities seem to have become pretty sleazy businesses

It is likely Universities will have students who are sex workers, so it makes sense to offer support.

It makes sense to offer support, but not to promote it as commercially useful to the uni. What, you need a degree to do sex work now? I thought education was about protecting you from needing to do that.

Pretending sex work is empowering etc encourages young women to be complicit in their own oppression when they are being used by disgusting men who think it's a human right to stick their dick in someone else's body.

The sex work is work horseshit only benefits men by degrading women.

Sexual offences act 2003 52.Causing or inciting prostitution for gain

(1)A person commits an offence if—

(a)he intentionally causes or incites another person to become a prostitute in any part of the world, and

(b)he does so for or in the expectation of gain for himself or a third person.

Which in turn leads to money laundering offences.

So the Uni, accountants, solicitors, bankers, printers, web designers etc etc are all profiting from pimping of college students.

All wrapped up in nice suits and nice white shirts and a corporate logos.

Offering support/advice is not the same as "inciting".

Would offering support/advice/info etc on say, recreational drugs be "inciting people to take drugs"?

@Whatsnewpussyhat

Pretending sex work is empowering etc encourages young women to be complicit in their own oppression when they are being used by disgusting men who think it's a human right to stick their dick in someone else's body.

The sex work is work horseshit only benefits men by degrading women.

This.

@MargaritaPie

Offering support/advice is not the same as "inciting".

Would offering support/advice/info etc on say, recreational drugs be "inciting people to take drugs"?

Yes It is inciting re-drugs. That's why there are no facilities for checking "purity" and other forms of outreach where drug taking is liable to take place

If the Uni is profiting indirectly from women selling sex then they are inciting indirectly the exploitation of women.

@MargaritaPie

Offering support/advice is not the same as "inciting".

Would offering support/advice/info etc on say, recreational drugs be "inciting people to take drugs"?

You missed the profit taking element.

Want to quote other state funded organisation in harm reduction sphere which refuse FOI on the basis of commercial interests and the need to retaining compeditive advantage?