Berlin uni students seek sex work
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May 19, 2011, Thursday
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ONE in three university students in the German capital would consider sex work to finance their education, a Berlin Studies Centre study released yesterday said.
The figure in Berlin, where prostitution is legal, was higher than students surveyed in Paris (29.2 percent) and in Kiev (18.5 percent), the three cities the report looked at.
The study found some 4 percent of the 3,200 Berlin students surveyed said they had already done some form of sex work, which includes prostitution, erotic dancing and Internet shows.
The results surprised the study's authors, who said they undertook the study because student prostitution had been often reported but little was known about its relationship to education policy.
"The main motivation of students to turn to prostitution were the financial incentives, namely the high hourly wages," Eva Blumenschein, one of the study's authors and a student at Berlin's Humboldt University, said.
Thirty percent of students working in the sex industry were in debt, the study found.
The figure in Berlin, where prostitution is legal, was higher than students surveyed in Paris (29.2 percent) and in Kiev (18.5 percent), the three cities the report looked at.
The study found some 4 percent of the 3,200 Berlin students surveyed said they had already done some form of sex work, which includes prostitution, erotic dancing and Internet shows.
The results surprised the study's authors, who said they undertook the study because student prostitution had been often reported but little was known about its relationship to education policy.
"The main motivation of students to turn to prostitution were the financial incentives, namely the high hourly wages," Eva Blumenschein, one of the study's authors and a student at Berlin's Humboldt University, said.
Thirty percent of students working in the sex industry were in debt, the study found.
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