Multiple Identities of Student Sex Workers

Download or read book Multiple Identities of Student Sex Workers written by Alexander Petro and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous literature assessed the prevalence of student sex work at five (Sagar, Jones, Symons, Bowring, & Roberts, 2015) to six percent (Roberts, Jones, & Sanders, 2013). Universities should be interested in the well-being of their students and refrain from partaking in the discrimination that student sex workers already experience. A majority of institutions lack official policies or guidance related to student sex work (Lantz, 2005), which curtails efforts to provide adequate resources and services to students involved in the sex industry. This exploratory and qualitative research interviewed students from different universities in Southern California to gain understanding of how student sex workers perceive their ability to coordinate their academic responsibilities with their work and how they describe their needs and challenges. Themes that emerged included sex work as form of empowerment, higher education as tool of transformation, sex work as flexible way to finance education, intersection of sex work and student identify and impact of sex work on interpersonal relationships.