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UK students and sex work: current knowledge and research issues
Author(s) -
Roberts Ron,
Bergström Sandra,
La Rooy David
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of community and applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.042
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1099-1298
pISSN - 1052-9284
DOI - 10.1002/casp.908
Subject(s) - work (physics) , politics , gender balance , exploratory research , sex work , psychology , order (exchange) , balance (ability) , scale (ratio) , public relations , social psychology , sociology , political science , social science , gender studies , business , medicine , law , engineering , finance , mechanical engineering , family medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , neuroscience , physics , quantum mechanics
Available evidence, largely arecdotal suggests that students are turning to quick ways of making money such as work in the sex industry in order to balance their finances, a trend seen in other countries with similar student support and tuition fee policies. Further research is urgently needed to understand the scale of student involvement in sex work and to clarify our understanding of the factors that influence the decision to engage in it. Unfortunately a number of methodological, practical and political problems stand in the way of such research. These are discussed together with preliminary findings from an exploratory study. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.