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Medical Students Feel Forced To Become Prostitutes To Pay Bills


No matter how many college loans you may still have to pay off, be thankful if you’re not a medical student in the United Kingdom, where students are increasingly turning to prostitution to pay off debt and their tuition bills.

A new paper by British medical student, Jodi Dixon finds that med students in the UK are beginning to “view prostitution as an easy way to get rich quick.” The author believes part of the issue likely stems from medical students having to remain in school for many years and having less time to take on paying jobs. Dixon surveyed 300 British university students, 10 percent of which claimed to know someone who dabbled in prostitution in 2010. That’s a four percent jump from 2006 and a six percent rise from 2000, and Dixon says the jolt in student prostitution may go hand-in-hand with increasing tuition costs.

Dixon says it’s a “shame” that many people think prostitution is their only way out of debt and that it’s “unacceptable [that] a student[would be] forced into prostitution out of financial desperation.” Prostitution is legal in the United Kingdom, but I think we can agree that laws are beside the point here.

Of course, in Santorum’s version of events these are the snobbiest prostitutes ever.

[LiveScience]

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  • Anonymous

    This constitutes journalism?

  • Just Another Blowhard

    Uhm, thats not the picture that was posted on Mediaite. 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     But it got us both.
    : )

  • Anonymous

    The article has a whiff of Onion about it.

  • 12voltman1

    Me too.
    Grabed my attention.

  • Anonymous

    Time to get a checkup!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gordon-Bloyer/537945868 Gordon Bloyer

    Bill Clinton will be moving there soon.

  • http://www.facebook.com/hehilljr Howard Hill Jr.

    I guess during hard times, People do what ever they have to do to survive!  

  • Anonymous

    can’t comment right now. I have to hurry over to the bullitin boards an Vandy. 

  • Anonymous

    Bible said there would be a Day of the Whore.

  • 12voltman1

    Made ya look!

  • NeoKong

    Nice gratuitous crack at Santorum.
    So by Laura’s logic  I guess this means that Barack Obama wants more women to become prostitutes.

  • Anonymous

    Hard Times? or is this symptomatic of state run Health Care?

  • http://twitter.com/kathy_kitt ksqared

    This was one of the storylines on the blink and you missed it reincarnation of Melrose Place.  One of the pretty young things who lived in the building had to pimp herself out to pay her Med school bills.

  • Anonymous

    Medical student gets STD, student gets social medicine:  see, it works!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, but it simply reinforces the stereotype that women have nothing to offer other than looks. This ‘column’ is poorly written with really no substantiation about the the so called ‘research’. Shouldn’t Laura Donovan actually know how to write before putting this drivel online?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     That comes from diet.

  • Smack80

    Wow! Is there a Hallmark card for that?

  • Smack80

    And in my header it looks like Franklin Graham is looking down her cleavage! 

  • Anonymous

    Damn it… 

  • Anonymous

    Shame on Mediaite for objectifying women with that partial picture on the link.

    And shame of The Jane Dough for not having that picture in full on the page when we click the link.  False advertising, I call it!

  • obviously..

    ….and who says only women go into prostitution?

  • Jacques

    Who said sex work was only for women? I’ve been a “retired male sex worker” lo these many years, but I don’t regret it.

  • Anonymous

    Wait.  They really ARE working their way through college?  Huh.

  • Just Another Blowhard

    It was called my divorce

  • Smack80

    Ouch! She must have had the better lawyer! ;-)

  • Anonymous

     So this is where Gordon Bloyer likes to pop up.

    The Ann Coulter poster in the basement is getting a bit tiresome?

  • Flyboykc10

    I like the political sucker punch at the end. Of course it is out of context, cause a simple google search for a transcript shows Santorum called Obama a snob, not college students. No matter your view, if a so called journalist must intentionally take things out of context to try and score a political point it shows they have no character or integrity. Therefore that lack of character and integrity reflects onto their work which probably has no character either and must be disregarded as spinned opinion at best.

  • Ben

    wut?

  • Ben

    Yo,where’s the nurse pic damn it.

  • Guest

    I thought that going to University meant a lot of one night stands and general sex, so they may as well get paid for it! Prostitution is the oldest job and is not affected by recession!

  • PaultheMagyar

    The Santorum comment was right on: Only a fool like Santorum could find a way to denigrate higher education as the pasttime of a snob.

  • Anonymous

    Nope, it constitutes completion of the Alinskyite plan to use this woman as bait for conservatives. The idea is to be such a blithering, simpering, part of the parasite class, that no anti-nanny state talk show host could resist tearing this little welfare poster wimp down. Then using the typical Obamist Alinsky-ite tactic, find the target, isolate the target, ridicule the target. Nothing more than this. Rush blew it though. He should have called out the correct comment about her being willing to be considered a slut or a prostitute, as the media tweak of the day. This woman is the worst of the welfare based Tapeworm Party that only wants to take from all of us, and not have to sacrifice one thing for themselves. Or to make it more clear “go buy your own contraceptives, or try condoms which are cheaper you blithering idiot”. What a willing Pelosi Stooge

  • Anonymous

    Drivel is in the procedure of the ridicule part of the Alinsky tactic. No one actually cares about what these fools say, they just overwhelm with volume. Idiocy knows no bounds. Try this Sandra, if you can’t afford it, don’t do it. Idiot. 

  • Anonymous

    Men do too. After all the Dems leader Congressman Barney Frank supported a male prostitution ring out of his Wash D.C. apartment. But he didn’t “know anything about it” when it was finally exposed. Oh, and he was sleeping (welll……whatever) with a Fannie Mae regulator as well. 

  • Anonymous

    Good for you. Tough job. I’m serious. No one really knows the truth about that. At least you worked for a living. Better than the parasites today.

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