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You might want to rethink that. That cultural value makes sense when there is broadly rising economic activity. In my experience parents and their children are
by internaut 10y ago
You might want to rethink that. That cultural value makes sense when there is broadly rising economic activity.
In my experience parents and their children are operating in two completely different economies.
To be blunt in case I risk being overly oblique: 1/3 of the female students at my university did sex work to pay the rent. That's in a place where they worked hard to get into an elite university and didn't have to pay extraordinary tuition fees.
Further down the socioeconomic ladder it gets worse. Merely surviving without debt is a success story for a millennial.
I have to say: almost everything on this subject I read from the media is a fiction. I'm not saying the stats are made up, but the overwhelming impression you get from the box on the wall is powerfully wrong.
- GuiA 10y agoIn which city (or country, if city is too specific) did you go to university?
- internaut 10y agoThe UK, at a red brick (that's the British Ivy League). The basic cost of living (rent/council tax/water bills/food prices) has been gradually inflating while the cost of labour increased at a far more modest rate. This has been true for a long time. I think because it is a creeping thing it is harder to spot when the new normal began. Anecdotal but several degree holders I knew in college (mostly accountants!) continue with prostitution afterwards as well because it is otherwise difficult to make ends meet. The explanation I'm partial to is that the price of energy has stalled progress for most people in western society. When you look back to 1973 it is really quite dramatic but we are now used to high prices and the various accommodations made as side affects. I know most people my age see 2008 as a break point, but the rot has been going on for much longer than that.
- ternaryoperator 10y agoI believe Mr. Kemendo is being facecious.
- AndrewKemendo 10y agoThat's a bingo.
- jstanley 10y ago> 1/3 of the female students at my university did sex work to pay the rent I find it hard to believe there's enough customers to make this viable, let alone that it actually happens. Do you have some source to back this claim up?
- DanBC 10y agoOne study by Swansea claimed that it's 1 in 20 students. That covered the whole spectrum of sex work. http://www.thestudentsexworkproject.co.uk/ http://www.thestudentsexworkproject.co.uk/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/11499381/Student-sex-work-the-secret-industry-in-Britains-universities.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/11499381/Student-sex-wo... http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/student-sex-workers-talk-about-the-job http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/student-sex-workers-talk-abou...
- ryao 10y agoThe internet could easily support an entire university's female student population doing this sort of thing. :/
- mac01021 10y ago> 1/3 of the female students at my university did sex work to pay the rent. What did all the male students do to solve the same problem? Just regular jobs? If the girls were doing sex work just because it's easier/more-pleasant than spending 25hours per week waiting tables or stocking shelves then this doesn't seem to make much of a point. On the other hand, if sex work is generally an act of desperation then I'm genuinely curious about what an equally desperate boy in similar circumstances tends to do.