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15th Sep 2015

This is how many university students are doing pornography to pay the bills

You'll be surprised...

Ben Kenyon

If you had a job during uni, you were probably working in a bar, behind a shop counter or handing out flyers for some debauched all-you-can-drink bar crawl.

That’s still the case for many students, according to a new study into how students are funding their way through university with spiralling rents to pay.

But nowadays more than a third of students are finding jobs online – and earning themselves up to £189 a week in the process.

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Selling clothes and blogging accounted for more than one third of the 995 students in the VoucherCodesPro study who said they did online work.

But a remarkable 11% of those said they did pornography to pay the bills while at uni. Another 19% said they did ‘webcam work’, which sounds pretty damn suspicious to us.

There were 4% who even said they had sold worn underwear to make ends meet.

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These were the reasons given for taking up these unusual lines of online work….

  1. My student loan did not cover my rent – 31%
  2. I wanted extra money – 24%
  3. I enjoyed the work – 19%
  4. I liked the risk involved with the work – 18%
  5. I couldn’t get any other work – 12%

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Porn,Students