Contact Admin. Most of the freshers are young, many still teenagers. Many are vulnerable and worried about money. All of these factors can lead young people, especially girls and young women, to consider prostitution as a viable option.
However, research shows that the life of women involved in prostitution is at best unstable, at worst extremely dangerous. Long-term physical, emotional and psychological consequences are inevitable.
This is how one young woman described her recent experience in prostitution. They paid me and then used me however they wanted. I was beaten with objects until I bled, spat at, anally raped, gang-raped, passed around at sex parties like a toy, men slipping off their condoms.
I was scared every single second. How is it ethical to suggest, even obliquely, that this is a reasonable option for a young woman to whom you have a duty of care? Or the corollary β that buying sex β is an acceptable option for a young man? This does not really wash because we know from speaking to women currently and previously involved in prostitution that they would never approach such a public stall for fear of being outed to their peers, which could put them in real danger of assault by men.
Swop must be well aware of this dynamic. A genuine effort to reach students currently engaged with prostitution could more appropriately be made discreetly through the student welfare service. As such the stall would inevitably serve to groom both young women and young men to accept and participate in this most oppressive and inhumane institution that is both a cause and consequence of the gross inequality between the sexes.
