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This map provided by SeekingArrangment.com, a website that connects sugar daddies to sugar babies, illustrates the websites 3.25 for money and gifts, are female college students and Utah ranks No. 29 in the nation According to its website, 44 percent of sugar babies, individuals who date older people for concentration of female sugar babies. million Students become sex workers to pay Westminster College tuition would just have sex with all of these people and I felt like I was getting nothing in return at all However, after a string of events left her thou- - MCCALL MASH MANAGING EDITOR One October day, Kaylee dressed in short shorts and a homemade high-waist- ed sands of dollars in debt, Kaylee said she felt like the only option she had was to become a sex worker: striped crop top to meet Jay at a local coffee shop. They agreed to meet over coffee before Kaylee gave him the advertised $150 fuck of his life. Before starting Westminster at College, the former Lucidly, Jay offered Kaylee a drink after arriving at his place. She said alcohol makes people first-ye- ar stupid, but she needed it, because she said fucking a guy she just met for money is also stupid. After making sure she gave him exaedy what student was struggling to find a job and a secure place to live in Salt Lake City. I took a lot of pills. I overdosed on a couple of pills. Not because I wanted to die; it was more like I just wanted to sleep for a couple of days and forget about my problems, Kaylee said. So I pur- - next 10 guys. That week, it was like four days of four guys each day. posely looked up enough to sleep for a while, and my brother freaked high as 30, with many than once. out and took me to the emergency room. And I dont remember it very well, but I was really pissed off that that happened because I have $4,000 dollars of hospital Kaylee said shes unsure of how many men shes slept with as a sex worker but estimates its as of the men returning more Tiffany Perry, a senior political science and psychology dual major, is the president of the Tipping Point, a dub that promotes awareness of human trafficking and sexual assault Based off her experiences working with trafficking victims, Perry said the trend of college students turning to sex which work to pay their tuition and other bills he wanted, Kaylee said Jay took her out to dinner and then she went home a typical day ofwork. Kaylee, who asked The Forum not to use her last name for her protection, said she toyed with the idea of becoming a sex worker for months before she ever decided to do it She would go on Tinder and ask ha matches how much they Kaylee said she was stressed about now paying tuition but wasnt too worried bills for nothing. experts call survival sex is alarming. If someone is at a point where they are selling their bodies for sex, there is something else After returning from the hospi- going on, Perry said. This isnt just something somebody is doing for fun. They have to be in a tal, Kaylee said she wanted to go to her very desperate situation and would pay for sex $50, $150, $200? I was trying to see my supply and demand, Kaylee said. 1 was taking my microeconomics expenses. However, the Financial Aid dass into my life, she added with a laugh. Kaylee said she felt like she wasnt in control her at the start of die Fall 2016 se- home, that her FAFSA didnt go through and that she owed the school more than double what she had already said. of her sexual relationships and the lines of consent were often blurred, which is why sex work originally interested her. Money wasnt the main reason, of course, but a lot of it was also my sex life at the time, Kaylee because her fi- nancial aid would cover most of the Office informed mester thought I never felt After discovering her FAFSA didnt go through, Kaylee said she wanted to escape her I was in control of whether or not we had sex because I wouldnt be able to say no, and so I problems for a few days, which landed her uninsured and in the hospitaL said. like I would sleep around a lot and classes but struggled with attendance. When I came to I couldnt go school, Kaylee I couldnt focus. I wanted to shoot myself in the face. Thats when Kaylee said she decided to become a sex worker, and she logged onto Tinder and began advertising to her matches, I couldnt tell you what the first guy looked like, Kaylee said. If I saw him in the street right in front of my free I wouldnt know, or like the thats what leads to exploitation. Han Kim, a public health professor at Westminster, said he also thinks Kaylees situation is oppressive and exploitative a less direct form of trafficking. The fret that people think its okay to purchase sex for money to me is still a form of oppression, particularly for women. Of course there are men who are trafficked as well, but its mostly women, Kim said. And the fret that there is coerdon involved, whether its a pimp that sweet talks you into becoming a commercial sex worker or being in a finandal situation where you think the only option is to be a commercial sex worker... |