U.K. university creates protections for 'student sex workers'

In December, the University of Leicester unveiled the Student Sex Work Policy, a list of directives that school administrators will impose on students and staff to mitigate the “social stigma directed at sex workers.”

The guidelines, which created a new protected class of students at the University of Leicester, will, college officials said, “ensure that any students who are sex workers are positively supported” by the university.

The campus-wide protections for student sex workers come at a time when the number of British students reporting to have engaged in prostitution to pay their bills has doubled.

While prostitution is not legal at the federal level in the United States, some American cities, such as Washington, D.C., have begun taking steps to decriminalize sex work. Vice President Kamala Harris, as a presidential candidate in 2019, was asked whether she believes the U.S. should decriminalize sex work. She responded by stating, "I think so, I do."

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