BERLIN (Reuters) - one in three students of the University in the German capital would consider sex work as a means to finance their studies, a study by the Center for studies of Berlin said Wednesday.
Figure in Berlin, where prostitution is legal, was higher than students surveyed in Paris (29.2%) and in Kiev (18.5%), the three cities the report looked at.
The study found some 4 percent of the 3,200 students Berlin interviewed said that they had already done a form any sex work, which includes prostitution, erotic dances and performances of the Internet.
The results have surprised the authors of the study, who said that they have undertaken the study because student prostitution has often been reported, but few knew about her relationship with education policy.
"The primary motivation of students to turn to prostitution were financial incentives, namely the high salary schedules," Eva Blumenschein, one of the authors of the study and a student of 26 years at the Berlin Humboldt University, told Reuters.
Blumenschein said recent educational reforms aimed at speeding up the time of the students at the University can play a role in their search for sex work.
"It is possible that because educational reforms have increased student workload, they have less time to earn money," she said. "Coupled with higher costs of the student, in this case, student led to prostitution."
Thirty per cent of students working in the sex industry were indebted, the study found.
As compared to 18% of students who said that they would consider sex work that were indebted.
(Statement by Eric Kelsey, editing by Paul Casciato)
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