Western Europe British universities advising students how to become whores

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No, this article is not about about scientists whoring themselves to corporations metaphorically.
It's about British students becoming actual whores and their universities proactively facilitating this academia-to-porn pipeline with "toolkits" advising students how to get on OnlyFans or become an escort/stripper:

The UCU 2023 Congress have passed motion 54, which includes creating a ‘toolkit’ which ‘supports safe entry routes’ into the sex industry. The members of the UCU - University and College Union - include academics, researchers and lecturers. Since when was it within the role of a Professor to support a student’s ‘entry route’ into the sex industry? Why are academics now being paid so that they can create toolkits to help students enter an industry which is dangerous, exploitative, potentially traumatising and likely to create future problems in the workplace? What happened to safeguarding?
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When I struggled with funds at university back in the mid Noughties, I was offered advice on claiming benefits, help looking for suitable employment and access to grants and Hardship Funds, not a ‘toolkit’ to help me get set up on the then equivalent of OnlyFans. Or advice on how to get ‘work’ as a stripper, escort or porn performer.
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Sadly, this isn’t anything new, and we need to start taking a hard look at just what is going on in academia when it comes to links with the promotion of ‘sex work’ and the groups who fight to legitimise it. Leicester University came under fire in 2021 for publishing their ‘Student Sex Work’ toolkit, which advised, among other things, to not wear anything around the neck while escorting, so that punters can’t strangle you with it. The toolkit was later withdrawn, likely at least in part due to the outcry from various women’s rights groups, including Nordic Model Now who produced their own university handbook in response, which recognised the sex trade as violence against (predominantly) women and girls.
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In ‘Capitalism on Campus’ published in 2018 by Zer0 Books, researcher Ron Roberts charts how the normalising of the sex industry within academia has directly coincided with the increasing corporatisation of universities in the UK. Roberts describes this as ‘higher education’s journey into market hands and the sexual sell-off of students.’ Surely the job of a union, once the bastion of left-wing politics, should be to fight against the capitalist exploitation of the bodies of young women, not help to create ‘entry routes’ into it?

Have Universities Become Pimps? UCU Supports 'Entry Routes' into the Sex Industry

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