Comments on: Academic Prostitution http://loveofhistory.com/academic-prostitution/ A historical perspective of current events Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:54:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Alisha Mellow http://loveofhistory.com/academic-prostitution/#comment-77 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:52:07 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-77 I totally agree, I’m working on my flexibility, but hope the university might take a more flexible stance on fourth years before it comes to that!

]]> By: constantinakatsari http://loveofhistory.com/academic-prostitution/#comment-76 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:19:08 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-76 Why should somebody be attractive? I thought that prostitutes catered for all tastes. And tastes can be so different!

]]> By: Manolis http://loveofhistory.com/academic-prostitution/#comment-75 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:26:32 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-75 I can imagine the benefits. But this is a solution that is suitable only for certain people. For unattractive PhD students malnutrition is the only option.

]]> By: constantinakatsari http://loveofhistory.com/academic-prostitution/#comment-74 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:22:16 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-74 Terrence, I am sure that ancient historians have some hidden qualities and they may well cater for a certain type of customers. But you are right that we should not entirely rely on those. Maybe we can persuade research councils to change their policies and allow researchers to lead fulfilling and healthy lives.

]]> By: Terrence Lockyer http://loveofhistory.com/academic-prostitution/#comment-73 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:02:14 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-73 Golly – I do hope that Belle’s variety of employment does not become accepted as an alternative funding model, as I’m not sure many of us who have laboured through university education would have all that much earning potential.

On a more serious note, there is anecdotal evidence of sex work as a response of students here in South Africa to a combination of the financial demands of education and the usual imperatives of the aspirational in an intensely materialistic society; though I’m not sure if anyone has done serious work on it. Given the legal, medical, social, and future employment risks, it’s more than a little worrying.

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