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1 Mar, 2014

One in three UK strippers ‘are students paying for their education’ – The Independent

Nearly a third of women working in strip clubs are students, often from middle-class families, says a new study.

And some started stripping even before starting their courses to help pay for the “high cost of education”, according to the study published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

“The core reasons for entry into stripping by students were the high cost of higher education, the lack of availability of loans and support for vocational courses and the ability to combine stripping work with the demands of educational courses, due to the flexibility it offered,” the study said.

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