IS YOUR DOCTOR SELLING SEX?

Hard-up medics demand right to go on the game

MEDICAL students are demanding the right to work as HOOKERS to fund their studies.

The trainee doctors have called for the British Medical Association to work with universities to ‘recognise’ and ‘support’ students working in the sex industry.

In a motion to be debated at the BMA’s annual conference next month, the trade union’s student wing say the pandemic has ‘ forced student sex workers into more risky situations’.

Consequently, they are calling on the body to ‘lobby the General Medical Council and Medical Schools Council to ensure medical students engaging with sex work, of whatever form, to support their studies aren’t penalised for this and are safe from expulsion and professional proceedings’.

In 2012, leading medical journal the BMJ published research that found one in 10 students knew a fellow medic who had engaged in erotic dancing, prostitution or escort work to fund their course.

Some 93 per cent said they believed money was the prime motivation for it as fees, without living costs, are now £9,250 a year and the course is a minimum of five years.

The English Collective of Prostitutes said they had seen the number of students contacting them for support rise by a third in the last year.

Spokesperson Laura Watson welcomed the BMA motion, adding: “This is undoubtedly related to the costs of medical school, but also speaks to the scarcity of part-time jobs that students might, in the past, have used to supplement their income.

“Student sex workers should be supported and helped with financial alternatives, not penalised or kicked off their course.”

But BMA member Dr Angela Dixon said she would vote against it, adding: “Being a sex worker is more of an accepted thing in universities because of all the ‘ wokery’ that’s been pushing this.

“This motion seeks to normalise sex work and say this is an okay thing for women to do.

“We should not be encouraging students to get involved in sex work at all.”