STUDENTS TOLD ‘HOW TO BE A SEX WORKER’

Fury over ‘hookers’ stand at university M16 SPY USED A NOVEL WAY

A UNIVERSITY sparked fury after a stand at its freshers’ fair appeared to advise students on how to become hookers.

Alongside recruitment stalls for the hockey team and human rights watchdog Amnesty International was one run by the Sex Workers’ Outreach Project Sussex, known as Swop.

It calls itself an advocacy and advice service “representing student sex workers”.

The group tweeted: “One in six students do sex work or think about turning to sex work. We can help.”

It publishes leaflets offering tips on how to be a prostitute. The leaflets offer advice on techniques for

“safer escorting”, including: “If you don’t have anyone to look out for you, fake it! Make it look like you are confirming your arrival... put men’s shoes out.”

The stand at Brighton

University offered free condoms and lubricant.

Preying

When A-level results were announced in August, the group tweeted: “Look out for us at Freshers’ fairs for advice around #studentlife and #sexwork.”

In a tweet, the group defended its appearance at the fair. The message said: “Rising living and tuition costs mean that more students than ever are turning to sex work and Swop believe that they deserve our help as well.”

It said it did not idealise or encourage sex work and only offered advice.

But feminist activist Sarah Ditum said: “This is essentially a grooming operation, pitching prostitution as a manageable, desirable lifestyle, equivalent to joining the rowing club.

“It is preying on the naivety of young students.”

Tomi Ibukun, president of the university’s Students’ Union which ran the fair, said the group was there to raise awareness of the support they provide. POISONED spy Sergei Skripal sent coded messages to his MI6 handlers in invisible ink hidden in the pages of novels.

The double agent who survived being dosed with Novichok fed information to Britain from Russian intelligence agencies, claims BBC journalist Mark Urban in his book The Skripal Files.

The spook became disillusioned with bosses after the fall of the Soviet Union and started working LEARNING CURVE: ‘Sex worker’ stand at uni, inset for the British. His late wife Liudmila is said to have passed a book to his MI6 handler while she and daughter Yulia were on holiday in Alicante, Spain, in 1997. When the handler returned to the UK, he found secrets written in invisible ink.

Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov are accused of the attack, but Russian authorities have denied their involvement.