Sex Work & Study‪.‬

This article draws on empirical research into the lives of forty young women students working in the Melbourne sex industry. It reveals how students are funding their tertiary education under more difficult financial conditions than ever before. The article suggests that while the government continues to implement 'user pay' reforms to the education system, young people will continue to enter both the formal and informal labour market, including the sex industry, to get an education. Further, the article reveals how students working in the sex industry challenge perceptions of their work as marginal, or 'outside the INTRODUCTION