ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I discuss sex work and higher education. I begin by providing an overview and synthesis of some of the extant research on college-student sex workers including motivations, and unpacking of those motivations based on the stories shared by college students. Further, I offer some connections on how the backgrounds and experiences of some college students can, at times, facilitate their pathways to sex work, particularly for sex workers of color and queer sex workers. I discuss the changing landscape of higher-education cost and its necessary centering in the current discourse as an important policy issue. I share information on one of the largest digital/online platforms for sugaring (college students serving as “sugar-babies”), about the number of college students engaged in this work through their services, and end the chapter by offering what the Sex Work on Campus study collaborators add to existing knowledge.
