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Dixon pointed to a study of about 300 British university students, in which 10 percent reported knowing a student who had worked as a prostitute or escort in 2010. That’s up from about 6 percent in 2006, and 4 percent in 2000, Dixon said, a rise that coincided with an increase in college tuition fees.

“With escalating debts, students in the United Kingdom may view prostitution as an easy way to get rich quick,” Dixon wrote in her article, published today (Feb. 28) in journal Student BMJ.

Some consider prostitution their only choice for paying for their education, “which I think is awful; I think it’s a shame,” Dixon said, though she said she can understand why people would arrive at that conclusion.