From the Tokyo Summer Olympics to sex work in college, here are this week’s top college student insights.
Tokyo Olympics
After being delayed a year, the Summer Olympics will kick off in Tokyo next month. But a Japanese survey released in May found that 83% of people in Japan do not want Tokyo to hold the Olympics. A new College Pulse survey of 670 undergraduates finds that American college students have a different view, with a majority (58%) saying the Tokyo Summer Olympics should happen this year. However, college Republicans are more likely than college Democrats to agree that the games should go on (81% vs. 45%).
Sex Work in College
Surveys show that the average LGBTQ student loan borrower has more debt than their straight peers. And a recent College Pulse survey of 600 undergraduates finds that almost 1 in 10 (8%) LGBTQ students have done some type of sex work to help pay for school. By comparison, 2% of straight students and 4% of students overall say the same.
What’s more, one-third (34%) of students overall say they would work as a stripper if they knew they would make $100,000 a year, and 36% say they might. Similarly, a February survey about OnlyFans found that roughly 3 in 10 (31%) students said they would pose nude on the platform for a six-figure paycheck, and another 31% said they might.
But students on financial aid and LGBTQ students are more likely than their peers to say they would work as a stripper. More than one-third (36%) of students on financial aid say they would work as a stripper, compared to 1 in 5 (20%) students not on financial aid. Nearly half (49%) of LGBTQ students say the same, compared to roughly one-quarter of (27%) straight students.
“I’ve already been considering it,” a Western Oregon University student says. “Student loans are a b****.”
A new Texas law prohibits the employment of anyone under the age of 21 at sexually oriented businesses, including strip clubs. Almost half (48%) of college students agree that it should be illegal to work as a stripper before you’re 21, but LGBTQ students are less likely than straight students to agree (40% vs. 51%).
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Methodology: All surveys were designed and conducted by College Pulse. Interviews were conducted among a sample of full-time and part-time students attending colleges or universities in the U.S. who are part of College Pulse’s American College Student Panel.
