Sex for rent rises with coronavirus poverty

[Westbrook]

Curious to hear you lot's take on this


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-b...-idUSKBN22X2N7

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A growing number of landlords are asking tenants for sex in exchange for housing as coronavirus lockdowns and job cuts have left many struggling to pay their rent, housing experts said.

A survey by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) of more than 100 fair housing groups combating discrimination across the United States found that 13% had seen an increase in sexual harassment complaints during the coronavirus pandemic.

“If I did not have sex with him, he was going to put me out,” one woman facing eviction by her property manager told the NFHA in an podcast on their website. “As a single mum, I had no choice. I didn’t want to lose my housing.”

Sex for rent has come under growing scrutiny in the United States and Britain in recent years amid spiralling housing costs. Charities have highlighted a rise in online adverts offering rent-free accommodation in exchange for sexual favours.

Under the new coronavirus pandemic, millions of people worldwide have lost jobs or income as lockdowns and travel restrictions have forced many businesses to close their doors.

Authorities in North America and Europe have introduced cash benefits, rent freezes and banned evictions in a bid to protect people from homelessness.

“Folks that are really vulnerable when faced with eviction, especially during a pandemic, they are sometimes faced with impossible choices,” said Morgan Williams, general counsel for the NFHA, which protects tenants against housing discrimination.

“The predators in the housing context ... seize upon that vulnerability,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Data on the prevalence of sex for rent is scarce. With limited awareness of the issue, as well as legal ambiguities that mean victims could face prostitution charges, abuses often go unreported and unpunished, housing experts said.

A 2018 survey by the housing charity Shelter England found about 250,000 women in the country had been asked for sexual favours in place of rent in the last five years.

[The Lawspeaker]

Doesn't surprise me at all. Modern feminists always find a way: first they wanted all women to hold down jobs and compete with the men, then they wanted the state to pay for their indiscretions, then they wanted to milk men through divorce courts, then came the sugar daddies and now women will sleep with someone in order to "pay" the rent. The only thing feminism has been successful in is to turn a lot of white Western women into little more than prostitutes. And the State can screech as much as they want (it has nothing to do with female honour but with missing out on rent tax), but a lot of women will still willingly take the offer. What a world the past generation has created for the generation of their (grand)children.

[Daos777]

Lol she better be servicing the dick 5 days a week at least to earn that rent. Average rent where i live for a 2 bed is $1,500.

[Westbrook]

Same here, and I was wondering about that as well... Surely a single hook up can't be worth THAT much.

Lol she better be servicing the dick 5 days a week at least to earn that rent. Average rent where i live for a 2 bed is $1,500.

[The Lawspeaker]

Lol she better be servicing the dick 5 days a week at least to earn that rent. Average rent where i live for a 2 bed is $1,500.

This shit is getting more and more insane by the day...

[Daos777]

This shit is getting more and more insane by the day...

I am Only expecting things to get a lot worse socially and economically so none of this surprises me anymore.

[catgeorge]

Whats wrong with these women - why don't they just get married.

Unfortunately movie star looks from their girly magazines don't really exist.

[Hithaeglir]

"Kaarin Long, women’s rights attorney for The Advocates for Human Rights, a U.S.-based human rights organisation, said many sex for rent victims were already vulnerable, including sex trafficking survivors, ex-prisoners and ethnic minorities."

Cause that must be some cheap rent to be equivalent of some sex.

[TheMaestro]

I am Only expecting things to get a lot worse socially and economically so none of this surprises me anymore.

Central and eastern Europe will be like heaven in 30 years for westerners.

[Westbrook]

I didn't see that part. I'd love to hear how being an ""ethnic minority"" makes them more ""vulnerable"" than a white woman

"Kaarin Long, women’s rights attorney for The Advocates for Human Rights, a U.S.-based human rights organisation, said many sex for rent victims were already vulnerable, including sex trafficking survivors, ex-prisoners and ethnic minorities."

Cause that must be some cheap rent to be equivalent of some sex.