Sex-for-rent offered by landlords - BBC News

free room available for women only conditions apply double room for naughty girl for exchange of favors female tenant needed cheap

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contact me to discuss the government says these ads are illegal but no one else seems to care I'm going undercover to meet the

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here offering free

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in exchange for sex and a vulnerable woman who experienced the riskier end of these arrangements, one guy turned his back on me to meet him but then also talked about having group sex with many of his friends, since many got a It's a bit of a dangerous fight, why isn't anything being done about it?

I've worked on many powerful homeless stories recently and know how difficult it is to live a normal life when you don't have a safe place to call home. I thought I'd seen the worst of the housing crisis, but last year I heard about a new trend that I found most alarming: sex for rent. Over the past six months, I've seen dozens of local ads on Craigslist, some of them subtly worded. So rent might be free for the right student, but others undoubtedly drop a double room in exchange for their loot. A simple and uncomplicated business agreement.

I want to talk to the guys posting these ads, but when I contact them as a journalist, they don't respond. I go incognito, most ask for a photo, so it's time to get into character. I've already responded to a few adverse reactions and the responses have been very revealing, so one owner here told me to expect sex a couple of times. one week and the other says that he has a great sexual desire, he is very adventurous and has no limits and he also hoped that you would give yourself to him now, that makes me feel very strange and I am doing this as a journalist.

I can't begin to imagine what it must feel like to be doing this for real. Yes, of course, it's gone, there's no going back. Now I'm scratched. I wear a wig, to be honest, so they wanted to take a photo of me. As I actually see myself trying on the wig at home it's one thing, it suddenly feels very different on the way to my first meeting with the owner of his team. I already know that Tom is 60 years old and has a bed on the outskirts of Bristol, he has already sent me over 50 emails, including a photo, interested in arranging a meeting.

The messages are soft, but he clearly already feels very familiar and goes straight to kiss me. I know part of the deal is sharing your bed, but I want to find out what else is going to wait when you say and like if I don't feel ready to do that right away, then something else would be necessary, like something um, so I just came back from a meeting with the owner and yes, it really was like I didn't have an intense experience. I guess that's how I describe it and even talking about the idea of ​​doing it made me feel so uncomfortable.

It was not a very pleasant experience. I wasn't very nice at all and I just The only thing I keep thinking about is how these people who do this for real must feel. One of them is Laura, 22, from Bristol, after a family breakdown left her homeless, she entered into a sex rental agreement when she was 19. Laura is not her real self. name and she asked us not to show her face you were living off her with friends you were couch surfing yeah and then you ended up getting into this sex for rent deal how did that come about?

I stumbled upon Craigslist. I went to Londres. and he just, yeah, he had a little cabin outside, there was like a living room, but we had my own arrangement that was like a written sign, so a couple of times a week he gives me alcohol, drugs, removes the weather and then we would have to appear together and that was kind of like the agreement instead of money, how did that make you feel? Looking back, it's a little disturbing, but at the time I just didn't care. I didn't really care what was going on and when you returned to Bristol did you consider being sex for a deal?

Yes, I put up some posts. Everyone I talked to seemed a little dangerous. A guy I hoped would like to cheat. him, but then he also talked about having group sex, it was as if many of his friends saw him having a somewhat dangerous cycle. All this sex for a deal is relatively new and seems to have gotten a lot bigger in recent years. Why do you think that is for young people? It's hard for me because it's hard to get a job and even looking at house shares is a lot of money, especially if you work minimum wage, but you're not going to do it.

They can afford to live. Do you think the owners are taking advantage? I think so, they are using the fact that some young girls are vulnerable, they use it against them, so our

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who do this are breaking the law, we have asked the Ministry of The judge who told us to offer accommodation in exchange for Sex is illegal and those who do it can face up to seven years in prison. I met the next owner in a pub in Swindon, according to his advert. I could tell he's in his forties and is with a designer.

Accommodation is

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and this time I would even get my own room, there would be no rent or bills, just a FWB relationship, we have exchanged the dozen messages, nothing dubious, but he tells me he has done this before and clearly got his way. However, this time it wasn't a kiss, when I asked him for a small glass of wine, he very generously returns with a large one after the chase, it turns out that the Ministry of Justice says that simply placing an advertisement is illegal, but we have consulted with the police, who don't do it.

I am not aware of any prosecutions, so it has not been tested in court and an attorney with experience in this area does not believe it is an open and shut case. I'm not sure it encourages prostitution. I think it's a gray area and I suspect the Crown Prosecution Service and the police are very keen to deal with this because there is no clarity on whether historically they could receive prosecutions when I say historically two years later when a tenant has moved, they come up and say, well, actually I had to do it. having sex with him I really had no choice because he threatened me with eviction if I didn't sleep with him, we

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both of our landlords the opportunity to be interviewed or give us a statement.

Tom was not interested in purchasing properly. Nice to meet you, bye Mike says he now lives abroad, he told us that he was posing as a landlord and that he is actually a writer and a feminist and that he placed his ad to research his novel on the subject of the exploitation of women, says. that I was the only person to respond we look forward to reading your book Mike we really do what would be your advice to anyone who might be considering making one of these arrangements for someone not just to save a little money it's dangerous it's stressful it makes you nervous it isolates you yes you need words like just get by and pay the rent just do it or like if you like humiliate yourself a little and apologize and family or friends just do it it's not worth it for that's like stress