Student Services

Student needs of money and become a prostitute is not just common in Chinese and Korean students, but French students as well.

A 2010 French movie Mes chères études or translated as Student Services tells the story of Laura (Déborah François) desperately wants to do well in University. She works part-time but cannot make ends meet. Out of options, she responds to personal ad of 57 year old Joe (Alain Cauchi), who is willing to pay 100 euros an hour for "tender moments". Laura promises herself it will only happen once, but three days later, she is in a hotel room with Joe and the spiral begins.

Mes chères études (My expensive studies in English) is a 2008 autobiographical book by an anonymous author known as "Laura D.", who is a modern language student at a Paris university.The book has drawn national attention in France with its controversial contents, in which the author claimed that she had to go into prostitution to financially support her studies.