How Female Undergraduates Practice Prostitution Without Shame

Ladies who engage in the shameful act of campus prostitution had become so shameless and bold that they leave “their profile, photo albums and phone contacts with hotel operators near their campuses for calls whenever ‘suitors’ demand their illicit services.”

A university professor, Elizabeth Balogun, on Wednesday raised the alarm over the high incidence of prostitution among female undergraduates in the country. She said girls are now initiated into the dirty trade following their membership of cult groups like the Black Bra and Pink Ladies.

“There is no doubt that prostitution in the long run corrupts the quality of the nation’s future leaders and affects their values. Understanding that young females constitute appreciable percentage of the nation’s population, little could be expected from them productively if they had been turned into cheap sexual machines, with warped self-esteem and self-actualisation," she said.

Balogun described as disheartening the current situation where prostitution, which used to be a vocation for independent adult ladies in brothels and back alleys, had spread to tertiary institutions in the country.

According to her, the rising wave of prostitution among female undergraduates has become worrisome. She stressed that the menace now ranked higher than other social vices, including cultism on campuses of the nation’s higher institutions.

Balogun, a Biochemistry teacher at the University of Ilorin, spoke at a seminar organised by the National Association of Nigerian Students to mark the 31st anniversary of the association in Abeokuta, Ogun State.