JASMINE pushes her pile of textbooks to the side, takes off her clothes, turns on her webcam and begins writhing in front of the camera.

The 22-year-old university student - who is studying to become a paramedic - is among an estimated one in 20 UK students turning to sex work to fund their courses, as fees and rents soar and loans fail to cover the cost of living.

8 Jasmine performs for clients on Babe Station

8 Jasmine worked as a pole-dancer and web-cam girl to cover the cost of her paramedic degree Credit: Knickerbockerglory

To help with her £9,000-a-year student debt, Jasmine, from Worcester, works as a cam girl and an exotic dancer - and she tells Sun Online in an exclusive interview that she can rake in up to £1000 a night.

She also earns around £2 a minute from her sex webcam work, which she does via a website where men pay her to perform specific sexual requests on a private live stream.

8 Exotic dancer Jasmine is also a part time model and often poses nude or topless Credit: Supplied

The dancer tells her story in Channel 5’s Student Sex Workers, which airs tonight, and also features Carly Rae and best mate Roo, who resorted to making lesbian porn and selling it online to make ends meet.

And while business is booming for all the women, Jasmine's lucrative sideline has landed her in hot water with her tutors, who chucked her out when they caught wind of what she was doing.

Students can often find themselves thrown off courses for taking on sex work as most universities have a student code of conduct making behaviour which brings the institution into ‘disrepute’ a disciplinary offence.

'I can earn £1000 if they want a private dance'

Jasmine uses web-cam site Babe Station to find clients, and invites users to watch her "play" in a live feed.

This is her chance to advertise herself for free, before men will request a private feed which they have to pay for.

When someone pays for her, the site makes a “kerching” sound, and Jasmine will begin talking to the client over a private chat.

8 Jasmine on a modelling shoot in the show Credit: Supplied

As the "clients" watch, Jasmine slowly cavorts in front of the camera, bending over to show her rear in revealing lace knickers and slowly removing her bra, while moaning seductively.

In the show, one man asks her to show him her bum, before asking if she'd accept anal sex.

While Jasmine makes it clear she isn't turned on in the slightest, she plays up to his fantasy in the hope of keeping him on the line for longer.

8 Jasmine advertises for a sugar daddy to spoil her and help her fund a boob job

But the webcam work is just one stream of income for Jasmine.

While other students work behind a bar or in part time retail, Jasmine also models naked and dances in strip clubs.

She tells the Sun Online: “I can go to work in the gentlemen’s clubs and make £200 or I can make a grand. It depends whether you have a customer who wants to spend the extra money.

“For the extra they get a naked dance, a private dance, but there’s a strict no touching rule.”

She adds: “I can’t pay my rent on minimum wage.”

'I need a sugar daddy for my boob job fund'

Jasmine is also seen posting an advert for a sugar daddy to fund her lifestyle.

The ad, posted on a specialist dating website, invites potential suitors to “spoil her” with “beauty treatments, help with car bills and rent money."

She also asks for money for a boob job and a monthly allowance.

“I know a lot of students who are sugar babies and having a uni student as a sugar baby makes sense,” says Jasmine. “You’re not going to want to have dinner with someone who can’t hold a conversation.”

Female students dating sugar daddies is also on the up - last year 75,000 students registered as sugar babies on just one website – a 30 per cent increase on the year before.

8 Jasmine at glamour modelling assignment

While many would struggle to reveal their student job to their family, Jasmine says her mum is her “best friend” and knows all her secrets.

“She’s less keen on the nude modelling than the dancing but the web-camming she doesn’t mind because it’s in a private chat room so I’m safe,” she says.

“My mum just wants me to be happy and she knows I’m happy working for myself. This is the happiest I’ve been in a long time.”

On the show her mum, a personal trainer, is seen telling her daughter: “I’m glad you have found something you like doing.

8 The wannabe paramedic wanted to pay for her degree with dancing and modelling Credit: Supplied

“You’re my little girl and I’m proud of you.”

However, the university were less impressed.

Despite Jasmine telling faculty heads about her sideline from day one, Jasmine was shocked to be told in her second year that she had been reported by a member of the ambulance service, who disapproved of her dancing in strip clubs.

"It all kicked off and they acted like the course heads claimed they didn't know about it, even though I'd told them," Jasmine claims.

The university asked Jasmine, to take a leave of absence and launched a “year long investigation”.

Disillusioned and angry, after months of waiting to hear if she could return, Jasmine quit the course.

The sex work has also affected relationships in the past.

“I have always told people up front what I do for a living and some people are fine with it but, as soon as you have an argument, it becomes an issue,” says Jasmine. “I haven’t had a relationship for over a year now.”



'I make lesbian porn with my best mate to pay my fees'

For fashion student Carly Rae, the sex industry wasn’t the first port of call for extra income to supplement her student loan.

But after applying for hundreds of retail and bar jobs and being refused, the desperate Manchester university student turned to making porn to make ends meet.

“I was introduced to the adult industry by a complete stranger on a dating website,” she says. “He sent me a message saying, ‘Have you ever thought about going into the adult industry?’

“I was 19, in uni, running out of money and I had made video clips before for random boys and I thought, ‘D’you know what, I could make some money out of this.’”

Carly Rae started out making money from solo webcam work but, after researching porn sites online and getting together with her pal Roo, the pair began shooting lesbian porn movies in the comfort of their own homes and selling them online.

8 Roo sets the scene for her latest porn shoot with Carly Rae Credit: Knickerbockerglory

“You do live close to the breadline when you’re at uni,” she says.

“I’m sure I could have survived but it gave me that little bit of comfort, and luxury that you miss out on as a student.”

While Roo – a creative writing student – dropped out to pursue the sex work full time, Carly Rae said it was important to her to finish her degree.

Now 25, the pair run their own business and Carly Rae was recently nominated for a best female performer award at annual UK Adult Producers (UKAP) Awards.

Fashion student Carly Rae tells Student Sex Workers she turned to porn to fund degree

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“I set myself a guideline each year for how much I want to earn,” she says.

“This year I want to earn £30k. It’s not a lot of money but I’m 25 years old, I’m self-employed and I’ve got my own business.

“I’m proud of my job, I think I’ve done a lot of things and achieved a lot.”

Student Sex Workers airs on Channel 5 tonight at 10pm