Website shagatuni.com (launched by 23-year-old Tom Thurlow) which helps students meet up for casual sex, has been blasted for encouraging lecturers to ‘hook up’ with their students.
Over 2000 students signed up per day in the months following the sites launch in 2012.
In a statement on shagatuni.com, the website boasted: ‘We recently polled 1,773 of our members and over half of them (54 per cent) admitted to having been sexually attracted to their lecturer.’
‘And of these horny students, three fifths (61 per cent) confessed to indulging in "flirtatious behaviour" with the lecturer in question.’
'To put it simply, there are students in vast numbers who want to get it on with the person who stands in front of the blackboard... It could be a power thing or perhaps they just prefer someone with experience in the bedroom?’
The statement continued: 'At ShagAtUni we're extremely accommodating and we see no good reason why not to encourage student and lecturer relations.'
Lecturers are now being encouraged to join the site through offers of free membership. As a result, the site has been accused of ‘encouraging lecturers to abuse their positions of power.’
A 20-year-old student from Cheltenham says she doesn’t agree with what the site is endorsing.
‘I don't agree with what Shag At Uni is doing. Personally, I think there should be a line between teachers and students.’
She added: 'It's creepy. Lecturers shouldn't be trawling the internet looking for students for sex.’
Do you think this is an inappropriate abuse of power or harmless fun?