Why young, homeless women are sleeping with strangers

A new advert from Centrepoint, a charity helping homeless younger people, hits tough through showing the scary measures women are resorting to which will have a bed for the night time – through having undesirable sex.

The minute-long clip shows a female sat on a bench next to a bag full of her belongings, swiping thru a dating app until she receives a fit. Despite it being quite clear that she's not interested, the man or woman of Hanna goes at the side of Liam's pushy advances once he confirms he has his personal place. She has the same opinion to satisfy Liam for intercourse, with a view to have a roof over her head for the night.

While it is clean to observe an advert like this and think 'God, how awful', earlier than going again to browsing the 'New In' segment on ASOS, for lots young ladies throughout the us of a this is their inescapable truth. Centrepoint record that 26% of ladies without a fixed deal with have had undesirable intercourse to spend a night time off the streets (while fellow housing support charity Shelter estimate this determine to be slightly higher at 28%).

In truth, on this month's difficulty of Cosmopolitan I truly met a vivid and beautiful young girl called Natalie, 30, who's alas doing exactly that. After losing her task as a beautician, Natalie published an ad on Craigslist saying she become determined at no cost accommodation – and became flooded with loads of emails by means of 'landlords' providing her an area to mention, in change for 'grownup a laugh'.

I also had the displeasure of assembly in person one of the many gross guys out there who've adverts of their own indexed inside the apartment segment of Craigslist, appealing for a 'pretty, open-minded young girl' to live with them freed from charge.

Needless to say, what observed was unnerving...

You can study the overall story inside the March issue of Cosmopolitan, on-sale now, and support Centrepoint by texting SWIPE to 70111 to present a £3 donation.