More than 800 Leeds students have signed up for a casual sex website where members arrange one-off romps.
Shag at Uni advertises itself as a “space for students to get laid any night of the week and not have any of the strings attached with dating.”
Casual..the site promises no strings attached sex
The adult portal’s owner Tom Thurlow told The Tab there were 854 Leeds University students registered, with almost half of them female.
He said: “The typical user is a student who is very horny and wants to increase the amount of sex they are already getting.
“Some are people who are not having as much sex, and are quite shy for example. Everyone is looking for a shag so it’s a win-win.”
Membership, which is £5 for men and free for women, buys users the chance to message each other and make casual arrangements.
The bulk of members are students who have not posted profile photos, although there is a sprinkling of suspiciously old and nude profiles, suggesting Shag at Uni has a richer demographic than expected.
Thurlow, who set it up when visitors to sister site Date at Uni were banned for being explicit, insisted most profiles on the site were real students.
Shag at Uni spawned from the less casual Date at Uni
He said: “You get sceptics who ask if you have made robot accounts and fake women but that doesn’t happen – it’s against the law. Everyone on the site is a real person.
“I hope people will recognize this is about real people – I’m 22 and I am the person running it.”
Why has it taken straight people so long to figure out you can use the net for hooking up?
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This is a total scam. I paid the 19.99 subscriptions but I always get an auto reply back to any messages. It looks like both sender and receiver would have to be a full member before they can receive or send messages. Total scam. This means if 90% of the member aren't paying, the paid members can't do much.
I'm a Paid member trying to cancel the membership and it has been impossible so far! 10 mins on average to their "Hotline" and 10x calls later and I'm still a full paying member for a website that is full of auto-replies and fake messages from fake users probably setup by the provider. 50% of the messages from actual members are automated by the website and the member has no knowledge of the messages. Total scammmmmmm! Avoid, and shame on you Tab for reporting this scam……
I can second the above comment. It seemed really enticing at first when you read profiles, however, I received nothing but automated replies. I'm skeptical about who is real and who isn't. I'm not a bad looking guy and I received 1 reply in about 50, then when I tried to send one back it said her profile no longer existed. Coincidence or something a bit fishy? I'll let you decide.
Another thing is there stupid premium rate number in order to cancel your subscription, which they misleading say is free to call on their website. The fact that they are treating cancellations as a revenue source rings alarm bells. Also the people on the phone are probably the same that British Gas employs to rob old grannies.
No doubt that I expect complaints to grow about this website in due course, and hopefully the truth will out.
Similar experience here. I’m an Oxford student and had read articles a few months back in a number of papers that spoke of over 700 females from Oxford University basically coming out of their shell every night, via “Shag at Uni”, to arrange casual sex hook-ups. However I wasn’t surprised upon registering as a member just over a week ago to find that while there were a few hundred women in the Oxfordshire constituency, the number of university age females in Oxford itself was only two or three dozen.
And I’d hazard out of these at least about half weren’t Oxford Uni students at all, while of those registered females who actually were Oxford students (either Oxford Uni itself or Oxford Brookes), most of them had simply joined to have a nosey and see what all the fuss was about, indeed most hadn’t been active on it on quite some time, and probably weren’t full members (meaning they can’t even read any messages you sent them, never mind send any back). I reckon it’s a fair estimation that the number of female Oxford students who do use the site for regular sex I could count with the fingers of one of my hands.
This didn’t put me of too much though because, as I said, it didn’t come as any surprise. But I got lots of messages and winks from females supposedly from the Oxfordshire constituency and London which were clearly not from real people, robots or whatever, I dunno. And a lot of the profiles I believe were fake as well, like others here I also reckon set up by the provider.
I also had the same experience when trying to cancel the subscription – about 7 or 8 premium rate long calls spanning roughly 45 minutes with no response before finally getting through, upon which the woman on the other end accused me of lying and said I couldn’t have rang that many times as they were sitting there the whole time and no phones were ringing.
So yeah, basically total scam. I don’t think most young women find the idea of using a site like that to meet up for casual sex at all appealing, with the reality being the vast majority preferring sex to be within a relationship.
The nearest thing you’re gonna get on that site to a “shag at uni” is being offered the privilege by some clinically obese, sofa-bound creature in her forties of watching her perform some bizarre solo sex act on herself via webcam. I noticed many of the genuine women – the very small number of those that it seemed there actually were – described themselves on their profiles as being very overweight, and many of them had like really close-up pictures of their genitalia for their profile pictures. Very seedy and strange indeed, and a complete waste of time and money. Do yourself a favour and avoid it.
“I’m a Paid member trying to cancel the membership and it has been impossible so far! 10 mins on average to their “Hotline” and 10x calls later and I’m still a full paying member for a website that is full of auto-replies and fake messages from fake users probably setup by the provider.”
Yes, despite being angrily accused of lying when they finally decided to answer the phone and allow me to cancel my subscription – insisting, as I mentioned in the above post that they’d been sitting there the whole time I was ringing and there were definitely no attempted calls – my mobile phone unbilled usage clearly shows an amount of £11.28 taken over a period of 42 minutes and 7 calls by this sinister organisation.