An overheated housing market such as some suburbs in Auckland has seen another red flag.
According to Northern Star, women are offering sex-for-rent deal in exchange for accommodation. An investigation has found that arrangement of this nature are being executed by landlord and hostel owners, offering young women through online ads to men looking to share one bedroom apartments. Many social agencies have already rescued a significant number of women from deals like these. However, it is being suspected that these "sex-for-rent" is only a front for bigger underlying problem, according to one university student.
The Weekend Herald, while conducting its own investigation over the past week, used a fake email account to contact five men who have recently placed ads on Craigslist, offering free rent to young women in New Zealand. All five men responded in a few hours. Alarmingly, one of the men indicated that he doesn't expect sex to happen on the first night because he said, as quoted by the publication, "as ud need to get used to me."
Moving further with the test, two Herald reporters have agreed to see the man in the downtown apartment who was seeking a young woman to "have some real fun." That man reportedly works for a large multi-national firm and claims that he had received four calls from interested parties after posting the ad last month. He even gave a Herald reporter a tour around his apartment and said that a "young international student was currently sharing his king-sized bed" and he showed them her suitcase that was on the floor, adding that he and the student are having "consensual" sex. The student just recently arrived New Zealand.
The man, whose identity was kept anonymous by Herald, said, "Sex is something which should be with the consent of both people. I never want anyone to use it as a payment, though I would love to go for this with a nice person. No one forces nothing on each other."
The police are already investigating similar cases in Auckland.