Covid-19 pandemic spells bad business for sex workers as more people avoid physical contact
Friday, 13 Mar 2020 12:15 PM MYTPETALING JAYA, March 13 — Sex workers around the world are bracing themselves for tough times during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seen more than 125,000 confirmed cases and 4,600 deaths so far.
“I feel like my career as a dancer is in jeopardy as it becomes increasingly less viable to hang out in crowds, which is kind of what I do every Friday and Saturday night in order to make money,” she said. “I’m not screening my clients at the club for whether they’ve been to epidemic hotspots around the world.
The same dilemma is plaguing the sex industry in Antwerp, Belgium where Violett, an organisation offering social and medical support to sex workers, has been receiving multiple queries about health risks on the job.“Of course there should be intimacy, that’s the essence of sexual services and this can hardly be avoided.
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