An estimated 300,000 sex workers are left jobless after Thailand imposed a nationwide curfew. FMTNews Thailand
Sex workers stand in a largely shut-down red light area in Bangkok last month.
That has left an estimated 300,000 sex workers out of a job, pressing some onto the streets where the risks are sharpened by the pandemic. Many of Bangkok’s sex workers had jobs in the relative safety of bars, working for tips and willing to go home with customers.Others like Pim went to work the streets.
Her friend Alice, another transgender sex worker, has also been forced to move from a go-go bar to the roadside.“But when businesses shut down my income stopped too. We are doing this because we’re poor. If we can’t pay our hotel they will kick us out.”The occasional tourist loiters near clusters of sex workers, before a furtive negotiation and a quick march to a nearby hotel, one of the few still open on Bangkok’s main tourist drag.
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