Being a Sex Worker During a Pandemic

In a CBC article written on the 25th, Julia Peterson underlines a serious dilemma sex workers have to go through during COVID-19. Their jobs, which necessities close contact with their customers, put them at high risk of contracting the virus. Many of them have children and choose to stop working for their family’s safety, resulted in a steep loss of income. Melody, one of the sex worker Peterson interviewed, was eligible for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), which she commented: “I was really blessed and fortunate that I did not have to work as an escort through the…