sex trade

Above: N., a sex worker at a bar in Pattaya, Thailand. The sex trade has offered good-paying jobs for many people from rural areas who were facing a life of tending rice paddies and digging up cassava roots.

Health & Safety

How The Pandemic Has Upended The Lives Of Thailand's Sex Workers

12:56pm February 03, 2021

Many of them left rural areas to earn their living in the sex trade and send money home to help their families. COVID-19 restrictions have changed all that.