COVID-19 Lockdown Leaves Moroccan Sex Workers Without Income

No more clientele for sex workers. The oldest profession in the world is suffering the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the finding reported by the daily Assabah. A situation justified by the ban on outings for the population. Pleasures no longer count, only outings motivated by needs related to care, food or other professional activity are allowed.

The COVID-19 crisis has confined these women, who were in the habit of walking the streets to earn a living, to their homes and without resources. As a result, the streets, sidewalks and boulevards are empty. No human presence. Even the same struggle for those who worked in massage parlors whose daily earnings sometimes exceeded one thousand dirhams. Sex workers from private clubs and nightclubs are not spared either and find themselves unemployed. The virtual world is the only way to reconnect, with its limitations.

The daily newspaper wonders whether the special COVID-19 fund, as has been done for employees who found themselves without a job because of COVID-19, could not find some, albeit derisory, support for these women, since their activity also falls within the informal sector...