Sex workers use tech to beat pandemic blues
(WorldNews India)

BENGALURU: Mallika (31), who also has the street name Rani, has had a regular spot near the Majestic bus terminal for the past six years. She would ply her trade with travellers and locals and used her earnings to feed her two children. But the Covid crisis and lockdown left her out of work and penniless. She`s one of the many commercial sex workers who lost their livelihood due to the pandemic after social distancing and avoiding physical contact became a norm. Well-paid, English-speaking sex workers made the shift to remote technology early during the lockdown. Conventional...