Home is where sex is sold
Reaching out: Outreach worker Azlini Zakaria speaking to a sex worker.
EXCLUSIVE: Sexual transmission of HIV is on the rise, and one factor contributing to this is the increase in the number of sex workers operating from home. They include transgender people and housewives, some of whom ply their trade with the consent of their husbands.
PETALING JAYA: Ti, a housewife and home-based sex worker, has reduced the number of days she works. Initially, it was a daily job. Now, it is once or twice a week because her husband has started working shifts.
Every time she entertains clients, she puts herself in harm’s way because they come to her home or she goes to theirs.
“I protect myself. I keep a knife in my purse just in case. But the men are regular customers, so I know them,” said the 29-year-old slim and tanned mother of three.
Home-based sex workers do not walk the streets or ply the trade in brothels or massage parlours.
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