two children i.e. 36%, and only 8% have three or more children (Appendix 2).
Besides the great percentage of those who have health insurance, i.e. 84%,
there are still sex workers who either don’t have it or are unable to legally
regulate it, i.e. 16% (Appendix 2).
Only 27% of the interviewees are social welfare users, the rest, i.e. 73%, besides
the unemployment status do not use or have no access to this right (Appendix
2).
5.2 Voluntary sex work
Exactly like every individual from the general population, sex workers have
pretty much the same everyday life. The daily chores and duties related to
children are those which have been singled out as the most common ones
throughout the course of the research:
“Well, the greatest part of my day is occupied by completing house chores like
cleaning, laundry, shopping, cooking, because I work at night.”
“Besides the daily chores and the time spent with my child, I go out with friends
for a coffee, maybe in a restaurant and then I go to work.”
“After I finish my house chores, something which almost every woman does, I
start preparing for work.”
The majority of sex workers would like to present themselves in front of
everybody else, if they were given the chance, as equally the same as any other
member of any other profession; in addition, they emphasize the honesty
with which they provide services in their profession and that apart from their
professional endeavors they are responsible individuals like any other member
from the general population.
“Well I would tell them that I am on the same level as any shop assistant, or a
waitress.”
“Sex work is a normal job like any other.”
“Well, I would say that I neither steal nor lie. I simply earn the same way they
do.”
“Sex work is a profession like any other, regardless of whether you are a teacher,
a hairdresser or a director.”
“Just like any human who has a profession and works, I too earn for a living
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