Streetwalkers to sweet talkers - Chile's sex workers shift online amid virus lockdown


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  • Wednesday, 06 May 2020

Camila Hormazabal, a 24-year-old sex worker, uses a mobile phone as she prepares herself to start an online erotic meeting with a virtual customer, in Concepcion, Chile April 7, 2020. Hormazabal reinvented herself offering sexual services online after the nightclub where she had worked was closed due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Picture taken April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Juan Gonzalez

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - When the nightclub in which she touted for business in southern Chile was shut down by the authorities as the new coronavirus spread, sex worker Camila Hormazabal was left without access to her sole source of income.

The heavily-tattooed 24-year-old had been picking up clients in the downtown bar in Concepcion for four years, making around $715 a month. Overnight, her income disappeared.

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