{"id":38707,"date":"2022-11-21T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=38707"},"modified":"2022-11-21T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:57:55","slug":"they-will-buy-me-a-meal-for-my-children-why-sa-women-turned-to-sex-work-to-survive-the-covid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/21\/they-will-buy-me-a-meal-for-my-children-why-sa-women-turned-to-sex-work-to-survive-the-covid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They will buy me a meal for my children\u2019: Why SA women turned to sex work to survive the COVID pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24349\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sex-workers-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sex-workers-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sex-workers-770x481.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sex-workers-500x313.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sex-workers-360x225.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sex-workers.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple of months into the COVID lockdown in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/southafrica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Africa<\/a>, Dimakatso, 25, resorted to sleeping with an older, married man for R1 000. <a href=\"https:\/\/bhekisisa.org\/features\/2022-11-21-they-will-buy-me-a-meal-for-my-children-why-sa-women-turned-to-sex-work-to-survive-the-covid-pandemic\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A couple of months into the COVID lockdown in South Africa, Dimakatso, 25, resorted to sleeping with an older, married man for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hiv-2"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ugandan-Sex-workers.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38708,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38707\/revisions\/38708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}