A well known Belgian sex worker, known as Hot Marijke, has gone to court to ask for a ban on sex work until there is a vaccine against the coronavirus.
Many sex workers have been working again since the start of June, but Hot Marijke, a Belgian sex worker who received a lot of media attention for her activities and initiatives, stated that she will not resume her activities yet.
“It is irresponsible that these professions, which have the closest contact between people from all professions in the world, should be allowed to restart without being safe to do so,” she said.
If Hot Marijke wins the case before the Council of State, that could mean sex work would (temporarily) be banned in Belgium. “Then, you get a real health problem, because then there will be people who do sex work to be able to survive,” said Bauwens.