Under a new set of government health and safety regulations, brothels must now implement new protective measures to prevent coronavirus infections.
They require sex workers to wear masks, keep their heads a distance from customers and take on appointments of no more than 15 minutes, all measures the industry has agreed to.
However, orders to register clients' names and contact numbers, as well as to keep them in orderly lines outside brothels, have prostitutes balking, saying the measures strike at the very foundation of their service: anonymity.
"Keeping records of clients, their names and contacts may be right," Alevridou said. "It assists health authorities in tracking and tracing potential cases." Sex workers, though, she said, cannot play the role of police officers. The sex trade is a different business altogether, she said.
Cashless payments, now required, are also proving a problem.