Coronavirus: 'No customer, no food', says a sex worker in Kolkata's sonagachi.

Coronavirus: 'No customer, no food', says a sex worker in Kolkata's sonagachi.

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Kolkata's Sonagachi area is said to be the largest sexual inn in Asia. Here all day long, all night long, the anchorage of the customers continued. But now that area of North Kolkata is completely deserted, quiet. No women are waiting for sex workers on the street now.

They are now waiting for a voluntary organization to come and distribute their food.

A woman named Sima has been working in that area for over thirty years as a sex worker. He was saying over the telephone, "Can't believe what we have been through. There is not a single customer today for weeks. There is no way for them to come. There is no money to earn - two boys, grandchildren, who knows how to live with their two children!" Not me, thousands of girls are in the same situation here. "

All experts, from the World Health Organization, are advising on maintaining social distance to prevent coronavirus infection.

But Miz Border's profession is such that it is not possible to maintain social distance. But since then, they have tried to exercise some caution since the Corona infection began.

And while they are taking other supplies of dried rice and pulses from voluntary organizations, they are still seen to maintain their social distance.

Miz Seema was saying, "Since Corona started, we've been khaddar since then, what made him come out like that soap (probably meant hand sanitize), washed his hands with it and then headed home."

"Once again, I am going to wash my hands once more and then get out. And if anyone's body is bad, fever, cold and cough, then I was not letting him come home. But now he is not coming back."

Women of different sexes in the state, including the goldsmiths, have a voluntary organization of their own - the Women's Coordination Committee.

Smorjit Jana, the chief adviser of the organization, said they were able to collect some food items, which were being distributed in different areas of Sonagachi.

"One is not coming to the litter, so the employment of the sex workers has come down to zero. They themselves are in a dire situation. Besides, 5 percent of the sex workers have left one or two children to their parents outside the village," said Smurjit.

"One or two children stay with the mothers, of course. The sex workers can't afford to send the parents - so those families are in danger too."

In his words, "Some dishes are also being provided with cooked food occasionally by the clubs or any organization and the police. And we have collected rice, pulses, potatoes and onions from organizations like Ramakrishna Mission, Bharat Seva Sharam, and packet them and distribute them." So that at least one should not eat. "

The situation is even more miserable for those who are on the move or floating outside of the sexual intercourse. Almost none of them want to identify themselves.

As are the women among them, so are the transformed women, men and eunuchs.

Ranjitha Sinha, head of an organization of conversion activists, said, "From the first day we have been getting a lot of calls for help, phone calls. But we can go to a few places, Kolkata and the surrounding areas."

"In the rest of the state, the situation is dire. Transformers or converts have no separate occupation - most of them are either involved in sex or begging on the street, or involved in the ejaculation.

At a time when physical sex was not possible for many, many people were probably trying to survive in the profession through the Internet.

Although no organization has yet been able to produce statistics on how many people are practicing online sex.

With them now gaining prominence, sex workers should at least be guaranteed regular meals.