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“I’m glad it went viral”: How social media is changing sex work for Filipinos

“Shame cannot feed my father,” said Rico, one of the over a million Filipinos who find their livelihood through sex work. 

Sex work is not only illegal in the eyes of the law in the Phillipines, but also in the eyes of the general public.

A long walk off a short pier

How does one find presence in a race? I’ve seen where a lack of awareness, of the self, of those around you, of the world, can get someone. Someone so desperate to confirm their own worldview, their fears, that they cannot truly see those they profess to love. Lonely and old, in a cave, babbling to themselves in a language only they speak, only they care about. If that. 

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