Support WBURHow The Pandemic Has Upended The Lives Of Thailand's Sex WorkersAurora AmendralPhotos by Allison JoyceFebruary 03, 2021 ShareAbove: N., a sex worker at a bar in Pattaya, Thailand. The sex trade has offered good-paying jobs for many people from rural areas who were facing a life of tending rice paddies and digging up cassava roots. (Allison Joyce for NPR)