However, I am unsure of whether Sri Lanka is ready to fully legalise the profession, but we need to start somewhere, and repealing the Vagrants Ordinance would be a good way to.
This is not an option for many sex workers in Sri Lanka, according to Perera, as only a handful have the resources and are technologically savvy enough to sustain such an enterprise.
The police intelligence unit says that the business had been cleverly organised by using several websites and mobile phones which have been used for monetary transactions.
Similarly, health authorities will make sex workers part of the official response to novel coronavirus to educate the community, but once the threat of the virus has subsided, the fate of the sex workers will remain the same.