Above: 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.
Mos, 26, was a moneyboy a sex worker at a gay bar in the Thai tourist hub of Pattaya. For him, it was a dream come true. Now the pandemic has put his dream on hold.
Mos grew up in a poor province on Thailand s northeastern border, eating fish from the river and leaves foraged from the forest. He wanted to eat pork and pizza.
Allison Joyce for NPR
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Above: 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
Mos, 26, was a moneyboy a sex worker at a gay bar in the Thai tourist hub of Pattaya. For him, it was a dream come true. Now the pandemic has put his dream on hold.
Mos grew up in a poor province on Thailand s northeastern border, eating fish from the river and leaves foraged from the forest. He wanted to eat pork and pizza.