The 'COVID-19' coronavirus pandemic has exposed the reality what people are experiencing in many countries: poverty, insecurity and inequality.
The crisis has forced many companies around the world to lay off their employees to keep their budget strict. As a result, many people are unemployed.
And because of lockdowns that are imposed in many regions and countries, things aren't looking good for them, as they cannot easily find new job elsewhere.
Students also felt the same way, as they were given diminishing financial support from their parents due to the worsening economy.
Because of this, many of them started turning to sex work.
According to Sky News, the percentage of people considering sex or adult work in a "cash crisis" era in 2020, has nearly doubled compared with 2019.
Because of restriction, people cannot really meet face-to-face like they usually could. The same goes to those people who want to become sex workers.
Afraid of contacting the deadly disease, their choice is to work through the web.
Some women who have been interviewed, said that they turned to online sex work through subscription websites.
According to them, this kind of work on the web in the pandemic is "safer", and can make them "financially easier". The women that were "struggling" financially before turning to online sex work, described their job as "performing and modelling".
In the UK where the survey was conducted, the women said that they can earn hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pounds a month.
While some of the women enjoyed their newly found job, the rest said that "for the extremely impoverished there isn't always a choice".
The statistics that were given by UK's student money website Save the Student! to Sky News showed that 10% of people would consider sex work in a financial emergency.
The figure was up from 6% in its 2019 Student Money Survey.
In a separate study, it was found that 7% of people said they had actually turned to sex or adult work during the pandemic. Some 77% were female and 22% male, with 1% preferring not to say.
