Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here. News National. Tweet Facebook Mail. At just 17 years old, Cameron Cox became a sex worker. What started as an easy way to pay off a university debt soon turned into a lifelong career for the former law student.
Sex workers could be found on every street corner. We negotiated a price and off we went. I went out until I made enough money to pay the rent, buy clothes and food, and have a little bit extra.
After that, I moved to Canberra but I kept coming back to Sydney. Mr Cox was an early adapter of online technology, allowing him to move his work to the computer screen. That got you a lot of little, old ladies wanting their sinks unblocked but it also got you business.
You could order in instead of having to drive to find a sex worker, bring them home and then pay to send them back. Mr Cox still has regular clientele and is the chief executive of the Sex Workers Outreach Project SWOP β a network focused on education and health promotion for sex workers.
He said street workers in Sydney were hard hit with the introduction of the lockout laws in Julie Bates was studying to be a lawyer in the s when the sex industry caught her attention.
