Connie Mathe never considered herself a sex worker until a new friend pointed it out. She was 19, a single mother of two struggling to make ends meet and dating a married man who rented an apartment for her in an affluent Cape Town suburb.  The friend, a sex worker herself, told Mathe: "That's not a boyfriend, that's sex work. He only comes to have sex with you, bring you food and pay the rent." Mathe tells DW she had tried working in retail, hospitality and in a call center, but it was never