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‘Glory holes’ guidance around safe sex during pandemic not a joke, says sex worker
glory holes” — prompting laughs on social media.‘Glory hole’ is a colloquial term used for a wall with a hole cut in it, to facilitate sexual contact between partners without direct physical contact.But one of the people who helped write those guidelines says it’s not a joke, especially for sex workers.“Because we’re addressing it in an adult manner in association to the pandemic of people dying, getting sick and getting ill, we don’t see the big joke,” sex workers’ advocate Velvet Steele told Global News.“People are so offended about it but then again it’s always just the people who are so nervous to talk about sex.”Steele, who also works as a sex worker, said the guidelines were written as a way to help sex workers who have been excluded