This is an ethnographic study aimed at analysing the maternity of sex workers in the city of Quito, a context characterised by their ethnic, cultural and economic diversity. It arises from the question raised by the combination of two widely debated female identities: the sex worker and the mother, who have historically been endowed with cultural, social and moral meanings, which would initially make them irreconcilable because of the stigma of sexual work. However, their confluence is complex and dynamic, especially in contexts characterised by structural violence, such as where the sex working mothers of this study take on the ideal of the good mother to mean their abjected motherhood.