Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 “You can’t make a living doing porn”: Laith
- 2 “I am the same me in bookings as I am out”: Sage
- 3 “I was an escort on a bike”: Kora
- 4 “Maybe it will be good for British girls because less Europeans coming into the industry”: Darcy
- 5 “I was outed in one of the tabloid newspapers”: Anonymous
- 6 “They are both shitty jobs … because I’m not free”: Sierra
- 7 “Don’t judge us as different from you”: Wyatt
- Postscript
- Notes
- References
- Index
2 - “I am the same me in bookings as I am out”: Sage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 “You can’t make a living doing porn”: Laith
- 2 “I am the same me in bookings as I am out”: Sage
- 3 “I was an escort on a bike”: Kora
- 4 “Maybe it will be good for British girls because less Europeans coming into the industry”: Darcy
- 5 “I was outed in one of the tabloid newspapers”: Anonymous
- 6 “They are both shitty jobs … because I’m not free”: Sierra
- 7 “Don’t judge us as different from you”: Wyatt
- Postscript
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
The Continuum of SIWSQ Involvement provides a framework for situating contributors’ working lives into distinct yet overlapping labour markets; however, contributors must engage in these diverse fields in ways expected of them while concealing the information about them detrimental to respective environments. The focus of this chapter is sharing the intricacies of moving between jobs for contributors and comprehending them through identity (re)formation as it relates to role transition and ‘rituals of movement’ (Ashforth et al, 2000). We will be touching on impression management and stigma avoidance as important elements involved in successful role transitions (these techniques will be discussed in more depth in Chapter 5). The chapter ends with commentary from contributors about managing duality and role transition while working from home.
Identifying with (sex) work
Several contributors identified with both jobs as expressions of who they are, and some resisted the idea that they ought to identify with work at all, and even challenged the line of questioning. Juno explains her feelings about both jobs:
‘I enjoy my job as a [public sector professional] don't get me wrong but you have to be very square very boring you know, Angel Gabriel all the time … Escorting, you know what I can be a little bit crazy and a little bit unconventional and wear some crazy clothes and it's fine and I like that … I do like both of my jobs it's just unfortunate people won't accept that I can do both and be like a safe person as a [public sector professional] and as an escort.’
Joy does not identify with sex work:
‘I identify the most with the real me which is my job as a [private sector professional] … in the beginning of sex work it felt almost surreal being this other person answering to a name that's not your own, so I don't actually identify with the sex work at all. I am a sex worker, but I’ve had very very little opportunity to talk to … or to engage with other sex workers other than on forums and websites like [omitted]. So, because I’m not, it's just something I do principally for the finance for the money, but I don't identify with, that must sound pretty bisarre.’
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- Work, Money and DualityTrading Sex as a Side Hustle, pp. 55 - 70Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2021