This book offers insights about both sex as work, and sex work and work that include the Continuum of SIWSQ Involvement, the Duallife Relational Paradigm and the UK whorearchy. The Continuum of SIWSQ Involvement is a framework to situate the practices of people who blend sex work and square work and a way of talking about human behaviour in this context in ways that were not seen in some research about ‘exiting’ and in some analyses of UK labour markets. Although the practices of blending sex work with other jobs exists throughout history and across cultures, ‘Duality’ is a nascent concept and needs some further development as to its value in describing contemporary populations who work this way. Furthermore, the Continuum of SIWSQ Involvement can be expanded or contracted as we learn more about the practices of duality and how the people who work this way choose to have their activities represented.

The Dual-life Relational Paradigm is represented within a rudimentary Venn diagram that describes the complex fields that contributors operate within and containing their on-and offline trans-actions and relations. There may be some diversity in how these fields overlap, and how performances and audiences are managed, and even how the Continuum of SIWSQ Involvement is situated within this paradigm. Similarly, the UK whorearchy as it unfolded for these contributors may be only a starting place, to fully understand stratification within sex industries as co-constructive and co-dependent upon the ordering and valuing of bodies in mainstream societies.

All of these contributions and themes require targeted study. The original research ‘In Plain Sight: An examination of ‘duality’, the simultaneous involvement in sex work and square work’ (2018) was exploratory in nature.1 Insights from this work can inform a more complex mixed-methods study involving a much larger sample now that there is some clarity around what themes to investigate. The lived experiences of those who live dual lives are reflective of the values and conditions that exist in mainstream society. Survival sex/forced labour, poverty, racism, sexism are all the by-products of our priorities. If we do not like what we see reflected back to us in the stories of these contributors, we do not set about destroying the mirror, we change ourselves and thus our society from within.