Chapter
Female ejaculation as social emancipation
Coercion of the real: détournement and unrepresentability
2. Making sense of ambiguity: theory and method
Queer theory and sociology
‘Failed’ interviews and veiled silence
Reflexivity of discomfort
Conclusion: making sense of ambiguity
3. Can quantitative applied sexual health research be critical and feminist? Towards a critical social epidemiology to support targeted STI testing and contraception in primary care
Introducing myself as an applied sexual health researcher
Personal influences on research
Feminism and research as a political activity
Early research career: being inspired by MSM research to focus my research on women
Researching women with problematic drug use: becoming politicised as a researcher
Core components of a critical social epidemiology for applied sexual health research
4. Sex shop stories: shifting disciplines in design research
Part Two. Creative Methodologies
Dissemination/representation
5. Body mapping, stories and the sexual rights of older people
Methodology: critical sexuality studies
6. Patchworking: using creative methodologies in sex and sexualities research
Cultural patchworking: creative methods in researching desire, sexuality and love
The value of creative methods in sex and sexualities research
The quality of the research relationship
New entry points for difficult conversations and abstract issues
Dynamic, multi-faceted and ‘messy’ data
Situating the research: linking the personal and the cultural
7. Dirty talk: on using poetry in pornography research
‘The poetic moment’: the emergence of poetry in research
Poetic form and function in academic research
The use of poetry in sex and sexualities research
8. The cover version: researching sexuality through ventriloquism
Two projects one solution
Conceptual resources: performance, mimesis, ventriloquismand karaoke
Revealing moments within a process
Getting under the covers: lessons for sexuality research and activism
Part Three. Negotiating research contexts
9. Hesitating at the door: youth-led research on realising sexual rights informing organisational approaches
The importance of linking young people to their context
Issues confronting sex researchers in their methodologies
Interdisciplinary collaboration and conversations
10. Sexuality research ‘in translation’: first-time fieldwork in Brazil
Translating ‘cultural grammar’
11. The contingency of the contact: an interpretive re-positioning through the erotic dynamics in the field
Managing boundaries: touch, loss and shock in fieldwork
To be touched: between complicity and the impact of desire
12. Sangli stories: researching Indian sex workers’ intimate lives
Constructing a methodology
Producing representations
Part Four. Researcher bodies, identities, experiences
Being a ‘good researcher’
13. Rotten girl on rotten girl: Boys’ Love ‘research’
Rotten girl on rotten girl: Boys’ Love ‘research’
Reflections on being a BL acafan
Reflections on cultural and legal issues
Reflections on my BL fandom survey and interviews
14. Diary of a sex researcher: a reflexive look at conducting sexuality research in residential aged care
Sexuality and intimacy in care
Understanding sexuality and intimacy
Intimacy and sexuality in residential aged care
Privacy, institutional care and maintaining intimate relationships
Interviewing about intimacy and sexuality
15. Mum’s the word: heterosexual single mothers talking (or not) about sex
Silences: speaking and not speaking about sex
16. Sex and the anthropologist: from BDSM to sex education, an embodied experience
Spazio Giovani and W l’amore
Appendix. An interview with Ken Plummer
About the editors and contributors
Researching Sex and Sexualities
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