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RESEARCHING SEX AND SEXUALITIES RESEARCHING SEX AND SEXUALITIES Edited by Charlotte Morris, Paul Boyce, Andrea Cornwall, Hannah Frith, Laura Harvey and Yingying Huang Researching Sex and Sexualities was first published in 2018 by Zed Books Ltd, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR, UK. www.zedbooks.net Editorial copyright © Charlotte Morris, Paul Boyce, Andrea Cornwall, Hannah Frith, Laura Harvey, and Yingying Huang 2018 Copyright in this collection © Zed Books 2018 The rights of Charlotte Morris, Paul Boyce, Andrea Cornwall, Hannah Frith, Laura Harvey, and Yingying Huang to be identified as the editors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. Typeset in Plantin and Kievit by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon Index by Rohan Bolton Cover design by Kika Sroka-Miller Cover photo © Jure Ahtik / EyeEm / Getty All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of Zed Books Ltd. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-78699-320-5 hb ISBN 978-1-78699-319-9 pb ISBN 978-1-78699-321-2 pdf ISBN 978-1-78699-322-9 epub ISBN 978-1-78699-323-6 mobi This book is dedicated to Ken Plummer in recognition of the inspiration he has provided and continues to provide to so many researchers in this field and his support and contribution to our conference and this publication. CONTENTS Acknowledgements | x Foreword | xi Editorial introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Paul Boyce, Charlotte Morris and Andrea Cornwall PART ONE KNOWABILITY Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Paul Boyce 1 The insinuating body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Cara Judea Alhadeff 2 Making sense of ambiguity: theory and method. . . . . . . . . 43 Eva Cheuk-Yin Li 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Natalie Edelman 4 Sex shop stories: shifting disciplines in design research . . . . 80 Fran Carter PART TWO CREATIVE METHODOLOGIES Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Laura Harvey 5 Body mapping, stories and the sexual rights of older people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Catherine Barrett viii | contents 6 Patchworking: using creative methodologies in sex and sexualities research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Catherine Vulliamy 7 Dirty talk: on using poetry in pornography research . . . . . 136 P.J. Macleod 8 The cover version: researching sexuality through ventriloquism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 E. McGeeney, L. Robinson, R. Thomson and P. Thurschwell PART THREE NEGOTIATING RESEARCH CONTEXTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Yingying Huang 9 Hesitating at the door: youth-led research on realising sexual rights informing organisational approaches . . . . . . 181 Vicky Johnson 10 Sexuality research ‘in translation’: first-time fieldwork in Brazil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Natalie Day 11 The contingency of the contact: an interpretive re-positioning through the erotic dynamics in the field . . . 217 Alba Barbé i Serra 12 Sangli stories: researching Indian sex workers’ intimate lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Andrea Cornwall PART FOUR RESEARCHER BODIES, IDENTITIES, EXPERIENCES Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Hannah Frith 13 Rotten girl on rotten girl: Boys’ Love ‘research’ . . . . . . . . 263 Anna Madill contents | ix 14 Diary of a sex researcher: a reflexive look at conducting sexuality research in residential aged care. . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Katherine Radoslovich 15 Mum’s the word: heterosexual single mothers talking (or not) about sex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 Charlotte Morris 16 Sex and the anthropologist: from BDSM to sex education, an embodied experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 Nicoletta Landi Appendix: an interview with Ken Plummer . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Charlotte Morris About the editors and contributors | 359 Index | 367
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