ABSTRACT
This chapter explains my decision to produce an ethnographic account of two non-conventional erotic dance venues. I pay particular attention to the links between my feminist and queer approach to knowledge production and the selection of research methods, and give an account of the embodied experiences of researching within ‘erotic’ leisure spaces. The chapter reflects upon how my own social positioning, and the ways that I was positioned by the research participants, shaped the data production and the conclusions about the tenor of gender relations in the erotic dance venues that I have come to.
