ABSTRACT
Studying cultural anthropology was a fortunate coincidence. Confrontations with the body and bodily experiences are a central part of ethnographic practice: no fieldwork, no participant observation, and no interview without bodies. Our physical presence in the field, the physical presence of the people we meet during fieldwork as well as the relatedness between our bodies are material realities that we cannot do away with. But of course, ethnography would not be ethnography if a problematization of this process of negating sexual bodily experience had not already taken place. The indulging ethnographer is understood and constructed as the "failed" scientist with the early on installed fear of going native at the horizon to remind us of what a "good" ethnographer should neither be nor do.
