ABSTRACT
Sex and sexuality skirt the line for many people between taboo and causal leisure, creating a push-pull where sexual activity is both pleasurable and socially acceptable but simultaneously sequestered from public discussion and discourse. The same is true for sex within academic research, where sex is more often addressed in medicalized and/or problematized ways than it is as a natural, pleasurable, recreational or leisure practice worthy of research. Given the breadth of the field, there are numerous entryways for scholars of sex and leisure to integrate critical sexuality studies into their social justice-oriented research practice. Many Pride parades explicitly exclude police officers in uniform from attending, but few Pride organizing committees do the labor to address the concerns and lived experiences of the community in its entirety. Duggan defines homonormativity within the sphere of domestic leisure and consumption. Within leisure studies, there is a long history of sex and leisure, which situates sex as a core aspect of leisure.
