ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a discussion of the insider/outsider debate and the use of reflexivity. After some methodological considerations, it introduces the research location. The chapter focuses on the "inside/out" position and its articulations with the research process, especially when research is concerned with sexual representations and practices. The insider/outsider position of the researcher has been much discussed in sociological literature. The chapter considers key axes of similarity and difference between the researcher and participants, particularly in terms of space, time, gender and sexual orientation, and describes how this affects the interview process and wider aspects of research in the field of sexualities, arguing that the research process is a dynamic and dialectic interrelationship. It considers the social context of the interview as important and specifically acknowledges the implications of the relationship between researcher and interviewee in the data produced in the interview context.
