ABSTRACT
People do not just appear magically at interviews to tell their sexual stories; they arrive to tell them. This chapter demonstrates how reflecting on participants’ motivations for participating in the study provided insights into, and often mirrored, their motivations for paying for sex. It discusses participants’ motivations for participating in the research across three themes: the interviews as an opportunity to confess, the interview as an opportunity for jouissance or libidinal excitement, and the interview as a space to feel heard and emotionally attended to. Each of these themes are linked to their motivations for paying for sex, highlighting how methodological questions can be theoretically generative.
