ABSTRACT
This chapter puts forward a central supposition of the critical reflexive approach: that the interviewer and the participant are embodied sexual subjects and defended subjects who bring both defences and desires to interviews about sex, and that these defences and desires penetrate the interview relationship and shape the data that are produced there. Drawing on three examples from interviews, the chapter demonstrates this approach in action and builds a case for the theoretical, ethical, and methodological value of acknowledging that interviews about sex are not neutral and sterile spaces, and that they are not devoid of all sexual feeling, responses, and emotions.
