This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, subjectivities and identities.

CAMILA BASSI Lecturer in Human Geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UKDAVINA COOPER Professor of Law and Political Theory in the Law School at the University of Kent, UKZOWIE DAVY Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Health and Social Care, University of Lincoln, UKJACQUI GABB Lecturer at the Open University, UKCORIE HAMMERS Assistant Professor in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Macalester College, USABRIAN HEAPHY Head of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UKRACHEL JONES-WILD PhD candidate at Newcastle University, UKCHRISTIAN KLESSE Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKANA CRISTINA SANTOS Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Birkbeck, University of London, UKEVE SHAPIRO Assistant Professor at Westfield State University, USAELIZA STEINBOCK Lecturer in the Humanities Department at the Amsterdam University College, NetherlandsJANE WARD Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California Riverside, USAELEANOR WILKINSON graduated from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, UK

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Reflexive Sexualities and Reflexive Sociology; B.Heaphy The Affect of Methods; J.Gabb To Pass Without Hindrance: Citizenship, Community, Diversity or Death; Y.Taylor Telling Personal Stories in Academic Research Publications: Reflexivity, Intersubjectivity and Contextual Positionalities'; C.Klesse Born This Way: Congenital Heterosexuals and the Making of Heteroflexibility; J.Ward Straight Indiscretions or Queer Hypocrites: Public Negotiations of Identity and Sexual Behaviour; E.Shapiro The Romantic Imaginary: Compulsory Coupledom& Single Existence; E.Wilkinson Reimagining Families of Choice; R.Jones-Wild The Politics of Sexuality in Portugal: Confronting Tradition, Enacting Change; A.Santos Stirring it Up Again: A Politics of Difference in the New Millennium; S.Hines Erotic Care: A Queer Feminist Bathhouse and the Power of Attentive Action; D.Cooper 'Shanghai Goes West': A Story of the Development of a Commercial Gay Scene in China; C.Bassi 'Sexing Up' Bodily Aesthetics: Notes towards Theorizing Trans Sexuality; Z.Davy& E.Steinbock Past, Present and Future: Exploring the Sexual Identities of People with Learning Difficulties; R.Garbutt Index