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Tiers of gatekeepers and ethical practice: researching adolescent students and sexually explicit online material

In drawing from a recent qualitative grounded theory study which explored attitudes towards, and readings of, depictions of human sexual relationships found in online video material – including sexually explicit material – among 16- and 17-year-old students, this research note explores the encounters of the researcher with three tiers of gatekeeping and their influences on the methodology, design and execution of the research.