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one’s own blind spots and biases regarding queer sexuality in the field. There is a great need for methodological volumes like Researching Sex and Sexualities to help develop this emerging field of study in sociology. For example, the sexualities section of the ASA has seen tremendous growth since its formation in 1997 (according to its website, the section now has almost 500 members, half of whom are graduate students), but it has long been a marginalized field of study in the discipline, which has left many novice researchers with minimal mentoring, training, and support. There simply aren’t enough advanced scholars to mentor the significant number of novice scholars entering the field. Researching Sex and Sexualities provides real talk about sexualities research, including the stigma associated with it, the challenges of getting research participants to disclose about such a silenced topic, and the embodied aspect of sexuality and the researcher. It’s a practical guide to help researchers think of new and creative ways to approach sexualities research in a reflexive manner, across cultures. Its greatest strength lies in the way it puts the sex back into sexualities research, in particular by centering the researcher and their own erotic experience in the process. Researching Sex and Sexualities is largely about qualitative research; therefore, it may not be useful to quantitative researchers uninterested in mixed methods. Likely because of the way it accounts for sexualities research across disciplines—contributors include sociologists, anthropologists, historians, cultural and gender studies experts, activists, practitioners, and more—I found it to be esoteric in places. Rather than letting this be a deterrent, though, readers should seek out the parts of the book most useful to their own discipline and area of study. As a methodology volume, its biggest shortcoming is a lack of discussion of the intricacies of managing human subjects research and institutional review boards, arguably one of the key obstacles sexualities scholars face in their research process. Finally, it must be acknowledged that Researching Sex and Sexualities is an affectionate tribute to the pioneering work of sexualities scholar Kenneth Plummer. All of the editors and many of the contributors engage Plummer’s foundational theorizing on sexualities in their accounts, and the book ends with an interview with Plummer by Charlotte Morris. Scholars who count Plummer as one of their foundational academic influences will appreciate the way this collection of essays demonstrates the profound impact he has had on our field.