Researchers are often skeptical of sexual behavior surveys: Respondents may lie or forget
details of their intimate lives, and interviewers may exercise authority in how they capture …

Accurate data on young people's sexual behaviour and sexual health practice is essential to
inform effective interventions and policy. However, little empirical evidence exists to support …

METHODS In 2009, relationship and sexual behavior data were collected from 1,750 never-
married males and females aged 16–18 via audio computer-assisted self-interviewing …

Survey methodologists typically seek to improve data on sensitive topics by standardizing
surveys and avoiding the use of human interviewers. This study uses data collected from 90 …

Bias may be introduced in survey data collection when participants answer questions
differently depending on interviewer gender. This could affect the validity of collected data …

Recent commentators have advocated the greater use of qualitative methods in sex
research. Drawing on the growing body of sex-related focus group research (including the …

Because of the privacy in which sexual behaviors are often enacted, the scientific methods
available to study these phenomena are limited relative to other topics. In the United States …

Although illegal and highly stigmatised in South Africa, the buying and selling of sex on
street corners, in brothels, in private domains or online is widespread. This reflexive …

Men from all walks of life pay for sex in various contexts every day, yet we know very little
about the ways in which men make meaning of their paid sexual encounters, particularly in …

Sexuality—here referring to a set of words and acts potentially exchangeable between a
male or female researcher and a male or female informant and involving sexualized bodies …