The ethical constraints that govern human research assume that research involving questions of sexuality is sensitive terrain and must be navigated with caution. Ethical review boards are already nervous about researcher/researched intimacies, but field relationships mediated through the lens of sexuality are made all the more ethically volatile when situated within an adult-researcher/youth-researched context. Sexual (sub)cultures1 and youthful sexualities conjure all manner of ideas about riskiness and vulnerability that bespeak the dangers of intimate research/ researched relations. This situation can be complicated further when we add a sexually diverse ‘insider’ (see Taylor, 2011) researcher to this already messy terrain.