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Research topics involving sex, sexuality or sexual content online including pornography, are often considered sensitive or contentious. These topics can evoke strong attitudes, values, beliefs, biases, and potential prejudices from researchers themselves. As such, it is ethically imperative to identify and critically examine one's own perspectives in relation to the research on such topics to ensure transparency, acknowledge the researcher's positionality, and prioritise participant perspectives. Reflexivity offers a valuable way to sustain critical reflection and engage with one's own position and assumptions towards the topic in question. This paper offer a vulnerable exploration and reflection on the reflexive process within a collaborative group dynamic. The paper articulates a framework via a series of structured steps intended to support balanced reflexive inquiry when conducting contentious or sensitive research, offering a path forward to conducting ethical collaborative reflexive practice.
Woodley et al. (Sun,) studied this question.