Review articles about special interest groups: Difficult but rewarding

摘要

Although this year's issue of the Annual Review of Sex Research contains a relatively small number of articles, I believe the quality of these contributions will be much appreciated. All of these reviews present important understandings in relatively unexplored areas of sex research, among special groups of people, denned either by their sexual orientation or by other characteristics that set them apart from the general population. I believe writing a scholarly review on such new or under-researched topics is a multifaceted endeavor. Often the literature that can be reviewed in the chosen field of study not only is small but also comprises research of widely varying quality or single, unreplicated studies, rendering data aggregation difficult or impossible.