With this study we wanted to explore an alternative approach to youth sexuality; we wanted to break free from the problematization of youth sexuality in general, and of ethnic youth and their sexual practices in particular. This problematization of ethnic youth and their sexual practices is found in public debate about the sexualization of society, where ethnic youth are often presented as sexually ‘at risk’ or as ‘a risk’ to native Dutch youth, mainly girls. But it is also found in Dutch national and international research; in socio-medical research about risk behaviors and risk factors, and in research about sexual violence.