Abstract

We thank the commentator for his thoughtful response (Schneeberger, 2015) to our study entitled, “Explaining Mental Health Disparities for Non-monosexual Women: Abuse History and Risky Sex, or the Burdens of Non-disclosure?” (Persson et al., 2014) To summarize, Schneeberger (2015) highlights three aspects of our methodological approach: (1) how the participants were grouped; (2) how sexual orientation was evaluated; and (3) how a history of childhood abuse was assessed. We will reflect on these three issues while further considering future research directions in the study of female sexual orientation and childhood abuse.