OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sex Research is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Transactional Desire: Exploring Male Student Sex Workers in China	66
“It’s Almost Boring When It Should Be Enjoyable and Fun”: College Students’ Definitions of Bad Sex	56
Relational and Trait Factors Mediate the Associations between Women’s Intoxication-Related Unwanted Sexual Experiences, Pleasure, and Desire	44
Delphi Recommendations for Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexual Interest in Children in Non-Mandated Community Settings	36
Closing the Gender Gap? A Cohort Comparison of Adolescent Responses to and Attitudes Toward Pornography, 2004 vs. 2021	35
BDSM in North America, Europe, and Oceania: A Large-Scale International Survey Gauging BDSM Interests and Activities	27
Exploring Parent-gender Differences in Parent and Adolescent Reports of the Frequency, Quality, and Content of Their Sexual Health Communication	23
Elevated Psychiatric Risk in Same-Sex Married Individuals: Large-scale Evidence is Consistent with a Substantial Role of Familial Common Causes	22
A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Women’s Experiences of Internalized Sociocultural Sexual Pressure	21
Feasibility of a Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy Intervention for Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder	21
Sexual Consent, Alcohol Use, and Greek Membership: Testing Measurement Invariance and Group Mean Differences of Two Sexual Consent Measures	21
Resisting Trans Medicalization: Body Satisfaction and Social Contextual Factors as Predictors of Sexual Experiences among Trans Feminine and Nonbinary Individuals	21
“We’re Not Trained … and We’re the First Point of Contact”: The Emotional Overtime of Faculty Responding to Student Disclosures of Sexual Assault	20
Longitudinal Assessment of Sexual Behavior and Relationship Quality During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Britain: Findings from a Longitudinal Population Survey (Natsal-COVID)	20
Do Sex Toys Make Me Satisfied? The Use of Sex Toys in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, and the UK	19
Preliminary Prevalence Estimates of Sexual Exploitation as Measured by the Sexual Experiences Survey-Victimization (SES-V) in a National US Sample	19
Identity and Relational Factors Associated with Sexual Role and Positioning for Anal Sex among Colombian Sexual Minority Men	19
Gender Scripts and Female Sexual Functioning: The Role of Sexual Pressure and Sexual Subjectivity	18
Why College Women and Men Refrain from Sex Despite Desire: Development of the No Sex Despite Desire (NSDD) Measure	18
Religiosity, Sex Frequency, and Sexual Satisfaction in Britain: Evidence from the Third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal)	15
Stability and Change in Asexuality: Relationship Between Sexual/Romantic Attraction and Sexual Desire	14
Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder and Problematic Pornography Use in Cisgender Sexual Minority Individuals: The Associations with Minority Stress, Social Support, and Sexualized Drug Use	14
Women Who Experience More Affectionate Touch Report Better Body Satisfaction and Relationship Outcomes	14
Patterns of Genital and Subjective Sexual Arousal in Cisgender Asexual Men	14
Sexual Passion in Adolescence: Examining Its Transmission Through Mothers	14

The Link Between Sexual Disagreements and Separation Proneness: Differences Between Men and Women in a Culturally Diverse Sample	13
Definitions of Having Sex in Older Men and Women and Their Relationship with Sexual Well-Being	13
Which Came First, the Money or the Sex? Bidirectional, Indirect Associations between Financial Management Behaviors and Sexual Satisfaction among Newlywed Couples	13
Pornography Use, Offense-Supportive Cognitions, Atypical Sexual Interests, and Sexual Offending against Children	12
Moral Reactions to Sexual Relationships that Violate Age Norms	12
Examining Attentional Biases Elicited by Sexual Stimuli Using MouseView.js: An Online Paradigm to Mimic Eye Movements	12
Asking About “Prostitution”, “Sex Work” and “Transactional Sex”: Question Wording and Attitudes Toward Trading Sexual Services	12
What do States Recommend We Teach Adolescents about Sexual Consent? A Content Analysis of K-12 Health Education Standards in the US	12
The Role of Sexual and Romantic Attraction in Human Mate Preferences	12
The Question of Moral Worth in a Controversial Market: Moral Justification Regimes and Boundary Work Among Israeli Men Who Pay for Sex Abroad	12
Understanding Refusals, Using Coercion: Young Men’s Understanding and Use of Normalized Sexualized Violence within Heterosex	11
Construction and Validation of a Scale to Assess Social Judgments Toward Sex Work from the Stereotype Content Model	11
Psychometric Properties of the Sexual Services Acts Materials for Pay (SSAMP) Index: Identifying the Virtual, In-Person, and Material Sex Trades for Financial Compensation	11
Preference for Self-Resembling Male Faces in Gay Men in China	11
Comparing Perception of Sexual Intent and the Use of Sexual Coercion in Men and Women College Students	10
The Association between the Quantity and Severity of Pornography Use: A Meta-analysis	10
Attraction Toward One’s Partner is Associated with Sexual Desire, Satisfaction, and Distress Among Couples Coping with Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder	10
Adolescent Barriers to Sexual Communication with Their Parents: Differences by Sexual and Gender Identity	10
Exploring the Orgasm Gap Across Racial/Ethnic Groups: A Descriptive Analysis	10
An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Women’s Experiences of Authenticity in Pornography	10
The Pattern of Physique Preferences on Gay Dating App “Blued” in China: A Multiple Group Latent Class Analysis	10
Top, Bottom, and Versatile Orientations among Adolescent Sexual Minority Men	10
Family Matters: The Impact of Traditional and Egalitarian Gender Role Messages on Sexual and Gender Minority Latinx Adults’ Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk	10
Concordance and Discordance between Paraphilic Interests and Behaviors: A Follow-Up Study	9
Feeling Like a Fetish: Racialized Feelings, Fetishization, and the Contours of Sexual Racism on Gay Dating Apps	9
Constructing Sexual Victimization: A Thematic Analysis of Reader Responses to A Literary Female-on-Male Rape Story on Goodreads	9
Partner Knowledge of Solitary Pornography Use: Daily and Longitudinal Associations with Relationship Quality	9
An Exploratory Study of Incels’ Dating App Experiences, Mental Health, and Relational Well-Being	9
Validation of a Brief Internalized Sex-work Stigma Scale among Female Sex Workers in Kenya	9
A Systematic Review of Black American Same-Sex Couples Research: Laying the Groundwork for Culturally-Specific Research and Interventions	9
Confounds, Causality, and Sexual Orientation: The Implications of a Population-Level Study of Sibling Characteristics and Same-Sex Attraction	9
Monosexism as an Additional Dimension of Minority Stress Affecting Mental Health among Bisexual and Pansexual Individuals in Hong Kong: The Role of Gender and Sexual Identity Integration	9
Our Body Our Health (Jirkeena, Caafimaadkeena): Somali Women’s Narratives on Sexual Health	9
Fairer Sex: The Role of Relationship Equity in Female Sexual Desire	9
Men’s Sexual Interest in Feminine Trans Individuals across Cultures	9
Examination of Sex-Related Distress and Self-Medication Drinking Model in U.S. College Women	9
The Impact of Pleasure and Pain on Frequent Substance Use During Receptive Anal Intercourse	9
Context Matters: Moderating Effects in the Associations between Pornography Use, Perceived Addiction, and Relationship Well-being	9
“OMG, Yes!”: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an Online Intervention for Female Sexual Pleasure	9
Navigating Women’s Low Desire: Sexual Growth and Destiny Beliefs and Couples’ Well-Being	9
Associations between New Mothers’ Partner-Oriented Sexual Values and Sexual Distress in the Transition to Parenthood	9
Religiosity, Perceived Effects of Pornography Use on Personal Sex Life, and Moral Incongruence: Insights from the German Health and Sexuality Survey (GeSiD)	8
Conceptualizing Consent: Cross-national and Temporal Representations of Sexual Consent in Young Africans’ Creative Narratives on HIV	8
What to Expect When You’re Expecting: Perinatal Sexual Education Is Linked with Couples’ Sexual Well-Being in Pregnancy and the Postpartum	8
Sexual Shame and Emotion Dysregulation: Key Roles in the Association between Internalized Homonegativity and Sexual Compulsivity	8
Health Disparities by Sexual Orientation: Implications of Genetic and Environmental Explanations	8
Hormonal Underpinnings of the Variation in Sexual Desire, Arousal and Activity Throughout the Menstrual Cycle – A Multifaceted Approach	8
Perceived Mate Scarcity Leads to Increased Willingness to Mate Poach	8
Queering Hookup Motives in a Diverse Sample of LGBTQ+ Young Adults	8
Socioeconomics and Erotic Inequity: A Theoretical Overview and Narrative Review of Associations Between Poverty, Socioeconomic Conditions, and Sexual Wellbeing	8

Locating the Risk: Using Participatory Mapping to Contextualize Perceived HIV Risk across Geography and Social Networks among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Deep South	7
Commentary on “Same-Sex Marriage and Common Mental Health Diagnoses: A Sibling Comparison and Adoption Approach”	7
Feasibility Cues during a Sexual Encounter Impact the Strength of Heterosexual Women’s Orgasm Goal Pursuit	7
Large Language Models in an App: Conducting a Qualitative Synthetic Data Analysis of How Snapchat’s “My AI” Responds to Questions About Sexual Consent, Sexual Refusals, Sexual Assault, and Sexting	7
Self-Disgust and Sexual Functioning: A Scenario-Based Study Testing the Ability of Sex-Related Experiences to Elicit Self-Directed Disgust	7
Associations Between Contents of Pornography and Sexual Satisfaction and Function Among Young Adults	7
Interpersonal, Community, and Institutional Influences on Sexual Consent Among Fraternity and Sorority Students in the Context of a Hookup: A Qualitative Analysis	7
Put Me in Your Shoes: Does Perspective-Taking Inoculate Against the Appeal of Alternative Partners?	7
The Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence Against Adolescents in School and Community Settings: A Scoping Review	7
The Sexual Rights of Others: Majoritized Women’s Support for Marginalized Women’s Sexual Rights	7
Reclaiming Pleasure: Does Satisfying Consensual Sexual Activity Predict Next-Day Positive Affect Among Women with a History of Sexual Assault?	7
Recalled Childhood Separation Anxiety Differs by Anal Sex Role among Gay Men	7
Clickable Consent: How Men Who Have Sex with Men Understand and Practice Sexual Consent on Dating Apps and in Person	7
Rules (And the Lack of Rules) About Pornography Use Among Heterosexual Couples	7
A Vignette Study Analyzing Contextual Factors that Influence Emerging Adults’ Definitions of Virginity Loss in German-Speaking Countries	6
“For Me, It’s Having Something Meaningful”: Women’s Emotional Understandings of Sex and the Sexual Acceptability of Contraception	6
“I’m Better Than This”: A Qualitative Analysis of the Turning Points Leading to Exiting Inceldom	6
Body Image and Sex: A Dyadic Examination of Body Esteem and Sexual Inhibition, Obsession, and Harmony	6
New Year, New Initiatives for the Journal of Sex Research	6
Let’s Talk about Sleep Baby: Sexual Activity Postpartum and Its Links with Room Sharing, Parent Sleep, and Objectively Measured Infant Sleep and Parent Nighttime Crib Visits	6
Is the Grass Really Greener? The Influence of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation on Mate Copying Behaviors	6
Annual Review of Sex Research 2022: Editor’s Introduction	6
A Rapid Review of Sexual Pleasure in First Sexual Experience(s)	6
The Role of Men’s Sexual Beliefs on Sexual Function/Dysfunction: A Systematic Review	6
Editor’s Introduction	6
Deconstructing “Sexual Deviance”: Identifying and Empirically Examining Assumptions about “Deviant” Sexual Fantasy in the DSM	6
Irrelevancies and Inaccuracies Miss the Target: A Response to Kingsberg et al.	6
Eating Disorders and Sexual Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Body Image Self-consciousness during Physical Intimacy and Dissociation	6
“I Can Tell You Wanna F***”: A Content Analysis of Sexual Communication in Popular Song Lyrics	6
Dominants, Submissives, and Bottom-up Text Analysis: Exploring BDSM Roles Through Romantic and Erotic Narratives	6
Navigating Conflicting Ideals of Masculinity: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Male Partners of Women with Vulvodynia	6
Attitudes toward Mothers as Sexual Beings (ATMSB): Scale Development and Associations with Satisfaction and Desire among Parents with Young Children	6
U.S. Adults’ Attitudes toward Gay Individuals’ Civil Liberties, Moral Judgments of Homosexuality, Support for Same-sex Marriage, and Pornography Consumption, Revisited	6
Questionnaire for Turn-on Initiation Preference: Development and Initial Reliability and Validation	6
The Relationship Between Topic-Specific Quality of Parent–Child Sexual Communication and Measures of Sexual Self-Concept and Sexual Subjectivity	5
I’m Sexy and I Know it: Exploring the Moderating Role of Sexual Motivations in the Relationship Between Sexual Self-Esteem and Sexual Functioning in Israeli Adults	5
Adolescents’ Self Perceptions: Connecting Psychosocial Competencies to the Sexual Self-Concept	5
A Theory-Based Intervention to Reduce Risk and Vulnerability Factors of Sexual Aggression Perpetration and Victimization in German University Students	5
From Fantasy to Reality: Self-Reported Aggression-Related Sexual Fantasies Predict Sexually Sadistic Behavior beyond Indirect and Direct Measures of Sexual Preference	5
Bisexual People Experience Worse Health Outcomes in England: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Survey in Primary Care	5
Hot for Robots! Sexual Arousal Increases Willingness to Have Sex with Robots	5
Romantic Attachment, Sex Motives and Sexual Difficulties in Emerging Adults: The Role of Childhood Interpersonal Victimization	5
A Psychometric Study of a Trait and State Assessment of Sexual Pleasure – The Amsterdam Sexual Pleasure Inventory	5
How EIRD Is Sex Research?: A Commentary and Reanalysis of Klein et al. (2021)	5
Public Stigmatizing Reactions Toward Nonoffending Pedophilic Individuals Seeking to Relieve Sexual Arousal	5
Regulatory Focus and Sexual Health: Motives for Security and Pleasure in Sexuality are Associated with Distinct Protective Behaviors	5
Orgasm Consistency in Mixed-Gender Couples: Actor, Partner, and Discrepancy Effects from Dyadic Response Surface Analysis	5
Pornography Use and Mental Health Problems in the Chinese Population: Examining the Pornography Problems Due to Moral Incongruence Model	5
An Agent-Based Model of Sex and Sexual Orientation Differences in Short-Term Mating Behaviors as a Result of Mating Preferences	5
Critical Consciousness and Sex Positivity: Opinions on Race Play within Alternate Sexuality Communities	5
Exploring Reflections, Motivations, and Experiential Outcomes of First Same-Sex/Gender Sexual Experiences among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Individuals	5
A Qualitative Account of Coping Following Non-Consensual Sexual Experiences among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men	5
Clients’ Perceptions of Authentic Intimate Connection on Erotic Webcam Modeling Sites	5
Recruiting and Engaging Heterosexual-Identified Men Who have Sex with Men: A Brief Report of Considerations for Sex Researchers	5
How Much Pornography Use Do Americans Think Is “Average” for a Man and Woman? Findings from a National Survey	5