Sexualities

Papers
(The median citation count of Sexualities is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Leather nostalgia: Constructed histories of Dutch leathermen through national discourses of tolerance and white innocence37
Disabled content creators on OnlyFans: Empowerment, representation, and precarity33
Vexed in the city: Femme Failure in the World of Carrie Bradshaw and theLong-Winded Lady31
Navigating desire: Sexual practices of left-behind spouses in Northern Ghana20
Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China19
The campus and the closet: Novel expressions of interwar queerness at the University of Oxford18
“Switch it up”: A qualitative analysis of BDSM switches18
Ken Plummer: What it is to be human15
Situating queerness in Filipino experience: The bakla, the parlor, and the paglaladlad15
Grindr? it’s a “Blackmailer’s goldmine”! The weaponization of queer data publics Amid the US–China trade conflict12
“On a eu chaud”: Digital resistance and community solidarity during the 2024 anti-Woubi crisis in Côte d’Ivoire12
Analysing intersex rights narratives in Spain12
‘It’s a generational thing, really’. Understandings of sexual rights in a digital age12
The definitional creep: Payment processing and the moral ordering of sexual content11
Human rights and affective diplomacy: The presence and strategies of foreign embassies in LGBTQ rights activism in Japan11
Space, affect and contagious bodies: Representing HIV in 1990s Czech cinema11
Book Review: Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media cárdenasmicha, Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media, Duke University Press: Durham and London, 2022; 224 pp.; 26.910
Controlling the narrative, examining the self: The unruly femme subjectivity of Fleabag10
Book Review: Gender, Sexuality and the UN’s SDGs: A Multidisciplinary Approach DaltonDrewSmithAngela, (eds), Gender, Sexuality and the UN’s SDGs: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cham: Palgrave, (2023); 10
The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan10
Book Review: Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century Alyson Spurgas,  Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century9
Sexual politics and knowledge production9
Quantifying sex. Sex-tracking apps and users’ practices9
On reproductive straightening: Pronatalism, privatization, and queer kin in South Korea9
Nonrecognition as violence: The stakes of abolitionist agendas and the invisibilization of sexual labor in Chile9
Mozambican “tolerance” toward homosexuality: Lusotropicalist myth and homonationalism8
The Sexual Politics of hookup culture: A Black feminist intervention8
Navigating layered and dual-sourced stigmatization: Experiences of asexuality using stigma management strategies8
Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study8
Book Review: Midwifery & Sexuality: Why do midwives need a deeper understanding? GeuensSamPolona MivšekAnaGianottenWoet L. Midwifery & Sexuality: Why do midwives need a deeper understanding?Sw7
“Too weak to fight, too scared to scream”: Understanding experiences of sexual coercion of Black female adolescents through digital storytelling7
Book Review: Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the GenZ Era ReynoldsRachel R.PajéDaciaMedinaSiennaGiganteJohn (eds.) (2025) Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the GenZ Era. London: Routledg7
‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project7
“Any cosmo girl would’ve known”: Collaboration, feminine knowledge, and Femme theory in Legally Blonde7
Cum together: Sexual interaction, sexual sharing, and sex education in Suck magazine, 1969-19747
Book Review: Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions7
Forming brown commons through queer joy in butiki/baboy: A pride conversation series7
Sexual Datafication7
Bye bye romance, welcome reputation: An analysis of the digital enclosure of dating6
Heteronormative silences and queer resistance in queer people’s experiences of eldercare and home6
Using the stigma engagement strategy in interviews with men who pay for sex6
Beyond ‘just say no’: Safe Uncertainty and rethinking responses to image-based sexual abuse among young people6
Corrigendum to “Introduction: Queer immunities/immunologies, queer virology”6
Love, Simon and failure: Challenging normative discourses and femmephobia in gay youth representations6
Aromanticism, asexuality, and relationship (non-)formation: How a-spec singles challenge romantic norms and reimagine family life6
Sexuality and sexual violence: A qualitative study exploring the perspectives of sexuality educators and sexual violence professionals6
Fighting bisexual erasure with a double-edged sword: Experiences of successful and unsuccessful bisexual visibilities6
Storytelling, sociology and sexuality: Ken Plummer’s humanist narrative analysis5
Exploring research gaps and future trajectories in Queer diaspora studies5
‘Synced as a couple’: Responsibility, control and connection in accounts of using wireless sex devices during heterosex5
Queer life beyond major cities: Cross-platform digital practices among lesbian women in non-metropolitan China5
“Oops, I didn’t know we couldn’t talk about sex”: Sex researchers talking back to the erotophobic academy using the researcher’s erotic subjectivitiesGuest editorial themed section ‘the researcher’s e5
Platformized production of homonationalism: An ethnography of queer media production in China5
Bold resistance: Developing tenets of femme analysis for an era of popular feminism5
Coming of ace: Visualizing asexual adulthood in teen TV5
Discrimination and normalization as an effortful social practice: An analysis of LGBTQ+ families in Germany5
Clothed, blurred, exposed: Visual privacy and Filipino male sexual labour on X (Twitter)5
Between queer sexualities and migrant heteronormative familialism: Chinese rural-to-urban male migrant workers surviving economic precarity and cultural norms5
Acceptance and rejection: Brothers’ and sisters’ responses to sex work disclosure in Poland5
Corrigendum to “Digital intimacies: Queer men and smartphones in times of crisis: A roundtable discussion”5
Trans feminism as an outsider within the neoliberal university: On trans feminism's relation to institutionalized gender and queer studies and the instrumentalization of Blackness5
Changing norms of older men’s sexuality in the sexological discourse during Czechoslovak socialism: Dementia as an interpretative lens to make sense of sexual expressions in later life5
Trans women’s status in contemporary Iran: Misrecognition and the cultural politics of aberu5
Book Reviews Mahmud and Ayaz (2024) by R. Raj Rao: Review of Queerness, State Violence, and Historical Revisionism Raj Rao R. Mahmud and Ayaz , India: Sp5
“Were in this together” - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants: Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality5
Stepping off the ‘relationship escalator’. A spatial perspective on residential arrangements of consensually non-monogamous parents5
Queer mountains: Migrant drag performers reimagining sexual citizenship in Germany5
Book review: What do we know about the effects of pornography after fifty years of academic research?by Alan McKee et al. McKeeAlanLitsouKaterinaByronPaulInghamRoger, What Do We Know About the Effects5
“We definitely need to be less gay”: Questions of language, queer (in)security, and sustainability for the Gay Games Hong Kong5
“We are in a very precarious position”: Exploring the resilience of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan4
Erratum to “Editorial by Rebecca Saunders: Sexual Datafication”4
Hierarchies in heterosexuality: Orgasms, intercourse and sexual scripts4
Weak chemsex as cultural scripts: Understanding how Chinese gay men narrate sexualised drug use4
A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments4
Erotic capabilities: A feminist analysis of sexual justice and pleasure in heterosexual sex partying4
Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires4
We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT+ rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda4
Young women’s sexual agency, relationality, and vulnerability: The Israeli case study of “attacking”4
“It’s hard to know what we should be doing”: LGBTQ+ students’ library privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic4
“Porn is blunt […] I had way more LGBTQ+ friendly education through porn”: The experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals with online pornography4
Book Reviews: AIDS & Representation: Queering Portraiture During the AIDS Crisis in America JohnstoneFiona, AIDS & Representation: Queering Portraiture During the AIDS Crisis in America, Londo4
Male homosexual identities under transformation: Revisiting a Mexican community4
Editorial on Ken Plummer3
“It definitely was consensual, but…”: Normative tensions about gendered heterosexuality and young women’s mixed feelings about sex3
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture3
Book Review: Sexuality and the rise of China: The post-1990s Gay generation in Hong Kong KongTravis SK, Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainlan3
‘Send Nudes?’: Teens’ perspectives of education around sexting, an argument for a balanced approach3
Gender, Islam and sexuality in contemporary Indonesia ArnezMonikaBudiantaMelani, Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia, 2024, Singapore: Springer, XVII+220 pp., £44.99 hardcover, ISBN:3
Aging out: Place and sexuality3
South-South transnational movement building: Changing Faces, Changing Spaces in Africa3
Both because of and in spite of: Towards the reclamation of queercrip joy3
“A very risky queer thing to do”: In conversation with Ken Plummer3
The Elle Woods effect: Being “girled” while reclaiming girliness3
The intersection of queer theory and transgender sexuality: Why new conceptualisations are needed3
Book Review: Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising FlorêncioJoãoRosenfeldLiz. Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising. New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers University Press. 2025; pp, 166, $28.95 pb., $753
Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art of Helen Chadwick3
Introduction: Queer immunities/immunologies, queer virology3
Gender, sexuality and race: An intersectional analysis of racial consumption and exclusion in Birmingham’s gay village3
Introduction to the special issue “Mobilising queer joy: Establishing queer joy studies”3
Dirty work, emotion work and safety work. Experiencing rape threats as a feminist researcher3
Ken Plummer’s contributions to the study of sexualities and beyond3
Queer kinship: Experiences of double-motherhood in Brazil3
Viral Sensibilities: A Conversation with Tim Dean3
More like a woman: Activa/Pasiva subjectivities in Cuba3
A vaccine for everyone? Biosexual citizenship, LGBTQ+ health and sexual practice in HPV vaccination policy-settings for “high-risk groups”3
Managing intimacy: How sex workers negotiate boundaries on webcam platforms3
“Defend your children, they can be taken by two gay men”: A scoping review of the conflating and diversionary discourses used in same-sex marriage debates3
Book Review: Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living2
Dissident performances of black queer & trans desire in Zimbabwe2
Ken Plummer: My Intellectual Enlightenment2
Hypercategorization and hypersexualization: How webcam platforms organize performers and performances2
Gendered machines in film and television: How ‘post-’ femininities and masculinities challenge the gender binary2
Queering political representation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and opportunities in an LGBTI+ South-South/North-South network2
Erotic habitus and collapsed masculinity in male-dominated spaces: The case of the no Fap relapse spaces2
Becoming aware of your gender and sexual identity: Narrative experiences, intersecting identities, and healthcare implications2
(Trans)formative discomfort: What can a queer darkroom do to unsettle affective gender inequalities?2
Homonationalism across borders. Exploring cross-border exchange and strategic homonationalism in the construction of progressive nationalism2
More bottoms than tops? Mediated sexual roles and masculinity assemblage in Chinese gay communities2
K-pop Fandom’s affective role in shaping knowledge of gender and sexuality among LGBTQ+ fans in Australia and the Philippines2
Book Reviews: Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire Winter HanC., Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire 2
Book Review: Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry JonesAngela, Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry. New York: New York University Press, New York, 20202
Transgender HIV activism in Eastern Europe and Central Asia2
What’s identity got to do with it? The social life of sexual identity in the Netherlands2
Domesticity and the construction of intimacy: Producing the erotic body and self within ‘the love nest’2
Vanilla normies and fellow pervs: Boundary work on sexual platforms2
‘For us it’s our life!’ – Queer utopian imaginaries in times of pandemic2
The ‘good gay’ versus chemsex: The articulation of a homonormative response2
Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children2
‘Eko; Eko; Azarak’: Witchcraft, medieval gibberish and queer untranslatability in High Magic’s Aid2
LGBTQ radical activism in the Lebanese Revolution2
Exploring the uncomfortable topic of women who engage in child sexual abuse material offenses: How are they represented in the media?2
Staging dyke cruising encounters in 1980s and 1990s London2
Queer aesthetics and Confucian legacy in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong, novel, 2019) and “Goodbye Mother” (Trinh Dinh Le Minh, movie, 20192
Corrigendum to “Viral Sensibilities: A Conversation with Tim Dean”2
Through the sounds of Liniker: The portrayal of desire by a black Brazilian queer artist2
Book Review: Everyday Violence: The Public Harassment of Women and LGBTQ People2
The Black pill pipeline: A process-tracing analysis of the Incel’s continuum of violent radicalization1
Cruising homotopia: Radical pragmatism, critical presentism, and the PFLAG China Rainbow Cruise1
Book Review: Producing the acceptable sex worker Easterbrook-Smith, G. Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker: An Analysis of Media Representations. Germany: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022. 211
Scandinavian design . The continuous closet and queer refugees in Denmark1
Homo narrans : A transdisciplinary reading of Ken Plummer’s narrative sociology1
Book Review: Queering law and order: LGBTQ communities and the criminal justice system1
Creating ‘relational leeway’ for implicit activism: Taiwanese lesbians’ coming out experiences and identity management within families1
Book Review: Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private1
The politics of everyday life as a sex worker: “Affect”, stigma and resistance1
The aesthetic labour of polycystic ovarian syndrome: The strife of heteronormative standards and the possibilities of queering1
Women engaging with huangwen: Women-oriented huangwen as an intimate counterpublic sphere1
The unspeakable queerness in Romania’s communist period: Lesbian and queer accounts beyond gay men’s experiences1
Sexual wellbeing of sexual minority men living in poverty in Hong Kong1
Between commodified and improvisational pleasures: Uses and experiences of sextech by queer, trans, and nonbinary people in Sweden and Australia1
Mobile intimacies? Uncertainty, ambivalence and fluidity in the intimate practices of dating app users in Germany and the UK1
How homophobic propaganda produces vernacular prejudice in authoritarian states1
Scalar tensions and the representation of the queer Spanish nation-state: A thematic analysis of Drag Race Spain1
“On the edge of sustainable”: LGBTQ+ researchers’ experiences of harm, fear, and community1
Anu’s story: Unpacking the conflation of sex work and sex trafficking1
Lingering longer: Performance, queer of color joy, and Baltimore’s VERSION1
Toward a “crip” sociology of fucking1
Queerying consent: Romantic relationship scripts, rape myths, and the ‘sex game gone wrong’1
Mediated risk: A qualitative exploration of students’ experiences flirting online1
Pregnancy and babies versus penises and intercourse: Gender differences in ‘how babies are made’ according to children at two Spanish primary schools1
New directions for asexual geographies1
Resisting and transgressing cisheteronormativity at home: LGBT+ youths’ active strategies1
Fangirling and a sociology of fucking1
Corrigendum to “Changeable sexualities and fluid masculinities: The intersections of sexual fluidity with hegemonic masculinity”1
Undoing gender, doing intimacy: Rewriting gendered scripts through rezu fūzoku1
Book Review: Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth Savin-WilliamsRitch C. Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth, New York, NY: New York University Press, 2021; 328 pp.: $191
Memoirs of impossible identities: Exploring biographical narratives of gay ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses1
New Queer Asias: From queer studies in Asia to queer theory from Asia1
Solving puzzles, playing games: The potential and pitfalls of entertainment education in teaching about sexuality1
Book Review: Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child Ye Shana L. (2024) Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michig1
Book Review: Studying Gender in Medieval Europe1
Stretched kinship: Queer female university students negotiating family and identity1
The trouble with queer fashion: Ambivalence, visibility, and the meanings of ‘queer’ among London-based LGBTIQ creatives1
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