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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
The coloniality of queer theory: The effects of “homonormativity” on transnational Taiwan’s path to equality23
Chemsex cultures: Subcultural reproduction and queer survival21
‘Traditional values’ and the narrative of gay rights as modernity: Sexual politics beyond polarization19
Fucking with homonormativity: The ambiguous politics of chemsex17
Critical chemsex studies: Interrogating cultures of sexualized drug use beyond the risk paradigm17
Queering consent: Negotiating critical consent in les-bi-trans-queer BDSM contexts17
Injecting as a sexual practice: Cultural formations of ‘slamsex’16
“Companion, friend, four-legged fluff ball”: The power of pets in the lives of LGBTQ+ young people experiencing homelessness13
Queer Asias: Genders and sexualities across borders and boundaries13
Is consent enough? What the research on normative heterosexuality and sexual violence tells us13
‘Pay close attention to what my eyes are saying without having to spell it out’: Heterosexual relations and discourses of sexual communication in #MeToo commentaries12
‘I guess girls can be more emotional’: Exploring the complexities of sextual consent with young people12
Introduction: Parenting, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. Critical and queer perspectives12
Hanging, blowing, slamming and playing: Erotic control and overflow in a digital chemsex scene12
Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness12
Dangerous data: Seeing social surveys through the sexuality prism11
Becoming a sexademic: Reflections on a ‘dirty’ research project10
‘Scene’ as a critical framing device: Extending analysis of chemsex cultures10
Asexuals negotiate the ‘onslaught of the heteronormative’10
“I Didn’t Know Ace Was a Thing”: Bisexuality and pansexuality as identity pathways in asexual identity formation9
(Un)tethered masculinities, (mis)placed modernities: Queering futurity in contemporary Singapore8
Challenging the logic of progressive timeline, queering LGBT successes and failures in Ireland and Russia8
Of longing and waiting: An inter-Asia approach to love and intimacy among older lesbians and bisexual women8
“You enjoy being a second class citizen”: Unicorn dynamics and identity negotiation on subreddit r/polyamory8
“Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade”: Exploring LGBTI+ digital activism in Turkey8
From TERF to gender critical: A telling genealogy?7
Queer expectations: An empirical critique of rural LGBT+ narratives7
Trans*it: Transgender and gender nonconforming asylum claimants’ narratives in Greece7
Stigma, invisibility and unattainable ‘choices’ in sex work7
Playing with power: Kink, race, and desire7
‘I’m black, a woman, disabled and lesbian’: LGBT ageing and care services at the intersections in South Africa7
Black people’s constructions of good sex: Describing good sex from the margins6
Plastic fantastic: Sex robots and/as sexual fantasy6
A queer(er) temporality: A posthumanist analysis of the performative agencies of time with/in gay men’s anal fisting6
Living like a hetero: Southern homonormativity in Istanbul6
Homopopulism: A new layer of LGBTQ politics in India6
Queering intimate emotions: Trans/nonbinary people negotiating emotional expectations in intimate relationships6
Performing smart sexual selves: A sexual scripting analysis of youth talk about internet pornography6
Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study6
No fats, no fems, no problems? Working out and the gay muscled body6
Lil Watan: Queer patriotism in chauvinistic Lebanon6
A sexual superpower or a shame? Women’s diverging experiences of squirting/female ejaculation in Sweden6
I thought we were vibin’: A qualitative exploration of sexual agency and consent in young people6
Being recognized in an algorithmic system: Cruel optimism in gay visibility on Douyin and Zhihu5
Care in late life, end of life and in bereavement for the oldest LGBT generations around the globe5
“The queers hate me because I’m too butch”: Goldilocks masculinity among non-heterosexual men5
Vanilla democracy: Sexuality, parenthood, and kinship in Greece5
Fields, features, and filters: how dating applications construct sexual fields and romantic and erotic capital5
‘Damn, Channing Tatum can move!’: Women’s accounts of men’s bodies and objectification in post-feminist times5
Rape culture: sexual intimidation and partner rape among youth in sexually diverse relationships5
Mess up the empire: Deploying and disrupting homonationalism5
Aromanticism, asexuality, and relationship (non-)formation: How a-spec singles challenge romantic norms and reimagine family life5
Turning Bourdieu back upon sexual field theory5
Consensually nonmonogamous parent relationships during COVID-195
Populist contestations: Cultural change and the competing languages of sexual and gender identity5
Live play, live sex: The parallel labors of video game live streaming and webcam modeling5
“Digital kink obscurity: A sexual politics beyond visibility and comprehension”5
Constructing hierarchies of victimhood: Queer male survivors' evaluations of sexual assault survivors5
Spanish gay male subjectivity, body, intimacy, and affect on Instagram5
Play! A Special Issue4
Specificity without identity: Articulating post-gender sexuality through the “non-binary lesbian”4
Fun with Dick and Dick: Homosociality on r/MassiveCock4
From hooking up to staying in? Women negotiating appropriate sexuality in nightlife with age4
When virtuous paedophiles meet online: A sociological study of a paedophile community4
Ever more parents in polyamorous families: A new materialist typology of parenting practices and division of work4
Migrant workers and LGBT activism: A comparative study of Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong4
U.S. Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: the limits of a sexual rights strategy for polyamorous parents4
Homonationalism across borders. Exploring cross-border exchange and strategic homonationalism in the construction of progressive nationalism4
Polyamory in Paris: A social network theory application4
He looks so cute: The discourse of heterosexual relationship initiation by female youth in Nigeria4
The Black pill pipeline: A process-tracing analysis of the Incel’s continuum of violent radicalization4
Queer citizens and the perils of the neoliberal city: Racialized narratives of homophobic hate crime in Oslo, Norway4
‘I feel so much better in myself’: Exploring meaningful non-erotic outcomes of BDSM participation4
Decently transgressing: expressions of female heterosexuality and the discourses of (hetero)sexual pleasure in South Africa4
Love, Simon and failure: Challenging normative discourses and femmephobia in gay youth representations4
Public sex, private intimacy and sexual exclusivity in men’s formalized same-sex relationships4
Marriage, aging, and women’s pursuit of commercial sex in Japan4
Introduction to the special issue: BDSM Studies3
‘Maybe I’m a quiet activist’: Sex work scholars and negotiations of ‘minor’ academic-activism3
Mainstream novelty: Examining the shifting visibility of drag performance3
‘This magical place’: Understanding BiCon 2008 as a heterotopic place-event3
“You’re selling a brand”: Marketing commercial sex online3
Bulgarian LGBTQI movement: Generations, identifications, and tendencies3
Contested intersections: Asexuality and disability, illness, or trauma3
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture3
“Who is the mum? Who is the dad?”: Same-sex couples’ motivations for and experiences of parenthood3
Hypercategorization and hypersexualization: How webcam platforms organize performers and performances3
Not a moment too soon: A juncture of BDSM and race3
“My Games are … Unconventional”: Intersections of game and BDSM studies3
Sex as self-injury: The appearance of a new diagnostic category in Sweden3
“I wish people knew that there are other flavors” Reflections on the representation of poly-kink in mainstream media by polyamorous kinksters in the Netherlands3
It’s complicated: Sex and the BDSM subculture3
Silencing the single woman: Negotiating the ‘failed’ feminine subject in contemporary UK society3
Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children3
Transpinay: Genealogy of a term3
The persistence and endurance of blood family3
A (queer) CEO society? Lesbians Who Tech and the politics of extra-ordinary homonormativity3
Gender uncoupled: Asexual people making sense of high school sex talk3
Algorithmic heteronormativity: Powers and pleasures of dating and hook-up apps3
A literature review on violence and discrimination against trans people in Portugal: Are we still living in a dictatorship?3
Spiritual experiences and altered states of consciousness – Parallels between BDSM and Christianity3
When the closet is the grave: A critical review of the Bruce McArthur case3
Cruising in-between immunity and community: A virtual ethnography of cruising in Istanbul3
Drag for everyone: Creative industries and the becoming-visible of drag in the 21st century Belgrade2
Uncanny Babushka: Migration, aging and the search for a new sexual Self2
A lesbian, gay and bisexual migration tale: On the role of intimate citizenship for transforming sexual subjectivities2
Discourse and religious doctrine: Professional social work and the moral regulation of the body in Roman Catholic Ireland2
Gender, sexuality and race: An intersectional analysis of racial consumption and exclusion in Birmingham’s gay village2
“Any cosmo girl would’ve known”: Collaboration, feminine knowledge, and Femme theory in Legally Blonde2
#MeToo, Cisheteropatriarchy and LGBTQ+ Sexual Violence on Campus2
Play by design: The porn-viewing room in Taiwanese and Korean men’s sex saunas2
‘It’s a generational thing, really’. Understandings of sexual rights in a digital age2
We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT+ rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda2
‘A square peg in a round hole’. Transgender and gender diverse youth and schooling in South Africa2
When the spotlight is always on the neighborhood: LGBTQ people from a Muslim background deconstructing imagined borders in Brussels, Belgium2
In pursuit of the potential of sexual field theory: A research agenda2
Pornification as Westernization on the semi-periphery: The history of the Hungarian ‘porn boom’ in the 1990s2
Resisting and transgressing cisheteronormativity at home: LGBT+ youths’ active strategies2
Mobile intimacies? Uncertainty, ambivalence and fluidity in the intimate practices of dating app users in Germany and the UK2
The involuntary confession of euphoria: ‘Chemsex’ porn and the paradox of embodiment2
“The ultimate test of self-discipline”: Lockdown and the NoFap community2
The courage to ‘get naked’: Stigma, disclosure and lived experience in sex work research2
The sagacity of the surround: The casual sex-assemblages of young adults2
Toy stories: The role of vibrators in domestic intimacies2
The big picture: Representation of LGBTQ characters and themes in picture books available in the United States 1972-20182
Normalizing intersex children through genital surgery: the medical perspective and the experience reported by intersex adults2
Stepping off the ‘relationship escalator’. A spatial perspective on residential arrangements of consensually non-monogamous parents2
“Becumming” oneself as one relates to others: An empirical phenomenological study about sexual identity work in menopause2
How homophobic propaganda produces vernacular prejudice in authoritarian states2
Queering potentials: Negotiations of gender, parenthood, and family in polyamorous relationships in the Netherlands2
Queering deportability: The racial and gendered politics of lesbian anti-deportation activism2
The untimeliness of trans youth: The temporal construction of a gender ‘disorder’2
Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’sHomomonumentand the politics of inclusive social practice2
Avoidance and empowerment: How do sex workers navigate stigma?2
Love, sex, and other dangers – intimate partner relationships of young ethnic queers in Aotearoa New Zealand2
“Sex as a way to gain some control”: Sexual subjectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic2
More bottoms than tops? Mediated sexual roles and masculinity assemblage in Chinese gay communities1
The beginning of the sociological study of BDSM: A personal reflection1
Generations of BDSM Czech style: The elimination of roles in role-playing?1
Navigating a heteronormative world: Cisgender women, transgender partnerships, sexual identity, and language1
How COVID-19 is (and is not) changing the way we talk about sex and dating: A critical analysis of sex advice during the pandemic1
Remembering rape: The temporal construction of sexual violence in autobiographical narratives from 1990s Finland1
Thinking kink: Reflections on the cultural study of BDSM1
Liveability, environment and policy: Reflections on trans student experience of entering UK higher education1
Exploring the role of place in sex work through participant photography1
Another perspective: Reflections on using qualitative video-recall procedures in sexual communication research with partnered gay men1
The ‘addict sexual script’: Addiction discourse among Israeli sex industry consumers1
Discontented and Jack of all trades: Revisiting male survival sex workers through modern sex work lenses1
Orgasm as women’s work? Rethinking pleasure, ‘sex’ and the power dynamics of orgasm through the embodied experiences of orgasmic meditation practitioners1
“Too weak to fight, too scared to scream”: Understanding experiences of sexual coercion of Black female adolescents through digital storytelling1
Queer encounters: Navigating ‘gay-friendly’ neighbourhoods with (and against) cultural maps of homophobia1
Exploring the uncomfortable topic of women who engage in child sexual abuse material offenses: How are they represented in the media?1
Parents, whiteness and sex education: A critical race critique of Parent sex education guides1
Stretched kinship: Queer female university students negotiating family and identity1
Consent and ethics within sex work and research: An academic and practitioner perspective1
“It’s easier to think outside the box when you are already outside the box”: A study of transgender and non-binary people’s sexual well-being1
The white-painters of Cabbagetown: Neighborhood policing and sex worker resistance in Toronto, 1986–19871
Design as sexual practice: The visual culture of social apps and HIV risk in Taiwan1
‘Synced as a couple’: Responsibility, control and connection in accounts of using wireless sex devices during heterosex1
Heteronormative silences and queer resistance in queer people’s experiences of eldercare and home1
(Poly-)Parenthood between project logic and gender identity1
Reflections on a career dedicated to the study of BDSM and diverse sexualities1
‘They won’t wear condoms, so why would we expect them to wear masks?’: Social media, ‘circuit queens’ and the ‘gay civil war’ during COVID-191
The Elle Woods effect: Being “girled” while reclaiming girliness1
Aging out: Place and sexuality1
Queer kinship: Experiences of double-motherhood in Brazil1
Hijra, trans, and the grids of “passing”1
BDSM and total power exchange: Between inclusion and exclusion1
The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan1
Storytelling, sociology and sexuality: Ken Plummer’s humanist narrative analysis1
“It’s kind of like a fifty-fifty”: Participant ambivalence and the queer(ed) potential of the focus group method1
Trans women’s status in contemporary Iran: Misrecognition and the cultural politics of aberu1
‘Any performer you pick!’ Playful manifestations of porn spectatorship1
Categories that bind: Transgender, crossdressing, and transnational sexualities in Tokyo1
Ethical intimacy: Relational work of male sex workers in Hong Kong1
Discrimination and normalization as an effortful social practice: An analysis of LGBTQ+ families in Germany1
Changing landscapes: Gay men in the west and northwest of Ireland1
“Strength and courage in a wonderbra”: Femininity, drag, and the spice girls1
Bold resistance: Developing tenets of femme analysis for an era of popular feminism1
“I don’t need advice but I will take it”: Allied labor in transgender allyship1
Biopolitics' new iteration: Gay men, Pre-exposure prophylaxis and the pharmaco-pornographic imagination1
How perceptions of masculinity and intimate sexual relationships shape men’s experiences of paying for sex: A qualitative exploration1
Unpacking categorizations in researching GBTIQ+ parents1
Do you have to have sex to have sex? Defining sex in British law and medicine from the 1950s1
Changeable sexualities and fluid masculinities: The intersections of sexual fluidity with hegemonic masculinity1
Quantifying sex. Sex-tracking apps and users’ practices1
The ‘good gay’ versus chemsex: The articulation of a homonormative response1
Controlling the narrative, examining the self: The unruly femme subjectivity of Fleabag1
Bye bye romance, welcome reputation: An analysis of the digital enclosure of dating1
Proving gender and sexuality in the (homo)nationalist Greek asylum system: Credibility, sexual citizenship and the ‘bogus’ sexual other1
Scandinavian design. The continuous closet and queer refugees in Denmark1
Mozambican “tolerance” toward homosexuality: Lusotropicalist myth and homonationalism1
Sexual peril and dangerous others: The moral economies of the trans prisoner policy debates in England and Wales1
Book Reviews: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again1
Exploring transnational LGBT+ solidarities across the Norwegian-Russian border: The case of Barents Pride1
Pleasuring bodies: Performativity and sexual play1
Data like any other? Sexual and reproductive health, Big Data and the Sustainable Development Goals1
Aerial, apparatus, assemblage: Pain, pleasure, kink, and the circus body without organs1
Hierarchies in heterosexuality: Orgasms, intercourse and sexual scripts1
“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 e1
Beyond the Timeline of Progress: Comparing Online Sources with Lived LGBTQ+ Experiences in Guyana1
Vexed in the city:Femme Failure in the World of Carrie Bradshaw and theLong-Winded Lady1
‘As straight as they come’: Expressions of masculinities within digital sex markets1
Fangirling and a sociology of fucking1
Vanilla normies and fellow pervs: Boundary work on sexual platforms1
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