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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The coloniality of queer theory: The effects of “homonormativity” on transnational Taiwan’s path to equality20
Chemsex cultures: Subcultural reproduction and queer survival18
‘Traditional values’ and the narrative of gay rights as modernity: Sexual politics beyond polarization17
Students, sex work and negotiations of stigma in the UK and Australia16
Critical chemsex studies: Interrogating cultures of sexualized drug use beyond the risk paradigm16
Injecting as a sexual practice: Cultural formations of ‘slamsex’15
The totalizing meritocracy of heterosex: Subjectivity in NoFap15
‘She doesn’t think that happens’: When heterosexual men say no to sex14
Male homosocial bonds and perceptions of human–robot relationships in an online sex doll forum14
‘It’s nice to be appreciated’: Understanding heterosexual men’s engagements with sexting and sharing Dick Pics14
Hanging, blowing, slamming and playing: Erotic control and overflow in a digital chemsex scene14
The intimacy effect: Girls’ reflections about pornography and ‘actual sex’14
Fucking with homonormativity: The ambiguous politics of chemsex13
Sexual desire and pleasure in the context of the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)13
Queer Asias: Genders and sexualities across borders and boundaries13
‘I guess girls can be more emotional’: Exploring the complexities of sextual consent with young people12
Overwhelming whiteness of BDSM: A critical discourse analysis of racialization in BDSM12
“Something a bit more personal”: Digital storytelling and intimacy among queer Black women11
Sexual identities and reproductive orientations: Coming out as wanting (or not wanting) to have children11
Queering consent: Negotiating critical consent in les-bi-trans-queer BDSM contexts11
Ad libidinem: Forms of female sexualisation in RoastMe humour10
‘Scene’ as a critical framing device: Extending analysis of chemsex cultures10
Who can I turn to? Social networks and the housing, care and support preferences of older lesbian and gay people in the UK10
Introduction: Parenting, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. Critical and queer perspectives10
‘It's about being safe and free to be who you are’: Exploring the lived experiences of queer migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa10
A queer boundary: How sex and BDSM interact for people who identify as kinky10
Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness10
“Companion, friend, four-legged fluff ball”: The power of pets in the lives of LGBTQ+ young people experiencing homelessness10
Writing bugchasing ethnoperformance: Creative representations of online interactions9
Becoming a sexademic: Reflections on a ‘dirty’ research project9
Of longing and waiting: An inter-Asia approach to love and intimacy among older lesbians and bisexual women8
Play, secrecy and consent: Theorizing privacy breaches and sensitive data in the world of networked sex toys8
Complicating parents’ gender and sexual expectations for children: A comparison of biological parents and stepparents8
Dangerous data: Seeing social surveys through the sexuality prism8
(Un)tethered masculinities, (mis)placed modernities: Queering futurity in contemporary Singapore8
Queer expectations: An empirical critique of rural LGBT+ narratives8
The health of LGBTI+ people and the COVID-19 pandemic: A call for visibility and health responses in Latin America8
Asexuals negotiate the ‘onslaught of the heteronormative’8
Historical and generational forces in the Iridescent Life Course of bisexual women, men, and gender diverse older adults7
Queer theory from the South: A contribution to the critique of sexual democracy7
Gendered morality in the sex toy market: Entitlements, reversals, and the irony of heterosexuality7
‘Pay close attention to what my eyes are saying without having to spell it out’: Heterosexual relations and discourses of sexual communication in #MeToo commentaries7
How feminists pick porn: Troubling the link between ‘authenticity’ and production ethics7
Challenging the logic of progressive timeline, queering LGBT successes and failures in Ireland and Russia7
Advance care planning among older LGBT Canadians: Heteronormative influences7
Experiences of older LGBT people ageing in place with care and support: A window on ordinary ageing environments, home-making practices and meeting activities7
Stigma, invisibility and unattainable ‘choices’ in sex work7
Party-n-Play and online information and communication technologies: A socio-linguistic perspective6
Is consent enough? What the research on normative heterosexuality and sexual violence tells us6
I thought we were vibin’: A qualitative exploration of sexual agency and consent in young people6
‘I’m black, a woman, disabled and lesbian’: LGBT ageing and care services at the intersections in South Africa6
“I Didn’t Know Ace Was a Thing”: Bisexuality and pansexuality as identity pathways in asexual identity formation6
Lil Watan: Queer patriotism in chauvinistic Lebanon5
“You enjoy being a second class citizen”: Unicorn dynamics and identity negotiation on subreddit r/polyamory5
Care in late life, end of life and in bereavement for the oldest LGBT generations around the globe5
“They are mar-vel-ous, and they all want me!”: Gay Brazilian tourists and global geographies of desire5
Queering intimate emotions: Trans/nonbinary people negotiating emotional expectations in intimate relationships5
Single women’s sexualities across the life course: The role of major events, transitions, and turning points5
Vanilla democracy: Sexuality, parenthood, and kinship in Greece5
Plastic fantastic: Sex robots and/as sexual fantasy5
Trans*it: Transgender and gender nonconforming asylum claimants’ narratives in Greece5
“Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade”: Exploring LGBTI+ digital activism in Turkey5
Constructing hierarchies of victimhood: Queer male survivors' evaluations of sexual assault survivors4
Being recognized in an algorithmic system: Cruel optimism in gay visibility on Douyin and Zhihu4
Making visible the invisible: Bisexual parents ponder coming out to their kids4
Simplified identities: Four ‘types’ of gays and lesbians on Chileantelenovelas4
Migrant workers and LGBT activism: A comparative study of Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong4
Queer citizens and the perils of the neoliberal city: Racialized narratives of homophobic hate crime in Oslo, Norway4
The gay scientist: Kane Race on the unexpected possibilities of experimental intimacies4
First steps: Health and social care professionals beginning to address the palliative and end of life care needs of people with diverse gender identities and sexual orientations in Lebanon4
Consensually nonmonogamous parent relationships during COVID-194
Populist contestations: Cultural change and the competing languages of sexual and gender identity4
Playing with power: Kink, race, and desire4
When virtuous paedophiles meet online: A sociological study of a paedophile community4
Play! A Special Issue4
A queer(er) temporality: A posthumanist analysis of the performative agencies of time with/in gay men’s anal fisting4
Living like a hetero: Southern homonormativity in Istanbul4
No fats, no fems, no problems? Working out and the gay muscled body4
Black people’s constructions of good sex: Describing good sex from the margins4
Willed ambiguity: An exploratory study of sexual misconduct affecting sexual minority male university students in Canada4
Fun with Dick and Dick: Homosociality on r/MassiveCock4
Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study4
“If you could just see me”: The construction of heterosexual men’s sexual selves and the hierarchy of desirability4
He looks so cute: The discourse of heterosexual relationship initiation by female youth in Nigeria4
The boy in a dress: A spectre for our times4
‘Damn, Channing Tatum can move!’: Women’s accounts of men’s bodies and objectification in post-feminist times3
Sexualising fashion? An introduction to the special theme issue3
‘Boys mostly just want to have sex’: Young Indigenous people talk about relationships and sexual intimacy in remote, rural and regional Australia3
Mess up the empire: Deploying and disrupting homonationalism3
Spatialities of queer globalization: Middle- and working-class Hong Kong gay men’s subjective constructions of homophobia3
“The queers hate me because I’m too butch”: Goldilocks masculinity among non-heterosexual men3
When the closet is the grave: A critical review of the Bruce McArthur case3
Turning Bourdieu back upon sexual field theory3
Transpinay: Genealogy of a term3
Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children3
Performing smart sexual selves: A sexual scripting analysis of youth talk about internet pornography3
Queer (post-)migration experiences: Mexican men’s use of gay dating apps in the USA3
“You’re selling a brand”: Marketing commercial sex online3
‘When one doesn't even exist’: Europeanization, trans* subjectivities and agency in Cyprus3
Polyamory in Paris: A social network theory application3
Silencing the single woman: Negotiating the ‘failed’ feminine subject in contemporary UK society3
U.S. Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: the limits of a sexual rights strategy for polyamorous parents3
“Who is the mum? Who is the dad?”: Same-sex couples’ motivations for and experiences of parenthood3
Homopopulism: A new layer of LGBTQ politics in India3
Rape culture: sexual intimidation and partner rape among youth in sexually diverse relationships3
The persistence and endurance of blood family3
A sexual superpower or a shame? Women’s diverging experiences of squirting/female ejaculation in Sweden3
Bulgarian LGBTQI movement: Generations, identifications, and tendencies3
‘This magical place’: Understanding BiCon 2008 as a heterotopic place-event3
Doing, being and verbalizing: Narratives of queer migrants from Muslim backgrounds in Spain3
Cruising in-between immunity and community: A virtual ethnography of cruising in Istanbul3
Spiritual experiences and altered states of consciousness – Parallels between BDSM and Christianity2
Hypercategorization and hypersexualization: How webcam platforms organize performers and performances2
Specificity without identity: Articulating post-gender sexuality through the “non-binary lesbian”2
Drag for everyone: Creative industries and the becoming-visible of drag in the 21st century Belgrade2
Fields, features, and filters: how dating applications construct sexual fields and romantic and erotic capital2
Sex as self-injury: The appearance of a new diagnostic category in Sweden2
Spanish gay male subjectivity, body, intimacy, and affect on Instagram2
Not a moment too soon: A juncture of BDSM and race2
From hooking up to staying in? Women negotiating appropriate sexuality in nightlife with age2
Exploring the role of place in sex work through participant photography2
How homophobic propaganda produces vernacular prejudice in authoritarian states2
It’s complicated: Sex and the BDSM subculture2
Queering deportability: The racial and gendered politics of lesbian anti-deportation activism2
The courage to ‘get naked’: Stigma, disclosure and lived experience in sex work research2
The untimeliness of trans youth: The temporal construction of a gender ‘disorder’2
The role of sexual orientation, age, living arrangements and self-rated health in planning for end-of-life care for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) older people in the UK2
The sagacity of the surround: The casual sex-assemblages of young adults2
Gender uncoupled: Asexual people making sense of high school sex talk2
Toy stories: The role of vibrators in domestic intimacies2
‘Maybe I’m a quiet activist’: Sex work scholars and negotiations of ‘minor’ academic-activism2
“My Games are … Unconventional”: Intersections of game and BDSM studies2
In pursuit of the potential of sexual field theory: A research agenda2
Live play, live sex: The parallel labors of video game live streaming and webcam modeling2
The involuntary confession of euphoria: ‘Chemsex’ porn and the paradox of embodiment2
Play by design: The porn-viewing room in Taiwanese and Korean men’s sex saunas2
Ageing/body/sex/work – Migrant women’s narratives of intimacy and ageing in commercial sex and elder care work2
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture2
Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’s Homomonument and the politics of inclusive social practice2
When the spotlight is always on the neighborhood: LGBTQ people from a Muslim background deconstructing imagined borders in Brussels, Belgium2
Decently transgressing: expressions of female heterosexuality and the discourses of (hetero)sexual pleasure in South Africa2
‘I feel so much better in myself’: Exploring meaningful non-erotic outcomes of BDSM participation2
Pornification as Westernization on the semi-periphery: The history of the Hungarian ‘porn boom’ in the 1990s2
“Sex as a way to gain some control”: Sexual subjectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Mainstream novelty: Examining the shifting visibility of drag performance2
Queer counterpoints: Making ‘mistakes’ in loveLife’s ‘Make Your Move’2
Introduction to the special issue: BDSM Studies2
Public sex, private intimacy and sexual exclusivity in men’s formalized same-sex relationships2
A short history of same-sex marriage in New Zealand2
‘I’m just with the guys and we’re having a laugh’: Exploring normative masculinity in a lap-dancing club setting, as a heteronormative space2
Marriage, aging, and women’s pursuit of commercial sex in Japan2
Discourse and religious doctrine: Professional social work and the moral regulation of the body in Roman Catholic Ireland1
Doing trust work – the purchase of sex in a Swedish context1
Aerial, apparatus, assemblage: Pain, pleasure, kink, and the circus body without organs1
Storytelling, sociology and sexuality: Ken Plummer’s humanist narrative analysis1
Queering potentials: Negotiations of gender, parenthood, and family in polyamorous relationships in the Netherlands1
Aromanticism, asexuality, and relationship (non-)formation: How a-spec singles challenge romantic norms and reimagine family life1
From TERF to gender critical: A telling genealogy?1
Design as sexual practice: The visual culture of social apps and HIV risk in Taiwan1
‘As straight as they come’: Expressions of masculinities within digital sex markets1
Do you have to have sex to have sex? Defining sex in British law and medicine from the 1950s1
Consent and ethics within sex work and research: An academic and practitioner perspective1
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A lesbian, gay and bisexual migration tale: On the role of intimate citizenship for transforming sexual subjectivities1
Navigating a heteronormative world: Cisgender women, transgender partnerships, sexual identity, and language1
Changeable sexualities and fluid masculinities: The intersections of sexual fluidity with hegemonic masculinity1
Prison same-sex sexualities in the context of politicized homophobia in Malawi1
The Black pill pipeline: A process-tracing analysis of the Incel’s continuum of violent radicalization1
Homonationalism across borders. Exploring cross-border exchange and strategic homonationalism in the construction of progressive nationalism1
‘Any performer you pick!’ Playful manifestations of porn spectatorship1
Intimate citizenship and mental ill health: Informal carers’ accounts of romantic relationship difficulties of people with mental health problems1
“I don’t need advice but I will take it”: Allied labor in transgender allyship1
Bye bye romance, welcome reputation: An analysis of the digital enclosure of dating1
Indigeneity and ‘authenticity’ in African trans* activism1
“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
Parents, whiteness and sex education: A critical race critique of Parent sex education guides1
Older gay men in Hong Kong and later life concerns: Identities matter?1
Changing landscapes: Gay men in the west and northwest of Ireland1
Discontented and Jack of all trades: Revisiting male survival sex workers through modern sex work lenses1
Aging out: Place and sexuality1
The big picture: Representation of LGBTQ characters and themes in picture books available in the United States 1972-20181
Mozambican “tolerance” toward homosexuality: Lusotropicalist myth and homonationalism1
Women's experiences buying sex in Australia – Egalitarian powermoves1
Another perspective: Reflections on using qualitative video-recall procedures in sexual communication research with partnered gay men1
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
Generations of BDSM Czech style: The elimination of roles in role-playing?1
#MeToo, Cisheteropatriarchy and LGBTQ+ Sexual Violence on Campus1
Uncanny Babushka: Migration, aging and the search for a new sexual Self1
Exploring transnational LGBT+ solidarities across the Norwegian-Russian border: The case of Barents Pride1
Tabloid female sex confessions and everyday pro-sex feminism: The case of the Apple Daily Taiwan1
The ‘addict sexual script’: Addiction discourse among Israeli sex industry consumers1
Categories that bind: Transgender, crossdressing, and transnational sexualities in Tokyo1
“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
“Digital kink obscurity: A sexual politics beyond visibility and comprehension”1
Book Reviews: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again1
“I wish people knew that there are other flavors” Reflections on the representation of poly-kink in mainstream media by polyamorous kinksters in the Netherlands1
Exploring the uncomfortable topic of women who engage in child sexual abuse material offenses: How are they represented in the media?1
Beyond the Timeline of Progress: Comparing Online Sources with Lived LGBTQ+ Experiences in Guyana1
Normalizing intersex children through genital surgery: the medical perspective and the experience reported by intersex adults1
How perceptions of masculinity and intimate sexual relationships shape men’s experiences of paying for sex: A qualitative exploration1
African same-sex sexualities and gender diversity: A framing note1
Ever more parents in polyamorous families: A new materialist typology of parenting practices and division of work1
Discrimination and normalization as an effortful social practice: An analysis of LGBTQ+ families in Germany1
Reflections on a career dedicated to the study of BDSM and diverse sexualities1
Algorithmic heteronormativity: Powers and pleasures of dating and hook-up apps1
Biopolitics' new iteration: Gay men, Pre-exposure prophylaxis and the pharmaco-pornographic imagination1
“The ultimate test of self-discipline”: Lockdown and the NoFap community1
Stepping off the ‘relationship escalator’. A spatial perspective on residential arrangements of consensually non-monogamous parents1
“It’s kind of like a fifty-fifty”: Participant ambivalence and the queer(ed) potential of the focus group method1
Mediating PrEP – Introduction to Special Section1
Stretched kinship: Queer female university students negotiating family and identity1
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