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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Homopopulism: A new layer of LGBTQ politics in India30
“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-being28
Vexed in the city: Femme Failure in the World of Carrie Bradshaw and theLong-Winded Lady22
Leather nostalgia: Constructed histories of Dutch leathermen through national discourses of tolerance and white innocence20
Consensually nonmonogamous parent relationships during COVID-1917
Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China16
Disabled content creators on OnlyFans: Empowerment, representation, and precarity15
“Switch it up”: A qualitative analysis of BDSM switches15
Situating queerness in Filipino experience: The bakla, the parlor, and the paglaladlad12
Space, affect and contagious bodies: Representing HIV in 1990s Czech cinema11
‘It’s a generational thing, really’. Understandings of sexual rights in a digital age11
Ken Plummer: What it is to be human11
Analysing intersex rights narratives in Spain11
Exploring transnational LGBT+ solidarities across the Norwegian-Russian border: The case of Barents Pride11
“It’s kind of like a fifty-fifty”: Participant ambivalence and the queer(ed) potential of the focus group method10
Human rights and affective diplomacy: The presence and strategies of foreign embassies in LGBTQ rights activism in Japan10
The definitional creep: Payment processing and the moral ordering of sexual content10
Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study9
The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan9
‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project9
Book Review: Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century Alyson Spurgas,  Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century9
Grindr? it’s a “Blackmailer’s goldmine”! The weaponization of queer data publics Amid the US–China trade conflict9
Critical chemsex studies: Interrogating cultures of sexualized drug use beyond the risk paradigm9
Controlling the narrative, examining the self: The unruly femme subjectivity of Fleabag8
Book Review: Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media8
The Sexual Politics of hookup culture: A Black feminist intervention8
Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness7
Quantifying sex. Sex-tracking apps and users’ practices7
Live play, live sex: The parallel labors of video game live streaming and webcam modeling7
Mozambican “tolerance” toward homosexuality: Lusotropicalist myth and homonationalism7
Design as sexual practice: The visual culture of social apps and HIV risk in Taiwan7
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); 7
Beyond the Timeline of Progress: Comparing Online Sources with Lived LGBTQ+ Experiences in Guyana6
A sexual superpower or a shame? Women’s diverging experiences of squirting/female ejaculation in Sweden6
“Too weak to fight, too scared to scream”: Understanding experiences of sexual coercion of Black female adolescents through digital storytelling6
“Any cosmo girl would’ve known”: Collaboration, feminine knowledge, and Femme theory in Legally Blonde6
Heteronormative silences and queer resistance in queer people’s experiences of eldercare and home6
Book Review: Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions6
Bye bye romance, welcome reputation: An analysis of the digital enclosure of dating6
Aromanticism, asexuality, and relationship (non-)formation: How a-spec singles challenge romantic norms and reimagine family life5
Platformized production of homonationalism: An ethnography of queer media production in China5
Sexuality and sexual violence: A qualitative study exploring the perspectives of sexuality educators and sexual violence professionals5
‘Maybe I’m a quiet activist’: Sex work scholars and negotiations of ‘minor’ academic-activism5
Stepping off the ‘relationship escalator’. A spatial perspective on residential arrangements of consensually non-monogamous parents5
“Were in this together” - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants: Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality5
Forming brown commons through queer joy in butiki/baboy: A pride conversation series5
Using the stigma engagement strategy in interviews with men who pay for sex5
‘Synced as a couple’: Responsibility, control and connection in accounts of using wireless sex devices during heterosex5
Mainstream novelty: Examining the shifting visibility of drag performance5
Book Review: Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System4
Book Review: Sexuality: From Intimacy to Politics4
The persistence and endurance of blood family4
Trans women’s status in contemporary Iran: Misrecognition and the cultural politics of aberu4
Exploring research gaps and future trajectories in Queer diaspora studies4
Bold resistance: Developing tenets of femme analysis for an era of popular feminism4
“We are in a very precarious position”: Exploring the resilience of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan4
Love, Simon and failure: Challenging normative discourses and femmephobia in gay youth representations4
Erotic capabilities: A feminist analysis of sexual justice and pleasure in heterosexual sex partying4
Hierarchies in heterosexuality: Orgasms, intercourse and sexual scripts3
Storytelling, sociology and sexuality: Ken Plummer’s humanist narrative analysis3
Discrimination and normalization as an effortful social practice: An analysis of LGBTQ+ families in Germany3
Fields, features, and filters: how dating applications construct sexual fields and romantic and erotic capital3
When Illness Is a Crime: Book Review of Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness3
The Elle Woods effect: Being “girled” while reclaiming girliness3
Liveability, environment and policy: Reflections on trans student experience of entering UK higher education3
Viral sensibilities: A conversation with Tim Dean3
We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT+ rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda3
Book review: AIDS & Representation: Queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America3
“Porn is blunt […] I had way more LGBTQ+ friendly education through porn”: The experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals with online pornography3
Queer encounters: Navigating ‘gay-friendly’ neighbourhoods with (and against) cultural maps of homophobia3
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 life3
‘Pay close attention to what my eyes are saying without having to spell it out’: Heterosexual relations and discourses of sexual communication in #MeToo commentaries3
A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments3
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
More like a woman: Activa/Pasiva subjectivities in Cuba3
Introduction – Here versus There: Beyond comparison in queer and sexuality politics3
Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires3
“It’s hard to know what we should be doing”: LGBTQ+ students’ library privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic3
“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 e3
Plastic fantastic: Sex robots and/as sexual fantasy3
Queer mountains: Migrant drag performers reimagining sexual citizenship in Germany3
Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art of Helen Chadwick3
Queer kinship: Experiences of double-motherhood in Brazil3
Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’s Homomonument and the politics of inclusive social practice3
Young women’s sexual agency, relationality, and vulnerability: The Israeli case study of “attacking”3
“Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade”: Exploring LGBTI+ digital activism in Turkey3
Book Review: The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle3
Becoming aware of your gender and sexual identity: Narrative experiences, intersecting identities, and healthcare implications2
(Un)tethered masculinities, (mis)placed modernities: Queering futurity in contemporary Singapore2
Both because of and in spite of: Towards the reclamation of queercrip joy2
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture2
Introduction to the special issue “Mobilising queer joy: Establishing queer joy studies”2
Vanilla normies and fellow pervs: Boundary work on sexual platforms2
Gendered machines in film and television: How ‘post-’ femininities and masculinities challenge the gender binary2
Erotic habitus and collapsed masculinity in male-dominated spaces: The case of the no Fap relapse spaces2
Gender uncoupled: Asexual people making sense of high school sex talk2
Domesticity and the construction of intimacy: Producing the erotic body and self within ‘the love nest’2
‘This magical place’: Understanding BiCon 2008 as a heterotopic place-event2
“It definitely was consensual, but…”: Normative tensions about gendered heterosexuality and young women’s mixed feelings about sex2
‘For us it’s our life!’ – Queer utopian imaginaries in times of pandemic2
“A very risky queer thing to do”: In conversation with Ken Plummer2
Interview with Sally R Munt, Sexualities journal2
“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 debates2
Book Review: Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry2
Book Review: Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living2
Book Review: Everyday Violence: The Public Harassment of Women and LGBTQ People2
Aging out: Place and sexuality2
Gender, sexuality and race: An intersectional analysis of racial consumption and exclusion in Birmingham’s gay village2
Editorial on Ken Plummer2
Ken Plummer’s contributions to the study of sexualities and beyond2
The ‘good gay’ versus chemsex: The articulation of a homonormative response2
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
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
Resisting and transgressing cisheteronormativity at home: LGBT+ youths’ active strategies1
LGBTQ radical activism in the Lebanese Revolution1
U.S. Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: the limits of a sexual rights strategy for polyamorous parents1
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
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
Young people becoming intimate on social media: Digital desires and gender dynamics1
Exploring kinship and the desire to be parents in Spanish same-sex couples1
Affect and queer intimate entanglements in national-neoliberal Estonia1
Queering deportability: The racial and gendered politics of lesbian anti-deportation activism1
Discontented and Jack of all trades: Revisiting male survival sex workers through modern sex work lenses1
Memoirs of impossible identities: Exploring biographical narratives of gay ex-Jehovah’s witnesses1
Book Review: Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam1
“I don’t need advice but I will take it”: Allied labor in transgender allyship1
“You enjoy being a second class citizen”: Unicorn dynamics and identity negotiation on subreddit r/polyamory1
Public sex, private intimacy and sexual exclusivity in men’s formalized same-sex relationships1
Is India’s rape crisis a recent phenomenon? At the crossroads of religious nationalism, caste, and gender1
Book Review: The Tenacity of the Couple Norm: Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe1
Book Reviews: Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire1
Scandinavian design . The continuous closet and queer refugees in Denmark1
Decently transgressing: expressions of female heterosexuality and the discourses of (hetero)sexual pleasure in South Africa1
Sex as self-injury: The appearance of a new diagnostic category in Sweden1
Hypercategorization and hypersexualization: How webcam platforms organize performers and performances1
The politics of everyday life as a sex worker: “Affect”, stigma and resistance1
Lingering longer: Performance, queer of color joy, and Baltimore’s VERSION1
Book Review: Studying Gender in Medieval Europe1
How homophobic propaganda produces vernacular prejudice in authoritarian states1
Solving puzzles, playing games: The potential and pitfalls of entertainment education in teaching about sexuality1
Pleasures of the city. An essay in memory of the Danish sociologist Henning Bech1
Between commodified and improvisational pleasures: Uses and experiences of sextech by queer, trans, and nonbinary people in Sweden and Australia1
Book review: Disability, sexuality, and gender in Asia: Intersectionality, human rights, and the law ZhangWanhongBjørnstølElisabethDingPengGaoWeiLiHanxuLiuYijun (2024) Disability, Sexuality, and Gende1
Book Review: Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private1
The development of sexual selfhood in Mead’s play and game1
New directions for asexual geographies1
The spectre of docking in circumcision debates1
K-pop Fandom’s affective role in shaping knowledge of gender and sexuality among LGBTQ+ fans in Australia and the Philippines1
Book Review: Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity1
Book Review: Queering law and order: LGBTQ communities and the criminal justice system1
Pregnancy and babies versus penises and intercourse: Gender differences in ‘how babies are made’ according to children at two Spanish primary schools1
Mobile intimacies? Uncertainty, ambivalence and fluidity in the intimate practices of dating app users in Germany and the UK1
Stretched kinship: Queer female university students negotiating family and identity1
Scalar tensions and the representation of the queer Spanish nation-state: A thematic analysis of Drag Race Spain1
Exploring the uncomfortable topic of women who engage in child sexual abuse material offenses: How are they represented in the media?1
Anu’s story: Unpacking the conflation of sex work and sex trafficking1
The Black pill pipeline: A process-tracing analysis of the Incel’s continuum of violent radicalization1
‘To raise a village, fall far from the tree’: Methods for queer kinship pasts, presents and futures1
Stigma, invisibility and unattainable ‘choices’ in sex work1
Transpinay: Genealogy of a term1
Mediated risk: A qualitative exploration of students’ experiences flirting online1
Book Review: Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur'an: Retrieving Lost Voices on Gender1
Sexual wellbeing of sexual minority men living in poverty in Hong Kong1
Love, sex, and other dangers – intimate partner relationships of young ethnic queers in Aotearoa New Zealand1
Homo narrans: A transdisciplinary reading of Ken Plummer’s narrative sociology1
The big picture: Representation of LGBTQ characters and themes in picture books available in the United States 1972-20181
The unspeakable queerness in Romania’s communist period: Lesbian and queer accounts beyond gay men’s experiences1
Book Review: The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life EpsteinSteven, The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Sci1
Fangirling and a sociology of fucking1
‘Eko; Eko; Azarak’: Witchcraft, medieval gibberish and queer untranslatability in High Magic’s Aid1
Creating ‘relational leeway’ for implicit activism: Taiwanese lesbians’ coming out experiences and identity management within families1
Ken Plummer: My Intellectual Enlightenment1
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
Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children1
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