OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sexualities is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The coloniality of queer theory: The effects of “homonormativity” on transnational Taiwan’s path to equality	20
Chemsex cultures: Subcultural reproduction and queer survival	19
Students, sex work and negotiations of stigma in the UK and Australia	17
Critical chemsex studies: Interrogating cultures of sexualized drug use beyond the risk paradigm	17
‘Traditional values’ and the narrative of gay rights as modernity: Sexual politics beyond polarization	17
Injecting as a sexual practice: Cultural formations of ‘slamsex’	17
The totalizing meritocracy of heterosex: Subjectivity in NoFap	16
‘She doesn’t think that happens’: When heterosexual men say no to sex	14
Hanging, blowing, slamming and playing: Erotic control and overflow in a digital chemsex scene	14
‘It’s nice to be appreciated’: Understanding heterosexual men’s engagements with sexting and sharing Dick Pics	14
Male homosocial bonds and perceptions of human–robot relationships in an online sex doll forum	14
Fucking with homonormativity: The ambiguous politics of chemsex	13
Sexual desire and pleasure in the context of the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)	13
Queer Asias: Genders and sexualities across borders and boundaries	13
‘I guess girls can be more emotional’: Exploring the complexities of sextual consent with young people	12
Overwhelming whiteness of BDSM: A critical discourse analysis of racialization in BDSM	12
“Companion, friend, four-legged fluff ball”: The power of pets in the lives of LGBTQ+ young people experiencing homelessness	11
Sexual identities and reproductive orientations: Coming out as wanting (or not wanting) to have children	11
Queering consent: Negotiating critical consent in les-bi-trans-queer BDSM contexts	11
Introduction: Parenting, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. Critical and queer perspectives	10
Who can I turn to? Social networks and the housing, care and support preferences of older lesbian and gay people in the UK	10
Ad libidinem: Forms of female sexualisation in RoastMe humour	10
‘Scene’ as a critical framing device: Extending analysis of chemsex cultures	10
A queer boundary: How sex and BDSM interact for people who identify as kinky	10
Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness	10

Becoming a sexademic: Reflections on a ‘dirty’ research project	9
Asexuals negotiate the ‘onslaught of the heteronormative’	9
The health of LGBTI+ people and the COVID-19 pandemic: A call for visibility and health responses in Latin America	8
Play, secrecy and consent: Theorizing privacy breaches and sensitive data in the world of networked sex toys	8
Of longing and waiting: An inter-Asia approach to love and intimacy among older lesbians and bisexual women	8
Challenging the logic of progressive timeline, queering LGBT successes and failures in Ireland and Russia	8
(Un)tethered masculinities, (mis)placed modernities: Queering futurity in contemporary Singapore	8
Queer expectations: An empirical critique of rural LGBT+ narratives	8
Dangerous data: Seeing social surveys through the sexuality prism	8
Queer theory from the South: A contribution to the critique of sexual democracy	7
Experiences of older LGBT people ageing in place with care and support: A window on ordinary ageing environments, home-making practices and meeting activities	7
Historical and generational forces in the Iridescent Life Course of bisexual women, men, and gender diverse older adults	7
How feminists pick porn: Troubling the link between ‘authenticity’ and production ethics	7
Stigma, invisibility and unattainable ‘choices’ in sex work	7
‘Pay close attention to what my eyes are saying without having to spell it out’: Heterosexual relations and discourses of sexual communication in #MeToo commentaries	7
Gendered morality in the sex toy market: Entitlements, reversals, and the irony of heterosexuality	7
“I Didn’t Know Ace Was a Thing”: Bisexuality and pansexuality as identity pathways in asexual identity formation	7
‘I’m black, a woman, disabled and lesbian’: LGBT ageing and care services at the intersections in South Africa	6
Living like a hetero: Southern homonormativity in Istanbul	6
Queering intimate emotions: Trans/nonbinary people negotiating emotional expectations in intimate relationships	6
Party-n-Play and online information and communication technologies: A socio-linguistic perspective	6
Is consent enough? What the research on normative heterosexuality and sexual violence tells us	6
I thought we were vibin’: A qualitative exploration of sexual agency and consent in young people	6
“You enjoy being a second class citizen”: Unicorn dynamics and identity negotiation on subreddit r/polyamory	5
Care in late life, end of life and in bereavement for the oldest LGBT generations around the globe	5
“Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade”: Exploring LGBTI+ digital activism in Turkey	5
Single women’s sexualities across the life course: The role of major events, transitions, and turning points	5
Vanilla democracy: Sexuality, parenthood, and kinship in Greece	5
Plastic fantastic: Sex robots and/as sexual fantasy	5
Transit*: Transgender and gender nonconforming asylum claimants’ narratives in Greece	5
The gay scientist: Kane Race on the unexpected possibilities of experimental intimacies	5
Consensually nonmonogamous parent relationships during COVID-19	4
Black people’s constructions of good sex: Describing good sex from the margins	4
Lil Watan: Queer patriotism in chauvinistic Lebanon	4
Populist contestations: Cultural change and the competing languages of sexual and gender identity	4
Willed ambiguity: An exploratory study of sexual misconduct affecting sexual minority male university students in Canada	4
When virtuous paedophiles meet online: A sociological study of a paedophile community	4
Play! A Special Issue	4
“If you could just see me”: The construction of heterosexual men’s sexual selves and the hierarchy of desirability	4
No fats, no fems, no problems? Working out and the gay muscled body	4
‘Damn, Channing Tatum can move!’: Women’s accounts of men’s bodies and objectification in post-feminist times	4
Constructing hierarchies of victimhood: Queer male survivors' evaluations of sexual assault survivors	4
Being recognized in an algorithmic system: Cruel optimism in gay visibility on Douyin and Zhihu	4
Making visible the invisible: Bisexual parents ponder coming out to their kids	4
Fun with Dick and Dick: Homosociality on r/MassiveCock	4
Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study	4
A queer(er) temporality: A posthumanist analysis of the performative agencies of time with/in gay men’s anal fisting	4
He looks so cute: The discourse of heterosexual relationship initiation by female youth in Nigeria	4
Homopopulism: A new layer of LGBTQ politics in India	4
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 Lebanon	4

Rape culture: sexual intimidation and partner rape among youth in sexually diverse relationships	4
Playing with power: Kink, race, and desire	4
“The queers hate me because I’m too butch”: Goldilocks masculinity among non-heterosexual men	4
Migrant workers and LGBT activism: A comparative study of Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong	4
Queer citizens and the perils of the neoliberal city: Racialized narratives of homophobic hate crime in Oslo, Norway	4
Turning Bourdieu back upon sexual field theory	4
Mainstream novelty: Examining the shifting visibility of drag performance	3
A sexual superpower or a shame? Women’s diverging experiences of squirting/female ejaculation in Sweden	3
U.S. Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: the limits of a sexual rights strategy for polyamorous parents	3
“You’re selling a brand”: Marketing commercial sex online	3
Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children	3
When the closet is the grave: A critical review of the Bruce McArthur case	3
Doing, being and verbalizing: Narratives of queer migrants from Muslim backgrounds in Spain	3
Performing smart sexual selves: A sexual scripting analysis of youth talk about internet pornography	3
Mess up the empire: Deploying and disrupting homonationalism	3
Spatialities of queer globalization: Middle- and working-class Hong Kong gay men’s subjective constructions of homophobia	3
Transpinay: Genealogy of a term	3
Polyamory in Paris: A social network theory application	3
Sexualising fashion? An introduction to the special theme issue	3
Silencing the single woman: Negotiating the ‘failed’ feminine subject in contemporary UK society	3
Queer (post-)migration experiences: Mexican men’s use of gay dating apps in the USA	3
Sex as self-injury: The appearance of a new diagnostic category in Sweden	3
Cruising in-between immunity and community: A virtual ethnography of cruising in Istanbul	3
Bulgarian LGBTQI movement: Generations, identifications, and tendencies	3
Fields, features, and filters: how dating applications construct sexual fields and romantic and erotic capital	3
‘This magical place’: Understanding BiCon 2008 as a heterotopic place-event	3
“Who is the mum? Who is the dad?”: Same-sex couples’ motivations for and experiences of parenthood	3
Specificity without identity: Articulating post-gender sexuality through the “non-binary lesbian”	3
The persistence and endurance of blood family	3