OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sexualities is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Consensually nonmonogamous parent relationships during COVID-19	26
Leather nostalgia: Constructed histories of Dutch leathermen through national discourses of tolerance and white innocence	25
Book Review: The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media	21
Book Reviews: Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire	19
We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT+ rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda	19
“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-being	18
A different kind of risky business: Men who manage men in the sex industry	15
Stories of homoeroticism amongst male ex-combatants of illegal armed groups: Unexplored areas of the armed conflict in Colombia	14
Queer encounters: Navigating ‘gay-friendly’ neighbourhoods with (and against) cultural maps of homophobia	13
Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China	13
‘Eko; Eko; Azarak’: Witchcraft, medieval gibberish and queer untranslatability in High Magic’s Aid	12
‘I think my body knew what it was before I did’: Affirming women’s embodied experiences as a conduit to knowing	12
No fats, no fems, no problems? Working out and the gay muscled body	11
“It’s hard to know what we should be doing”: LGBTQ+ students’ library privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Viral sexualities, viral songs: Queer musical interventions in the AIDS crisis in Turkey	10
U.S. Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: the limits of a sexual rights strategy for polyamorous parents	9
K-pop Fandom’s affective role in shaping knowledge of gender and sexuality among LGBTQ+ fans in Australia and the Philippines	9
“Porn is blunt […] I had way more LGBTQ+ friendly education through porn”: The experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals with online pornography	8
Constructing hierarchies of victimhood: Queer male survivors' evaluations of sexual assault survivors	8
Data like any other? Sexual and reproductive health, Big Data and the Sustainable Development Goals	8
Spanish gay male subjectivity, body, intimacy, and affect on Instagram	8
Black queer femme and non-binary individuals’ polyamory: An act of liberation	8
The affective toll of COVID-19 on queer joy: A study of young people in Toronto, Melbourne and New York	8
Book Review: Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur'an: Retrieving Lost Voices on Gender	8
From allochronism to generationality: Ageism in queer communities in Belgium	8

Transpinay: Genealogy of a term	8
Strategic adjustments: Daily experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons in Nairobi	8
Book review: AIDS & Representation: Queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America	8
Toy stories: The role of vibrators in domestic intimacies	7
An “Academic Homosexual”: Ken Plummer and the National Deviancy Conference	7
Black people’s constructions of good sex: Describing good sex from the margins	7
Avoidance and empowerment: How do sex workers navigate stigma?	7
Stretched kinship: Queer female university students negotiating family and identity	7
“Strength and courage in a wonderbra”: Femininity, drag, and the spice girls	6
Pregnancy and babies versus penises and intercourse: Gender differences in ‘how babies are made’ according to children at two Spanish primary schools	6
Book Review: The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle	6
“Who is the mum? Who is the dad?”: Same-sex couples’ motivations for and experiences of parenthood	6
Vexed in the city: Femme Failure in the World of Carrie Bradshaw and the “Long-Winded Lady”	6
The unspeakable queerness in Romania’s communist period: Lesbian and queer accounts beyond gay men’s experiences	5
Editorial Introduction: Special Section on older-age migrants and sexualities	5
Book Review: Reframing drag: Beyond subversion and the status Quo	5
Young people becoming intimate on social media: Digital desires and gender dynamics	5
“The gay clubs are it”: An analysis of straight women’s motivations for frequenting gay bars	5
‘I feel so much better in myself’: Exploring meaningful non-erotic outcomes of BDSM participation	5
Ethical intimacy: Relational work of male sex workers in Hong Kong	5
Ambivalent, discontent, and sceptical: Marginalised queer lives in the post-same-sex marriage era in Taiwan	5
Hierarchies in heterosexuality: Orgasms, intercourse and sexual scripts	5
Fields, features, and filters: how dating applications construct sexual fields and romantic and erotic capital	5
Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children	5
Affect and queer intimate entanglements in national-neoliberal Estonia	4
‘Abstinence is panacea’: Reconstructing the ideal of Chinese masculinity through online community	4
‘Straight sex in porn is anything but just straight’: Exploring queer heteroporn	4
Ken Plummer: My Intellectual Enlightenment	4
Is India’s rape crisis a recent phenomenon? At the crossroads of religious nationalism, caste, and gender	4
“Sex as a way to gain some control”: Sexual subjectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Homopopulism: A new layer of LGBTQ politics in India	4
Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires	4
A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments	4
‘It’s a generational thing, really’. Understandings of sexual rights in a digital age	3
Gratitude to Ken Plummer	3
“I don’t need advice but I will take it”: Allied labor in transgender allyship	3
Introduction – Here versus There: Beyond comparison in queer and sexuality politics	3
The politics of everyday life as a sex worker: “Affect”, stigma and resistance	3
The ‘addict sexual script’: Addiction discourse among Israeli sex industry consumers	3
Young women’s sexual agency, relationality, and vulnerability: The Israeli case study of “attacking”	3
Viral sensibilities: A conversation with Tim Dean	3
“I Didn’t Know Ace Was a Thing”: Bisexuality and pansexuality as identity pathways in asexual identity formation	3
Do we have the right to call ourselves an inclusive university? Untold stories of queer students at a rural university in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	3
Living like a hetero: Southern homonormativity in Istanbul	3
Pleasures of the city. An essay in memory of the Danish sociologist Henning Bech	3
Exploring transnational LGBT+ solidarities across the Norwegian-Russian border: The case of Barents Pride	3
Book Review: The Eroticizing of HIV, Viral Fantasies (Book Review)	3
“It’s kind of like a fifty-fifty”: Participant ambivalence and the queer(ed) potential of the focus group method	3
Strategies of passing: Hypervisible bodies, disrespectable affinities, and Syrian trans refugees in Lebanon	3
Understanding young adult Muslim and Christian attitudes toward queer identity: A Canadian and UK comparison	3

Mediated risk: A qualitative exploration of students’ experiences flirting online	3
Corrigendum to ‘Interview with Sally R Munt, Sexualities journal’	3
Introduction: Special section ‘female clients of commercial sex’	3
Disabled content creators on OnlyFans: Empowerment, representation, and precarity	3
Solving puzzles, playing games: The potential and pitfalls of entertainment education in teaching about sexuality	3
I thought we were vibin’: A qualitative exploration of sexual agency and consent in young people	3
The definitional creep: Payment processing and the moral ordering of sexual content	3
Book Review: Pornography: A philosophical introduction	3
Sexual peril and dangerous others: The moral economies of the trans prisoner policy debates in England and Wales	2
Stigma, invisibility and unattainable ‘choices’ in sex work	2
“Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade”: Exploring LGBTI+ digital activism in Turkey	2
Analysing intersex rights narratives in Spain	2
Journeying with Ken Plummer through radical constructionism, critical humanism and intimate counterpublics	2
Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’s Homomonument and the politics of inclusive social practice	2
‘Having to use English others us': South African terminologies of sexual and gender diversity	2
Book Review: Women Resisting Sexual Violence and the Egyptian Revolution: Arab Feminist Testimonies	2
Challenging the logic of progressive timeline, queering LGBT successes and failures in Ireland and Russia	2
Contested intersections: Asexuality and disability, illness, or trauma	2
Queer Asias: Genders and sexualities across borders and boundaries	2
Performing queer loneliness in Art AIDS America (2015–17) and Queer British Art (2017)	2
‘Send Nudes?’: Teens’ perspectives of education around sexting, an argument for a balanced approach	2
Phallic metaphors and metonyms: Emerging meanings of Viagra and masculinity in news media	2
“Boys just ruin it”: Exploring the popularity of lesbian pornography among straight women	2
Both because of and in spite of: Towards the reclamation of queercrip joy	2
Dangerous data: Seeing social surveys through the sexuality prism	2
More like a woman: Activa/Pasiva subjectivities in Cuba	2
I know you are but who Am I? Presentation and labelling in young queer communities	2
Homo narrans: A transdisciplinary reading of Ken Plummer’s narrative sociology	2
Human rights and affective diplomacy: The presence and strategies of foreign embassies in LGBTQ rights activism in Japan	2
Book Review: Studying Gender in Medieval Europe	2
Queerly departed: Queer viral socialities and Caribbean migrant desires	2
Orgasm as women’s work? Rethinking pleasure, ‘sex’ and the power dynamics of orgasm through the embodied experiences of orgasmic meditation practitioners	2
Grindr? it’s a “Blackmailer’s goldmine”! The weaponization of queer data publics Amid the US–China trade conflict	2
Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art of Helen Chadwick	2
“Switch it up”: A qualitative analysis of BDSM switches	2
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture	2
Space, affect and contagious bodies: Representing HIV in 1990s Czech cinema	2
When the closet is the grave: A critical review of the Bruce McArthur case	2
Ken Plummer: What it is to be human	2