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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The coloniality of queer theory: The effects of “homonormativity” on transnational Taiwan’s path to equality	23
Chemsex cultures: Subcultural reproduction and queer survival	21
‘Traditional values’ and the narrative of gay rights as modernity: Sexual politics beyond polarization	19
Queering consent: Negotiating critical consent in les-bi-trans-queer BDSM contexts	17
Fucking with homonormativity: The ambiguous politics of chemsex	17
Critical chemsex studies: Interrogating cultures of sexualized drug use beyond the risk paradigm	17
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 homelessness	13
Queer Asias: Genders and sexualities across borders and boundaries	13
Is consent enough? What the research on normative heterosexuality and sexual violence tells us	13
‘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	12
‘I guess girls can be more emotional’: Exploring the complexities of sextual consent with young people	12
Introduction: Parenting, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. Critical and queer perspectives	12
Hanging, blowing, slamming and playing: Erotic control and overflow in a digital chemsex scene	12
Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness	12
Dangerous data: Seeing social surveys through the sexuality prism	11
Becoming a sexademic: Reflections on a ‘dirty’ research project	10
‘Scene’ as a critical framing device: Extending analysis of chemsex cultures	10
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 formation	9
(Un)tethered masculinities, (mis)placed modernities: Queering futurity in contemporary Singapore	8
Challenging the logic of progressive timeline, queering LGBT successes and failures in Ireland and Russia	8
Of longing and waiting: An inter-Asia approach to love and intimacy among older lesbians and bisexual women	8
“You enjoy being a second class citizen”: Unicorn dynamics and identity negotiation on subreddit r/polyamory	8
“Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade”: Exploring LGBTI+ digital activism in Turkey	8

From TERF to gender critical: A telling genealogy?	7
Queer expectations: An empirical critique of rural LGBT+ narratives	7
Transit*: Transgender and gender nonconforming asylum claimants’ narratives in Greece	7
Stigma, invisibility and unattainable ‘choices’ in sex work	7
Playing with power: Kink, race, and desire	7
‘I’m black, a woman, disabled and lesbian’: LGBT ageing and care services at the intersections in South Africa	7
A sexual superpower or a shame? Women’s diverging experiences of squirting/female ejaculation in Sweden	6
I thought we were vibin’: A qualitative exploration of sexual agency and consent in young people	6
Black people’s constructions of good sex: Describing good sex from the margins	6
Plastic fantastic: Sex robots and/as sexual fantasy	6
A queer(er) temporality: A posthumanist analysis of the performative agencies of time with/in gay men’s anal fisting	6
Living like a hetero: Southern homonormativity in Istanbul	6
Homopopulism: A new layer of LGBTQ politics in India	6
Queering intimate emotions: Trans/nonbinary people negotiating emotional expectations in intimate relationships	6
Performing smart sexual selves: A sexual scripting analysis of youth talk about internet pornography	6
Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study	6
No fats, no fems, no problems? Working out and the gay muscled body	6
Lil Watan: Queer patriotism in chauvinistic Lebanon	6
Being recognized in an algorithmic system: Cruel optimism in gay visibility on Douyin and Zhihu	5
Care in late life, end of life and in bereavement for the oldest LGBT generations around the globe	5
“The queers hate me because I’m too butch”: Goldilocks masculinity among non-heterosexual men	5
Vanilla democracy: Sexuality, parenthood, and kinship in Greece	5
Fields, features, and filters: how dating applications construct sexual fields and romantic and erotic capital	5
‘Damn, Channing Tatum can move!’: Women’s accounts of men’s bodies and objectification in post-feminist times	5
Rape culture: sexual intimidation and partner rape among youth in sexually diverse relationships	5
Mess up the empire: Deploying and disrupting homonationalism	5
Aromanticism, asexuality, and relationship (non-)formation: How a-spec singles challenge romantic norms and reimagine family life	5
Turning Bourdieu back upon sexual field theory	5
Consensually nonmonogamous parent relationships during COVID-19	5
Populist contestations: Cultural change and the competing languages of sexual and gender identity	5
Live play, live sex: The parallel labors of video game live streaming and webcam modeling	5
“Digital kink obscurity: A sexual politics beyond visibility and comprehension”	5
Constructing hierarchies of victimhood: Queer male survivors' evaluations of sexual assault survivors	5
Spanish gay male subjectivity, body, intimacy, and affect on Instagram	5
Public sex, private intimacy and sexual exclusivity in men’s formalized same-sex relationships	4
Marriage, aging, and women’s pursuit of commercial sex in Japan	4
Play! A Special Issue	4
Specificity without identity: Articulating post-gender sexuality through the “non-binary lesbian”	4
Fun with Dick and Dick: Homosociality on r/MassiveCock	4
From hooking up to staying in? Women negotiating appropriate sexuality in nightlife with age	4
When virtuous paedophiles meet online: A sociological study of a paedophile community	4
Ever more parents in polyamorous families: A new materialist typology of parenting practices and division of work	4
Migrant workers and LGBT activism: A comparative study of Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong	4
U.S. Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: the limits of a sexual rights strategy for polyamorous parents	4
Homonationalism across borders. Exploring cross-border exchange and strategic homonationalism in the construction of progressive nationalism	4
Polyamory in Paris: A social network theory application	4
He looks so cute: The discourse of heterosexual relationship initiation by female youth in Nigeria	4
The Black pill pipeline: A process-tracing analysis of the Incel’s continuum of violent radicalization	4
Queer citizens and the perils of the neoliberal city: Racialized narratives of homophobic hate crime in Oslo, Norway	4
‘I feel so much better in myself’: Exploring meaningful non-erotic outcomes of BDSM participation	4

Decently transgressing: expressions of female heterosexuality and the discourses of (hetero)sexual pleasure in South Africa	4
Love, Simon and failure: Challenging normative discourses and femmephobia in gay youth representations	4
“You’re selling a brand”: Marketing commercial sex online	3
The persistence and endurance of blood family	3
Contested intersections: Asexuality and disability, illness, or trauma	3
A (queer) CEO society? Lesbians Who Tech and the politics of extra-ordinary homonormativity	3
Gender uncoupled: Asexual people making sense of high school sex talk	3
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture	3
Algorithmic heteronormativity: Powers and pleasures of dating and hook-up apps	3
“Who is the mum? Who is the dad?”: Same-sex couples’ motivations for and experiences of parenthood	3
A literature review on violence and discrimination against trans people in Portugal: Are we still living in a dictatorship?	3
It’s complicated: Sex and the BDSM subculture	3
Introduction to the special issue: BDSM Studies	3
‘Maybe I’m a quiet activist’: Sex work scholars and negotiations of ‘minor’ academic-activism	3
Silencing the single woman: Negotiating the ‘failed’ feminine subject in contemporary UK society	3
Mainstream novelty: Examining the shifting visibility of drag performance	3
Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children	3
‘This magical place’: Understanding BiCon 2008 as a heterotopic place-event	3
Transpinay: Genealogy of a term	3
Bulgarian LGBTQI movement: Generations, identifications, and tendencies	3
Hypercategorization and hypersexualization: How webcam platforms organize performers and performances	3
Spiritual experiences and altered states of consciousness – Parallels between BDSM and Christianity	3
Not a moment too soon: A juncture of BDSM and race	3
“My Games are … Unconventional”: Intersections of game and BDSM studies	3
When the closet is the grave: A critical review of the Bruce McArthur case	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
“I wish people knew that there are other flavors” Reflections on the representation of poly-kink in mainstream media by polyamorous kinksters in the Netherlands	3