Sexualities

Papers
(The TQCC of Sexualities is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Disabled content creators on OnlyFans: Empowerment, representation, and precarity34
Leather nostalgia: Constructed histories of Dutch leathermen through national discourses of tolerance and white innocence34
Vexed in the city: Femme Failure in the World of Carrie Bradshaw and the “ Long-Winded Lady ”25
Navigating desire: Sexual practices of left-behind spouses in Northern Ghana22
“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-being19
Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China19
Human rights and affective diplomacy: The presence and strategies of foreign embassies in LGBTQ rights activism in Japan17
“Switch it up”: A qualitative analysis of BDSM switches17
Space, affect and contagious bodies: Representing HIV in 1990s Czech cinema17
Analysing intersex rights narratives in Spain16
Situating queerness in Filipino experience: The bakla, the parlor, and the paglaladlad15
Exploring transnational LGBT+ solidarities across the Norwegian-Russian border: The case of Barents Pride14
“It’s kind of like a fifty-fifty”: Participant ambivalence and the queer(ed) potential of the focus group method14
Ken Plummer: What it is to be human13
‘It’s a generational thing, really’. Understandings of sexual rights in a digital age12
The definitional creep: Payment processing and the moral ordering of sexual content12
“On a eu chaud”: Digital resistance and community solidarity during the 2024 anti-Woubi crisis in Côte d’Ivoire11
Book Review: Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media cárdenasmicha, Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media, Duke University Press: Durham and London, 2022; 224 pp.; 26.911
Grindr? it’s a “Blackmailer’s goldmine”! The weaponization of queer data publics Amid the US–China trade conflict11
Mozambican “tolerance” toward homosexuality: Lusotropicalist myth and homonationalism11
Controlling the narrative, examining the self: The unruly femme subjectivity of Fleabag10
The Sexual Politics of hookup culture: A Black feminist intervention10
Book Review: Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century Alyson Spurgas,  Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century10
Navigating layered and dual-sourced stigmatization: Experiences of asexuality using stigma management strategies10
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); 10
On reproductive straightening: Pronatalism, privatization, and queer kin in South Korea9
Nonrecognition as violence: The stakes of abolitionist agendas and the invisibilization of sexual labor in Chile9
Quantifying sex. Sex-tracking apps and users’ practices9
Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study9
Sexual politics and knowledge production9
Book Review: Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions8
‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project8
Beyond the Timeline of Progress: Comparing Online Sources with Lived LGBTQ+ Experiences in Guyana8
The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan8
Sexual Datafication7
“Any cosmo girl would’ve known”: Collaboration, feminine knowledge, and Femme theory in Legally Blonde7
Cum together: Sexual interaction, sexual sharing, and sex education in Suck magazine, 1969-19747
Book Review: Midwifery & Sexuality: Why do midwives need a deeper understanding? GeuensSamPolona MivšekAnaGianottenWoet L. Midwifery & Sexuality: Why do midwives need a deeper understanding?Sw7
Forming brown commons through queer joy in butiki/baboy: A pride conversation series7
“Too weak to fight, too scared to scream”: Understanding experiences of sexual coercion of Black female adolescents through digital storytelling7
Bye bye romance, welcome reputation: An analysis of the digital enclosure of dating7
Design as sexual practice: The visual culture of social apps and HIV risk in Taiwan7
Sexuality and sexual violence: A qualitative study exploring the perspectives of sexuality educators and sexual violence professionals6
Fighting bisexual erasure with a double-edged sword: Experiences of successful and unsuccessful bisexual visibilities6
Using the stigma engagement strategy in interviews with men who pay for sex6
‘Synced as a couple’: Responsibility, control and connection in accounts of using wireless sex devices during heterosex6
Live play, live sex: The parallel labors of video game live streaming and webcam modeling6
Heteronormative silences and queer resistance in queer people’s experiences of eldercare and home6
“Were in this together” - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants: Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality6
Between queer sexualities and migrant heteronormative familialism: Chinese rural-to-urban male migrant workers surviving economic precarity and cultural norms6
Corrigendum to “Introduction: Queer immunities/immunologies, queer virology”6
Aromanticism, asexuality, and relationship (non-)formation: How a-spec singles challenge romantic norms and reimagine family life6
Love, Simon and failure: Challenging normative discourses and femmephobia in gay youth representations6
Discrimination and normalization as an effortful social practice: An analysis of LGBTQ+ families in Germany5
Trans women’s status in contemporary Iran: Misrecognition and the cultural politics of aberu5
Erotic capabilities: A feminist analysis of sexual justice and pleasure in heterosexual sex partying5
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 life5
Exploring research gaps and future trajectories in Queer diaspora studies5
Queer mountains: Migrant drag performers reimagining sexual citizenship in Germany5
Acceptance and rejection: Brothers’ and sisters’ responses to sex work disclosure in Poland5
“We definitely need to be less gay”: Questions of language, queer (in)security, and sustainability for the Gay Games Hong Kong5
Bold resistance: Developing tenets of femme analysis for an era of popular feminism5
Stepping off the ‘relationship escalator’. A spatial perspective on residential arrangements of consensually non-monogamous parents5
Trans feminism as an outsider within the neoliberal university: On trans feminism's relation to institutionalized gender and queer studies and the instrumentalization of Blackness5
“We are in a very precarious position”: Exploring the resilience of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan5
The persistence and endurance of blood family5
Plastic fantastic: Sex robots and/as sexual fantasy5
Coming of ace: Visualizing asexual adulthood in teen TV5
Platformized production of homonationalism: An ethnography of queer media production in China5
Book Reviews Mahmud and Ayaz (2024) by R. Raj Rao: Review of Queerness, State Violence, and Historical Revisionism Raj Rao R. Mahmud and Ayaz , India: Sp5
Storytelling, sociology and sexuality: Ken Plummer’s humanist narrative analysis5
Corrigendum to “Digital intimacies: Queer men and smartphones in times of crisis: A roundtable discussion”5
Book review: What do we know about the effects of pornography after fifty years of academic research?by Alan McKee et al. McKeeAlanLitsouKaterinaByronPaulInghamRoger, What Do We Know About the Effects5
“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 e5
‘Send Nudes?’: Teens’ perspectives of education around sexting, an argument for a balanced approach4
Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires4
“Porn is blunt […] I had way more LGBTQ+ friendly education through porn”: The experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals with online pornography4
The intersection of queer theory and transgender sexuality: Why new conceptualisations are needed4
Erratum to “Editorial by Rebecca Saunders: Sexual Datafication”4
Male homosexual identities under transformation: Revisiting a Mexican community4
We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT+ rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda4
Hierarchies in heterosexuality: Orgasms, intercourse and sexual scripts4
Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art of Helen Chadwick4
“It’s hard to know what we should be doing”: LGBTQ+ students’ library privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic4
More like a woman: Activa/Pasiva subjectivities in Cuba4
Queer encounters: Navigating ‘gay-friendly’ neighbourhoods with (and against) cultural maps of homophobia4
Young women’s sexual agency, relationality, and vulnerability: The Israeli case study of “attacking”4
Book Review: AIDS & Representation: Queering Portraiture During the AIDS Crisis in America JohnstoneFiona, AIDS & Representation: Queering Portraiture During the AIDS Crisis in America, London4
Introduction – Here versus There: Beyond comparison in queer and sexuality politics4
Viral Sensibilities: A Conversation with Tim Dean4
A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments4
Book Review: Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising FlorêncioJoãoRosenfeldLiz. Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising. New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers University Press. 2025; pp, 166, $28.95 pb., $754
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