Culture Health & Sexuality

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Between ‘block course relationships ’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University	19
Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools	18
Mental health and related service use by sex workers in rural and remote Australia: ‘there’s a lot of stigma in society’	15
The juxtaposition of invalidation and “inviting in”: a qualitative study of bisexual identity in South Africa	14
‘We don’t openly discuss these things’: Cultural complexities in teaching about sexuality and HIV in South Africa	14
Exploring Latino cultural factors from the perspective of sexual minority men in the USA	13
Contemplating abortion: a qualitative study of men and women’s reactions to unplanned pregnancy in Sierra Leone	12
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support	12
Putting it behind? Young Indian victim-survivors of sexual violence and the quest for sexual well-being	12
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris	12
Exploring the relationship between medically unnecessary childhood penile circumcision and adult mental health	12
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the “training for health professionals” study	12
Medical gendered racism and Black women’s experiences of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder in the USA – A conceptual exploration	11
Sprouting sideways: queer temporalities and kinship in donor conception	11
Sex workers’ self-reported physical and mental health in Greece. A repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019	11
‘I created my own access:’ understanding mental healthcare access experiences among LGTBQ + youth who use cannabis in Canada	11
‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood	11
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore	11
Men’s Achilles’ heel: prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity	10
Female genital cosmetic surgery in Indonesia: a qualitative analysis of medical advertising on Instagram	10
Understanding service preferences among consensually non-monogamous individuals seeking sexual healthcare	10
Experience of menstruation with the use of reusable menstrual products: a qualitative study among menstruators in Israel	10
Men who have sex with men experience low anxiety and few barriers to performing anal self or companion examinations: a qualitative study of the Prevent Anal Cancer Palpation Study	9
Correction	9
Navigating LGBTQ+ visibility in Poland: evidence from a community experiencing minority stress	9

Theorising masculinity, ageing, and the lived body: the case of prostate cancer	9
Interactive community-based theatre to address social barriers to accessing reproductive health services in patriarchal societies: the case of Jordan	9
Living in a liminal space: Experiences of 2SLGBTQ + official language minority Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
From stigma to solutions: harnessing local wisdom to tackle harms associated with menstrual seclusion ( chhaupadi ) in Nepal	9
Exploring the motivations and dynamics of older French-speaking men settled in Thailand	9
‘I did not have sex outside of our bubble’: changes in sexual practices and risk reduction strategies among sexual minority men in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Social support among women with genital fistula in Uganda	9
Pre-migration trauma and post-migration health burdens among sexuality and gender minority forced migrants: an exploratory qualitative study	8
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men’s chemsex practices	8
Lateral violence and its effects on the health of sexual minority pre-service teachers in township schools in South Africa	8
Invisible survivors: sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant women in French Guiana	8
A qualitative community health assessment of HIV prevention awareness in a semi-rural Latinx seasonal farm working community in South Florida	8
Chest binding in context: stigma, fear, and lack of information drive negative outcomes	8
Narratives of gender identity and invisible difficulties: interviews with Japanese Josōsha and Josōsha Aikō Dansei	8
The Beijing Rainbow Film Festival: between depoliticisation and performative activism	8
‘I don’t live in my body somehow’: metaphorical talk in women’s accounts of vaginismus and dyspareunia	7
Growing up in the shadow of HIV: post-AIDS generation of HIV-negative men who have sex with men in Sweden and their perceptions of HIV and stigma	7
Attitudes regarding the safety of in-clinic and self-managed abortion methods among the US general public in early 2022	7
‘To be vigilant to leave no trace’: secrecy, invisibility and abortion travel from the Republic of Ireland	7
Exploring the identities and experiences of young queer people in Mongolia using visual research methods	7
Understanding drivers of female sex workers’ experiences of external/enacted and internalised stigma: findings from a cross-sectional community-centric national study in South Africa	7
Beyond the surface: understanding the cultural roots of corrective rape in South African townships	7
‘It would be a problem for the family’: queerness, family honour and familism in Chile	7
The dual faces of polygyny and ageing in Ghana: cultural status vs. social strain	7
‘ Just get a clearer idea of who I am ’ : LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of abortion care in Aotearoa New Zealand following law reform	7
Thinking incrementally about policy interventions on intimate partner violence in Papua New Guinea: understanding ‘popcorn’ and ‘blanket’	7
Cripping and queering gender-based violence prevention: bridging disability justice, queer joy, and consent education	7
Boys’ perspectives on girls’ marriage and school dropout: a qualitative study revisiting a structural intervention in Southern India	6
The influence of social relationships on PrEP attitudes among women with incarceration experience in the Southeastern USA	6
The influence of intersectional stigma on mental health, uptake and retention in antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes for gender and sexuality diverse young people in Zimbabwe	6
First sexual intercourse: where did it take place? The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on the locations of initial sexual activity in university students	6
‘Why aren’t you on PrEP? You’re a gay man’: reification of HIV ‘risk’ influences perception and behaviour of young sexual minority men and medical providers	6
Reconciling intimacy and safety: a qualitative systematic review of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation among gay and bisexual men	6
‘I turn to my closest friends for support’: queer youth navigating mental health during COVID-19	6
“A sweet in a polythene is not sweet”: men’s perceptions of their roles and experiences with family planning in East Uganda	6
Indigenous research methods for healing sexual trauma with Cree women	6
Rituals of transition during pregnancy in contemporary societies: a scoping review	6
Teenage pregnancy in Tambogrande, Peru: causes, consequences and cycles of violence and disadvantage	6
Safe abortion in Latin America: a look at abortion accompaniment collectives from the perspective of their activists	6
Cultural values influencing iTaukei women’s discussion of family planning in the home	6
Intersections between culture, contraception, knowledge and the body in the USA	6
“Sewed girl” pronounced “virgin”: hymenoplasty and the shift in rhetoric of virginity in Iran	6
Experiences of interpersonal violence among a diverse sample of male sex workers	6
Relating ‘to her Human Side’: a Grounded Theory analysis of cosmetologists’ and aestheticians’ relationships with clients in Black American beauty salons to inform sexual health interventions	5
Disrupting menstrual stigma at work? A thematic analysis of menstrual leave policy announcements across five countries	5
Iatrogenic necropolitics: forced anal examinations and state-sanctioned homophobia	5
Interpersonal violence victimisation, HIV-related behaviours and STIs among adult, urban Indigenous and non-Indigenous gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Guatemala	5
Helping to destigmatise the use of period products for trans, masculine presenting, non-binary and gender diverse (TMNG) consumers through an inclusive communication design framework	5
Australian Muslim youth voices about religion and relationships and sexuality education	5
Branched sexuality and sexual health among Black cisgender sexual minority men in Baltimore, Maryland: an exploratory study	5

The entangled coexistence of materiality and subjectivity: a new materialist analysis of China’s jiese community	5
#WhyIDidntReport my sexual violence and its effect on social support	5
Women are the thread: Keetoowah elders’ experiences of becoming a mother	5
Confidence, practices and training needs of people working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ clients	5
Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution	5
From AIDS to COVID-19, and back again	5
Transgender migration and displacement: the experience of khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore	5
Health intervention experiences and associated mental health outcomes in a sample of LGBTQ people with intersex variations in Australia	4
Migrants facing intersectional vulnerability to HIV and AIDS in Switzerland: an exploratory study	4
Heterosexual ‘situationships’ and HIV exposure for sexual and gender minority persons assigned female at birth in the Western Kenyan context	4
Are daughters more preferred by young people in contemporary China? Qualitative evidence from one-child generation cohorts in urban Jiangsu	4
Restorative solutions for anti-LGBT victimisation experiences: potential pathways for victims’ wellbeing and key challenges and needs	4
‘Chinese academia wouldn’t be tolerant of my research’: gay academics’ concerns about conducting queer research in China	4
Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health	4
Understanding access to healthcare for gender diverse young people: a critical review of the literature	4
Women’s experiences of needing abortion care whilst incarcerated: a systematic review of the international literature	4
Non-binary narratives: subjectivation and lived experiences in contemporary Italy	4
‘[E]ven in our fear […] we wanted to do this’: feminist organising for abortion in Africa as palimpsestic	4
Co-worker dynamics among Canadian sex workers in a stigmatised and criminalised environment	4
Unintended pregnancies in the lives of young people in Luwero, Uganda: a narrative analysis	4
Sex work stigma and the recuperation of moral personhood through gendered labour: sex worker diaries in Ukraine	4
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women: a socio-ecological model approach	4
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India	4
Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations	4
‘How can you worry about employment and survival at the same time?’: employment and mental health among precariously employed cisgender and transgender sexual minority adult men in Toronto, Canada	4
Sexual healthcare experiences of nonbinary young adults	4
How to have sex in a pandemic: the development of strategies to prevent COVID-19 transmission in sexual encounters among gay and bisexual men in Australia	4
‘It changes everything’: the impact of HIV-related stigma on sexual health and intimacy among African American women	4
The experience of abortion for Cook Islands women: exploring the socio-cultural dimensions of abortion safety	4
Being a good boy: pup play, body image, and the self for gay, bi, trans, and queer men	4
Self-care practices during the gender transition of Costa Rican transgender men	4
They call us goor-jigeen: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of Senegalese Muslim men who have sex with men living with HIV	4
The intersectional social patterning of early-COVID-era digital intimacies among transgender and gender-diverse young adults: effects on peri-pandemic sexual decision-making	4
‘We are aspiring to something that is not achievable by natural means’: a material-semiotic rendition of ‘technologies of the self’, steroid use, and social media among queer men in Winnipeg, Canada	4
The ongoing and contentious coverage of abortion in a progressive context: a long-term cross-outlet assessment of Dutch abortion news (2000–2022)	4
‘It’s a very grey, very messy area’: a qualitative examination of factors influencing undetectable gay men’s HIV status disclosure to sexual partners	4
Cultural practices supporting early motherhood in a Ghanaian community	4
School teachers’ menstrual experiences and practices: reflections from rural Rajasthan, India	4
‘Let the ladies know’: queer women’s perceptions of how gender and sexual orientation shape their eating and weight concerns	4
Going through treatment: experiences of women who sought assisted reproductive technology treatment in five selected hospitals in Ghana	4
Bleeding beyond binaries: a critical interpretive review of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming experiences with menstruation	4
Selling female pleasure: women’s adult industry and its podcasting in mainland China	4
‘Oh, I don’t really want to bother with that:’ gay and bisexual young men's perceptions of barriers to PrEP information and uptake	4
Identity and pregnancy in conflict?: an examination of sexual minority women using qualitative description	3
‘It takes a village to raise a child’: loss of ubuntu led to an escalation of teenage pregnancy during the COVID-19 lockdown in Uganda	3
‘My choice, my responsibility’: views of Danish and Israeli female students on financing egg-freezing	3
Population politics, reproductive governance and access to abortion in Turkey	3
“‘Corona’ was bigger than AIDS”: exploring how female sex workers with HIV navigated HIV care and treatment during the onset of COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic and Tanzania	3
Pampalibog : chemsex, desire and pleasure in the Philippines	3
Blessing of the moon: cultural beliefs, birth timing and child health in Nepal	3
Good servant, bad master: How eighty women perceive the influence of pornography on sexual scripts	3
‘If we take the engine out, how will the car go?’: beliefs, understanding and access to vasectomy services in Timor-Leste	3
‘It’s not a me thing’: the role of transcendence and critical politics in Black LGBTQ wellness in Montreal	3
Missing voices: building women living with HIV’s meaningful engagement in HIV clinical and cure research	3
‘I never see anyone like myself represented in discussions about endometriosis’: priorities of LGBTQIA + endometriosis patients in New Zealand	3
Relationship impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions on young women and men in Durban and Soweto, South Africa	3
Coming across a hidden problem in an excluded population in Sweden: professionals’ experiences of young migrants’ disclosures of sexual violence	3
Breaking the silence: women’s resistance to menstrual shame on the Xiaohongshu social media platform	3
Sex life and sexuality among tongqi: doing gender and heterosexuality	3
Sexual and reproductive health and rights decision-making among Australian migrant and refugee youth: a group concept mapping study	3
Women’s perspectives on barriers to potential PrEP uptake for HIV prevention: HIV risk assessment, relationship dynamics and stigma	3
A fertility app for two? Women’s perspectives on sharing conceptive fertility work with male partners	3
The scarlet V: how women with dyspareunia negotiate postfeminist discourses of sexual agency	3
Intersectional vulnerabilities and differential impacts of COVID-19 responses on young people who sell sex in Zimbabwe	3
Narrative strategies to re-signify sexual violence among gender and sexuality diverse Central American migrants in Tijuana	3
Navigating intersecting identities and disclosure strategies: qualitative insights from gay Arab Australian men	3
Stepping out of secrecy: heterosexuality, quality of life, and experiences of HIV peer navigation in Australia	3
Communicating sexual health to the incarcerated population: information dissemination in a US sample of inmate handbooks	3
The COVID-19 pandemic and male sex workers who have sex with men: associations between age and race and advertising for work in 2019–2021	3
‘We did not want to marry then, but’: understanding early marriage among Muslims in the context of the ‘Kerala model’ of development	3
Intimacy and identity negotiation in online asexual communities: beyond normative assumptions	3
‘It does not make the taboo go away’—women’s reactions to menstrual products advertisement videos	3
Sexual self-representation in digital media	3
Trusted networks: a study of communication flow and access to abortion information in Argentina	3
Sexual minority men’s experiences of, and strategies for emotional intimacy in intimate partner relationships	3
Indigenous men’s pathways to ‘living the right kind of life and walking the right path’ post incarceration in Canada: understanding the impacts of systemic oppression, and guidance for healing and (w)	3
Taking matters into our own hands? Hierarchies of power and knowledge in online framings of IUD self-removal	3
Self-diagnosing the end of pregnancy after medication abortion	3
‘Without support, you are just alone’: relational food insecurity among a sample of gay men in India	3
‘I could see myself doing something like that’: US women’s engagement with characters who experience abortion, adoption and surrogacy on Little Fires Everywhere	2

More than prevention: early adoption of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by gay and bisexual men in New Zealand	2
Unpacking cervical cancer stigma in healthcare: lessons learnt from Indonesian patients and health professionals	2
Communicative appeals and messaging frames in visual media for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis promotion to cisgender and transgender women	2
Agency in young people’s unsafe abortion trajectories in Papua New Guinea	2
Sexuality and gender change efforts in Malaysia – proximal stressors and mental ill-health amongst LGBT+ adults	2
Preparing to play: a thematic analysis of bottom training in gay men’s fist-play	2
Media representation, perception and stigmatisation of race, sexuality and HIV among young black gay and bisexual men	2
A qualitative exploration of perceptions of anal sex: implications for sex education and sexual health services in England	2
‘Trauma sits in your body and makes you shut down:’ sexual and reproductive health professionals’ views of the impact of trauma on the sexual health of Native American older adolescent and young adult	2
Shifting meanings of HIV among Mapuche people in Chile: transmission, diagnosis and treatment narratives	2
The politics of LGBT+ suicide and suicide prevention in the UK: risk, responsibility and rhetoric	2
Community perspectives on Female Genital Mutilation in the Kuria community in Kitunda – Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania	2
Using an intersectional life course perspective to understand familial environment and its impact on sexuality development among Asian American sexual minority college students	2
Changes in ageing women’s sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective: security, caring, and desire	2
Using systems thinking to leverage adolescent sexual and reproductive health in rural Latino communities	2
Gender, romantic relationships and sexual health in Mexico: Parents’ experiences of discussion with their children	2
‘Protecting your body and loving yourself’: strategies Black male caregivers use to protect Black girls sexuality in the USA	2
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and or queer patient experiences in Canadian primary care and emergency departments: a literature review	2
How young Australian women explain their use of condoms, withdrawal and fertility awareness: a qualitative analysis of free-text comments from the CUPID study	2
Gender equity and intimate partner violence among adolescents and young adults in Tanzania	2
Managing the business of sex: swinger club managers and sexual health promotion	2
Young people’s perceptions of young women’s engagement in sexting	2
Experiences of, and motivations for, disclosing HIV to social and familial networks: considering the social and relational domains of HIV disclosure	2
Stigmatised as ‘promoting’ with a duty to report: public healthcare workers providing services to criminalised ‘key populations for HIV’ under Uganda’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act	2
Adapting to poverty and dealing with gender: a comparative perspective on teenage pregnancy in the Peruvian Amazon	2
Submit to survive: an exploration of sexual cleansing as an act of violence against widows in the Luo community of Kenya	2
Fertility intentions and family size among married men in Khartoum, Sudan	2
Barriers to family planning through structural health vulnerabilities: findings from case studies from rural Uganda	2
Gendered meanings and mechanisms of intimacy for people living with chronic pain	2
Disclosure, outing and family reactions: experiences of gender and sexuality diverse individuals in Harare, Zimbabwe	2
Cultural taboos and low sexual and reproductive health literacy among university students in Magway city, Myanmar	2
Swingers and swinging: a critical review of early and current literature and theory	2
‘Parents are gudlists!’ Experiences of puberty and parent-child sexual communication in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	2
Danger and sexuality: exploring negotiations in romantic and sexual relationships among university students in Ghana	2
Virality, desire and health assemblages: mapping (dis)continuities in the response to and management of HIV and COVID-19	2
Women at crossroads: a qualitative study of induced abortion and violence in a Ghanaian region	2
Navigating cultural and gender aspects of stigma among women living with HIV in Vietnam	2
LGBTQ+ disclosure: challenges and possibilities	2
Young adult writers’ thoughts on healthy pornography	2
Association of traditional marital practices with contraceptive decision-making, couple communication, and method use among couples in rural Maharashtra, India	1
When assisted reproductive technology (ART) opens the door for inclusivity in a highly charged cultural milieu: an exploration of news articles on the establishment of ART clinics in Zimbabwe	1
Childfree activism and reproductive norms in the 21st century	1
Counselling men involved in unintended pregnancy	1
Reconciling moral discourses on choice, risk and pronatalism: the politics of elective egg freezing in Singapore	1
‘Keep your eyes open’: HBCU women’s peer sexual advice and the (re)production of vigilance	1
Women’s orgasms in Senegal: an exploratory mixed methods study of orgasm frequency, pleasure, and meaning among Senegalese women	1
‘You have a lot of mirrors’: structural and socioecological factors impacting adolescent pregnancy and reproductive health in the Amazon basin, Peru, a qualitative study	1
The medical consultation as a site for governing abortion	1
Viral times, viral memories, viral questions	1
‘I told him I’m gonna get it’: intimate partner birth control communication among homeless young women	1
Navigating through menstrual health experiences of educated urban individuals who menstruate during the COVID-19 lockdown: a study from India	1
‘Surviving and thriving’: intersectional stigma and resilience of dual minority identities among Chinese gay and bisexual men living with HIV	1
Abortion: Autonomy, Anxiety and Exile – Editorial Introduction to a CHS Collection	1
Perceptions of healthcare accessibility and medical mistrust among Black women living with HIV in the USA	1
Intersecting gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation identities and HIV stigma: results from the People Living with HIV Stigma Index study in three provinces in Canada	1
A conceptual framework for queer, black womxn sexual assault survivors: an adaptation of the minoritised stress model	1
‘Every slap demeans me’: at the intersection of disability, masculinity and intimate partner violence in the Global South	1
Understanding the role of medicalisation in mothers’ decision-making on daughters’ female genital cutting in Assiut, Egypt	1
‘This is what's going to heal our kids’: bringing the Sexy Health Carnival into Indigenous cultural gatherings	1
Understanding social capital among young black gay and bisexual men living with HIV: a qualitative exploration	1
Prep-Tok: a queer critical discourse analysis of TikToks regarding HIV-related pre-exposure prophylaxis	1
‘Having children is like rain, as they say in our region’: exploring refugees’ reproductive agency	1
‘I just LOVE data’: perceptions and practices of data sharing and privacy among users of the Lioness	1
Structural factors shape racial differences in neighbourhood-level HIV risk environments for young men who have sex with men	1
COVID-19, lockdowns, and the mental wellbeing of LGBTQ people in Australia	1
‘The abortion gave me my life back’: the long-term impact of access to self-managed medication abortion through telemedicine on women’s lives in legally restricted countries	1
Religion, culture and sexuality in Africa: critical ethnographic perspectives	1
Fertility preservation and protection: young women’s decision-making about contraceptive use in Zimbabwe	1
‘How can I fix my disrupted life?’ Embodied experiences and biocitizenship among men who have sex with men living with HIV in China	1
‘People need to know we exist!’: an exploratory study of the labour experiences of transmasculine and non-binary sex workers and implications for harm reduction	1
Social connectedness and supported self-management of early medication abortion in the UK: experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic and learning for the future	1
The role of activists’ sexual orientation and gender identity in their participation in LGBT movements: a case study from Yunnan, China	1
Photodiagnosis of genital herpes and warts: a sociomaterial perspective on users’ experiences of online sexual health care	1
The invisibility of Black and Latina women in sexual health care: shifting from biological individualism to intersectionality	1
‘I don’t want to have to teach every medical provider’: barriers to care among non-binary people in the Canadian healthcare system	1
Parental attitudes towards sexual orientation and gender diversity: challenging LGBT discrimination in Australian schools	1
Disability, culture, and erased sexuality: curated raw narratives of disabled women with significant impairments in India	1
Interpersonal scripts and sexual communication: experiences and perspectives of young people in St. Petersburg, Russia	1
“Having a guru is like having a licence”: analysing financial relationships between khwaja sira gurus and chelas in Swat, Pakistan	1
‘How do I really want to be as a man?’ Masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraceptive decision-making – findings from an interview study in Germany	1
The end point of it is abstinence: a qualitative analysis of underlying factors influencing Christian leaders’ adoption and implementation of sex and sexuality education in Bolgatanga, Ghana	1
‘Yeah, they suck. It’s like they don’t care about our health.’ Medical mistrust among Black women under community supervision in New York city	1
Between cultures and traditions: a qualitative investigation of sexual and reproductive health experiences of immigrant adolescents in Canada	1
Contraceptive decision making among Chinese international students in Melbourne: findings from a qualitative investigation	1
Family planning in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: personal beliefs, intimate partner negotiations and social pressure	1
Asked to be a sperm donor: disclosure dilemmas of gay men living with HIV	1
‘Sometimes white doctors are not very friendly or inclusive’: a Critical Race Theory analysis of racism within and beyond sexual health settings	1
‘We can’t help who we love’: The impact of relationship dynamics on women’s HIV prevention strategies	1
Developing critical HIV health literacy: insights from interviews with priority migrant communities in Queensland, Australia	1
First Nations music and social emotional wellbeing and health among LGBTIQA+SB First Nations peoples: a review of the literature	1
Transnational AIDS networks, regional solidarities and the configuration of meti in Nepal	1
Using the behaviour change wheel to examine facilitators and barriers to assertive contraception-use conversations for Indonesian women	1