OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Culture Health & Sexuality 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
From Earthly companions to extraterrestrial countermeasures: rethinking AI-mediated intimacy for long-duration spaceflight through modular autonomous intimacy companion architecture	33
Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools	22
Exploring the relationship between medically unnecessary childhood penile circumcision and adult mental health	21
‘We don’t openly discuss these things’: Cultural complexities in teaching about sexuality and HIV in South Africa	21
Healthcare experiences of transgender and gender diverse adults in rural areas in US ‘affirming’ states	21
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the “training for health professionals” study	20
Between ‘block course relationships ’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University	19
The juxtaposition of invalidation and “inviting in”: a qualitative study of bisexual identity in South Africa	18
Vaginal practices in the creation of womanhood and women’s attainment of sexual pleasure in rural Zimbabwe	16
Exploring Latino cultural factors from the perspective of sexual minority men in the USA	16
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support	16
‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood	15
Putting it behind? Young Indian victim-survivors of sexual violence and the quest for sexual well-being	14
Navigating LGBTQ+ visibility in Poland: evidence from a community experiencing minority stress	14
Medical gendered racism and Black women’s experiences of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder in the USA – A conceptual exploration	14
‘I created my own access:’ understanding mental healthcare access experiences among LGTBQ + youth who use cannabis in Canada	14
Sprouting sideways: queer temporalities and kinship in donor conception	14
Sexual lives and coping experiences of married women in post-earthquake container settlements in Türkiye: a qualitative study	14
Correction	13
Exploring the motivations and dynamics of older French-speaking men settled in Thailand	13
Theorising masculinity, ageing, and the lived body: the case of prostate cancer	13
From stigma to solutions: harnessing local wisdom to tackle harms associated with menstrual seclusion ( chhaupadi ) in Nepal	13
Men’s Achilles’ heel: prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity	13
Understanding service preferences among consensually non-monogamous individuals seeking sexual healthcare	12
Navigating hostility: digital and social strategies among young men who have sex with men in Southern Nigeria	12

A systems model of the factors reinforcing sexual and reproductive health provider stigma: practical implications for interventions	12
‘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	11
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	11
Pre-migration trauma and post-migration health burdens among sexuality and gender minority forced migrants: an exploratory qualitative study	10
Living in a liminal space: Experiences of 2SLGBTQ + official language minority Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
‘ Just get a clearer idea of who I am ’ : LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of abortion care in Aotearoa New Zealand following law reform	10
A qualitative community health assessment of HIV prevention awareness in a semi-rural Latinx seasonal farm working community in South Florida	10
The dual faces of polygyny and ageing in Ghana: cultural status vs. social strain	10
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	10
Experience of menstruation with the use of reusable menstrual products: a qualitative study among menstruators in Israel	10
Female genital cosmetic surgery in Indonesia: a qualitative analysis of medical advertising on Instagram	10
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	9
Invisible survivors: sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant women in French Guiana	9
Boys’ perspectives on girls’ marriage and school dropout: a qualitative study revisiting a structural intervention in Southern India	9
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men’s chemsex practices	9
Lateral violence and its effects on the health of sexual minority pre-service teachers in township schools in South Africa	9
Identifications in flux: sexual-minority women’s healthcare encounters viewed through the lens of identitarian articulations	9
“A sweet in a polythene is not sweet”: men’s perceptions of their roles and experiences with family planning in East Uganda	9
Narratives of gender identity and invisible difficulties: interviews with Japanese Josōsha and Josōsha Aikō Dansei	9
Risk reconsidered: insights from a data saturation analysis of sexual health research amongst gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men	9
‘To be vigilant to leave no trace’: secrecy, invisibility and abortion travel from the Republic of Ireland	9
Reconciling intimacy and safety: a qualitative systematic review of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation among gay and bisexual men	8
‘It would be a problem for the family’: queerness, family honour and familism in Chile	8
Intersections between culture, contraception, knowledge and the body in the USA	8
‘I turn to my closest friends for support’: queer youth navigating mental health during COVID-19	8
Attitudes regarding the safety of in-clinic and self-managed abortion methods among the US general public in early 2022	7
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	7
‘You shoot it up your vagina and that’s supposed to heal it?’: Black women’s perceptions of vaginal steaming in the USA	7
The entangled coexistence of materiality and subjectivity: a new materialist analysis of China’s jiese community	7
Cripping and queering gender-based violence prevention: bridging disability justice, queer joy, and consent education	7
Indigenous research methods for healing sexual trauma with Cree women	7
COVID-19 responses and human rights violations among LGBTQ+ persons in Zimbabwe	7
Experiences of interpersonal violence among a diverse sample of male sex workers	7
Iatrogenic necropolitics: forced anal examinations and state-sanctioned homophobia	7
Disrupting menstrual stigma at work? A thematic analysis of menstrual leave policy announcements across five countries	7
First sexual intercourse: where did it take place? The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on the locations of initial sexual activity in university students	7
Safe abortion in Latin America: a look at abortion accompaniment collectives from the perspective of their activists	7
“Sewed girl” pronounced “virgin”: hymenoplasty and the shift in rhetoric of virginity in Iran	7
Rituals of transition during pregnancy in contemporary societies: a scoping review	7
Teenage pregnancy in Tambogrande, Peru: causes, consequences and cycles of violence and disadvantage	7
Transgender migration and displacement: the experience of khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore	7
Cultural values influencing iTaukei women’s discussion of family planning in the home	7
Beyond the surface: understanding the cultural roots of corrective rape in South African townships	7
Can dating app cultures support emotional health and well-being in future pandemics?	6
Colonial scripts and fragile queer masculinities: Brazilian gay men navigating effeminacy stigma in Canada	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	6
#WhyIDidntReport my sexual violence and its effect on social support	6
From AIDS to COVID-19, and back again	6
‘There is no option; we do not have the option to say no’: sexual consent among Ecuadorian adolescents and young women	6
Male engagement in menstrual care: evidence from boys and young men in urban slums in Mumbai	6

Understanding the increased vulnerability to sexual violence and factors that affect disclosure and support among LGBTQ+ women at a US college	6
Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution	6
Pornography-use patterns and psychosexual well-being: cultural and gender differences among partnered young people in China and the UK	5
Australian Muslim youth voices about religion and relationships and sexuality education	5
Self-care practices during the gender transition of Costa Rican transgender men	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
The intersectional social patterning of early-COVID-era digital intimacies among transgender and gender-diverse young adults: effects on peri-pandemic sexual decision-making	5
‘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	5
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women: a socio-ecological model approach	5
Sex work stigma and the recuperation of moral personhood through gendered labour: sex worker diaries in Ukraine	5
Restorative solutions for anti-LGBT victimisation experiences: potential pathways for victims’ wellbeing and key challenges and needs	5
Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations	5
Men’s understanding of three different measures of transactional sex: a cognitive interview study among men in Rakai, Uganda	5
Health intervention experiences and associated mental health outcomes in a sample of LGBTQ people with intersex variations in Australia	5
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India	5
Migrants facing intersectional vulnerability to HIV and AIDS in Switzerland: an exploratory study	5
Women are the thread: Keetoowah elders’ experiences of becoming a mother	5
The ongoing and contentious coverage of abortion in a progressive context: a long-term cross-outlet assessment of Dutch abortion news (2000–2022)	5
Perceptions of medication and procedural abortion among medication abortion patients in Mississippi, USA	5
Heterosexual ‘situationships’ and HIV exposure for sexual and gender minority persons assigned female at birth in the Western Kenyan context	5
Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health	5
Affective belonging and negotiated authenticity: Vietnamese gay men navigating sexuality, kinship and emotional health in Thailand	5
School teachers’ menstrual experiences and practices: reflections from rural Rajasthan, India	5
Exploring relationship pathways to prevent intimate partner violence among young women in Malawi	5
Cultural practices supporting early motherhood in a Ghanaian community	5
Are daughters more preferred by young people in contemporary China? Qualitative evidence from one-child generation cohorts in urban Jiangsu	5
Decolonising sexual pleasure: elevating Global South narratives in sexual health	5
Selling female pleasure: women’s adult industry and its podcasting in mainland China	4
Sexual and reproductive health and rights decision-making among Australian migrant and refugee youth: a group concept mapping study	4
Intersectional differences in access to sexual and reproductive health information among the Zezuru and Karanga peoples in Zimbabwe	4
‘Let the ladies know’: queer women’s perceptions of how gender and sexual orientation shape their eating and weight concerns	4
‘[E]ven in our fear […] we wanted to do this’: feminist organising for abortion in Africa as palimpsestic	4
Framing LGBTQ+ identities: production and reception in a Vietnamese reality talk show	4
‘We did not want to marry then, but’: understanding early marriage among Muslims in the context of the ‘Kerala model’ of development	4
Navigating lines of flight through the healthcare system: LGBTQ+ resistance and the reinvention of access	4
Digital peer support and sexual well-being after gynaecological cancer	4
Co-worker dynamics among Canadian sex workers in a stigmatised and criminalised environment	4
Navigating stigma, faith, and fear: understanding HPV vaccine acceptance among adolescent girls in rural parts of Central Ethiopia	4
Women’s experiences of needing abortion care whilst incarcerated: a systematic review of the international literature	4
Going through treatment: experiences of women who sought assisted reproductive technology treatment in five selected hospitals in Ghana	4
Pynk proverbs: peeling the layers on spirituality and public health practices in the ‘P-valley’ television series	4
Adolescents’ agency in negotiating social norms governing sexual and reproductive health services among the Nyasa people of Rural Tanzania	4
The experience of abortion for Cook Islands women: exploring the socio-cultural dimensions of abortion safety	4
Bleeding beyond binaries: a critical interpretive review of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming experiences with menstruation	4
When women’s HIV prevention becomes unstable: findings from a longitudinal qualitative study in Sierra Leone	4
Non-binary narratives: subjectivation and lived experiences in contemporary Italy	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
Unintended pregnancies in the lives of young people in Luwero, Uganda: a narrative analysis	4
How the media and audience frame abortion: a case study of Vietnamese online newspapers and readers’ comments	4
Intimacy and identity negotiation in online asexual communities: beyond normative assumptions	4
Understanding aromantic peoples’ experiences of intra-community discrimination within the Queer Community	4
Being a good boy: pup play, body image, and the self for gay, bi, trans, and queer men	4
Conditional vasectomy: public hospital gatekeeping, masculinity, and reproductive citizenship in pronatalist China	4