OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sex Research is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Transactional Desire: Exploring Male Student Sex Workers in China	58
“It’s Almost Boring When It Should Be Enjoyable and Fun”: College Students’ Definitions of Bad Sex	44
Relational and Trait Factors Mediate the Associations between Women’s Intoxication-Related Unwanted Sexual Experiences, Pleasure, and Desire	40
Delphi Recommendations for Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexual Interest in Children in Non-Mandated Community Settings	35
Closing the Gender Gap? A Cohort Comparison of Adolescent Responses to and Attitudes Toward Pornography, 2004 vs. 2021	35
Exploring Parent-gender Differences in Parent and Adolescent Reports of the Frequency, Quality, and Content of Their Sexual Health Communication	34
Elevated Psychiatric Risk in Same-Sex Married Individuals: Large-scale Evidence is Consistent with a Substantial Role of Familial Common Causes	27
A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Women’s Experiences of Internalized Sociocultural Sexual Pressure	24
Sexual Consent, Alcohol Use, and Greek Membership: Testing Measurement Invariance and Group Mean Differences of Two Sexual Consent Measures	23
Longitudinal Assessment of Sexual Behavior and Relationship Quality During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Britain: Findings from a Longitudinal Population Survey (Natsal-COVID)	21
Identity and Relational Factors Associated with Sexual Role and Positioning for Anal Sex among Colombian Sexual Minority Men	21
“We’re Not Trained … and We’re the First Point of Contact”: The Emotional Overtime of Faculty Responding to Student Disclosures of Sexual Assault	21
Why College Women and Men Refrain from Sex Despite Desire: Development of the No Sex Despite Desire (NSDD) Measure	20
Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder and Problematic Pornography Use in Cisgender Sexual Minority Individuals: The Associations with Minority Stress, Social Support, and Sexualized Drug Use	19
Gender Scripts and Female Sexual Functioning: The Role of Sexual Pressure and Sexual Subjectivity	19
Sexual Passion in Adolescence: Examining Its Transmission Through Mothers	19
Women Who Experience More Affectionate Touch Report Better Body Satisfaction and Relationship Outcomes	18
Stability and Change in Asexuality: Relationship Between Sexual/Romantic Attraction and Sexual Desire	17
Which Came First, the Money or the Sex? Bidirectional, Indirect Associations between Financial Management Behaviors and Sexual Satisfaction among Newlywed Couples	15
Perceived Mate Scarcity Leads to Increased Willingness to Mate Poach	14
The Link Between Sexual Disagreements and Separation Proneness: Differences Between Men and Women in a Culturally Diverse Sample	14
Pornography Use, Offense-Supportive Cognitions, Atypical Sexual Interests, and Sexual Offending against Children	14
Definitions of Having Sex in Older Men and Women and Their Relationship with Sexual Well-Being	14
What do States Recommend We Teach Adolescents about Sexual Consent? A Content Analysis of K-12 Health Education Standards in the US	14
The Question of Moral Worth in a Controversial Market: Moral Justification Regimes and Boundary Work Among Israeli Men Who Pay for Sex Abroad	13

Understanding Refusals, Using Coercion: Young Men’s Understanding and Use of Normalized Sexualized Violence within Heterosex	13
Examining Attentional Biases Elicited by Sexual Stimuli Using MouseView.js: An Online Paradigm to Mimic Eye Movements	13
Constructing Sexual Victimization: A Thematic Analysis of Reader Responses to A Literary Female-on-Male Rape Story on Goodreads	13
Moral Reactions to Sexual Relationships that Violate Age Norms	13
Asking About “Prostitution”, “Sex Work” and “Transactional Sex”: Question Wording and Attitudes Toward Trading Sexual Services	13
Psychometric Properties of the Sexual Services Acts Materials for Pay (SSAMP) Index: Identifying the Virtual, In-Person, and Material Sex Trades for Financial Compensation	13
Context Matters: Moderating Effects in the Associations between Pornography Use, Perceived Addiction, and Relationship Well-being	12
Monosexism as an Additional Dimension of Minority Stress Affecting Mental Health among Bisexual and Pansexual Individuals in Hong Kong: The Role of Gender and Sexual Identity Integration	12
Partner Knowledge of Solitary Pornography Use: Daily and Longitudinal Associations with Relationship Quality	12
Preference for Self-Resembling Male Faces in Gay Men in China	11
Adolescent Barriers to Sexual Communication with Their Parents: Differences by Sexual and Gender Identity	11
“OMG, Yes!”: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an Online Intervention for Female Sexual Pleasure	11
Construction and Validation of a Scale to Assess Social Judgments Toward Sex Work from the Stereotype Content Model	11
Exploring the Orgasm Gap Across Racial/Ethnic Groups: A Descriptive Analysis	10
An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Women’s Experiences of Authenticity in Pornography	10
Comparing Perception of Sexual Intent and the Use of Sexual Coercion in Men and Women College Students	10
The Pattern of Physique Preferences on Gay Dating App “Blued” in China: A Multiple Group Latent Class Analysis	10
Top, Bottom, and Versatile Orientations among Adolescent Sexual Minority Men	10
Family Matters: The Impact of Traditional and Egalitarian Gender Role Messages on Sexual and Gender Minority Latinx Adults’ Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk	10
BDSM in North America, Europe, and Oceania: A Large-Scale International Survey Gauging BDSM Interests and Activities	10
Clickable Consent: How Men Who Have Sex with Men Understand and Practice Sexual Consent on Dating Apps and in Person	10
The Association between the Quantity and Severity of Pornography Use: A Meta-analysis	10
Religiosity, Perceived Effects of Pornography Use on Personal Sex Life, and Moral Incongruence: Insights from the German Health and Sexuality Survey (GeSiD)	9
Socioeconomics and Erotic Inequity: A Theoretical Overview and Narrative Review of Associations Between Poverty, Socioeconomic Conditions, and Sexual Wellbeing	9
Associations between New Mothers’ Partner-Oriented Sexual Values and Sexual Distress in the Transition to Parenthood	9
Confounds, Causality, and Sexual Orientation: The Implications of a Population-Level Study of Sibling Characteristics and Same-Sex Attraction	9
Validation of a Brief Internalized Sex-work Stigma Scale among Female Sex Workers in Kenya	9
Hormonal Underpinnings of the Variation in Sexual Desire, Arousal and Activity Throughout the Menstrual Cycle – A Multifaceted Approach	9
What to Expect When You’re Expecting: Perinatal Sexual Education Is Linked with Couples’ Sexual Well-Being in Pregnancy and the Postpartum	9
Conceptualizing Consent: Cross-national and Temporal Representations of Sexual Consent in Young Africans’ Creative Narratives on HIV	9
Our Body Our Health (Jirkeena, Caafimaadkeena): Somali Women’s Narratives on Sexual Health	9
The Impact of Pleasure and Pain on Frequent Substance Use During Receptive Anal Intercourse	9
Men’s Sexual Interest in Feminine Trans Individuals across Cultures	9
Sexual Shame and Emotion Dysregulation: Key Roles in the Association between Internalized Homonegativity and Sexual Compulsivity	9
Queering Hookup Motives in a Diverse Sample of LGBTQ+ Young Adults	9
Health Disparities by Sexual Orientation: Implications of Genetic and Environmental Explanations	9
Attraction Toward One’s Partner is Associated with Sexual Desire, Satisfaction, and Distress Among Couples Coping with Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder	9
Fairer Sex: The Role of Relationship Equity in Female Sexual Desire	9
Examination of Sex-Related Distress and Self-Medication Drinking Model in U.S. College Women	9
Put Me in Your Shoes: Does Perspective-Taking Inoculate Against the Appeal of Alternative Partners?	9
The Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence Against Adolescents in School and Community Settings: A Scoping Review	8
Large Language Models in an App: Conducting a Qualitative Synthetic Data Analysis of How Snapchat’s “My AI” Responds to Questions About Sexual Consent, Sexual Refusals, Sexual Assault, and Sexting	8
The Role of Sexual and Romantic Attraction in Human Mate Preferences	8
Concordance and Discordance between Paraphilic Interests and Behaviors: A Follow-Up Study	8
Rules (And the Lack of Rules) About Pornography Use Among Heterosexual Couples	8
Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness, Geosocial Networking App Use, and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Latinx Sexual Minority Men in the US: Acculturation as Moderator	8
Resisting Trans Medicalization: Body Satisfaction and Social Contextual Factors as Predictors of Sexual Experiences among Trans Feminine and Nonbinary Individuals	8
Preliminary Prevalence Estimates of Sexual Exploitation as Measured by the Sexual Experiences Survey-Victimization (SES-V) in a National US Sample	8
Feasibility Cues during a Sexual Encounter Impact the Strength of Heterosexual Women’s Orgasm Goal Pursuit	8
Interpersonal, Community, and Institutional Influences on Sexual Consent Among Fraternity and Sorority Students in the Context of a Hookup: A Qualitative Analysis	8

Recalled Childhood Separation Anxiety Differs by Anal Sex Role among Gay Men	8
Feeling Like a Fetish: Racialized Feelings, Fetishization, and the Contours of Sexual Racism on Gay Dating Apps	8
Religiosity, Sex Frequency, and Sexual Satisfaction in Britain: Evidence from the Third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal)	8
Reclaiming Pleasure: Does Satisfying Consensual Sexual Activity Predict Next-Day Positive Affect Among Women with a History of Sexual Assault?	7
How Much Pornography Use Do Americans Think Is “Average” for a Man and Woman? Findings from a National Survey	7
Similar Employment of Coercion Strategies by Men and Women: Links Between Conformity to Traditional Masculine Ideologies and Sexual Coercion Following Sexual Rejection	7
Feasibility of a Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy Intervention for Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder	7
Sanctioning Sex Work: Examining Generational Differences and Attitudinal Correlates in Policy Preferences for Legalization	7
A Systematic Review of Black American Same-Sex Couples Research: Laying the Groundwork for Culturally-Specific Research and Interventions	7
Commentary on “Same-Sex Marriage and Common Mental Health Diagnoses: A Sibling Comparison and Adoption Approach”	7
Locating the Risk: Using Participatory Mapping to Contextualize Perceived HIV Risk across Geography and Social Networks among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Deep South	7
Patterns of Genital and Subjective Sexual Arousal in Cisgender Asexual Men	7
Self-Disgust and Sexual Functioning: A Scenario-Based Study Testing the Ability of Sex-Related Experiences to Elicit Self-Directed Disgust	7
An Exploratory Study of Incels’ Dating App Experiences, Mental Health, and Relational Well-Being	7
The Role of Men’s Sexual Beliefs on Sexual Function/Dysfunction: A Systematic Review	7
Bisexual People Experience Worse Health Outcomes in England: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Survey in Primary Care	7
Do Sex Toys Make Me Satisfied? The Use of Sex Toys in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, and the UK	7
Multidimensional Measurement of Attitudes Toward Consensual Non-Monogamy	6
New Year, New Initiatives for the Journal of Sex Research	6
Questionnaire for Turn-on Initiation Preference: Development and Initial Reliability and Validation	6
Psychological Symptoms Associated with Sexual Victimization Experiences: Differences as a Function of the Type and Number of Sexual Acts and Aggressive Tactics	6
“No Asians” Because “No Femmes”? Racial Preferences in Gay White Australian Men and Their Relationship with Preferences for Masculinity and Femininity	6
Correction	6
Regulatory Focus and Sexual Health: Motives for Security and Pleasure in Sexuality are Associated with Distinct Protective Behaviors	6
A Qualitative Account of Coping Following Non-Consensual Sexual Experiences among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men	6
Deconstructing “Sexual Deviance”: Identifying and Empirically Examining Assumptions about “Deviant” Sexual Fantasy in the DSM	6
Associations Between Contents of Pornography and Sexual Satisfaction and Function Among Young Adults	6
Irrelevancies and Inaccuracies Miss the Target: A Response to Kingsberg et al.	6
A Vignette Study Analyzing Contextual Factors that Influence Emerging Adults’ Definitions of Virginity Loss in German-Speaking Countries	6
Editor’s Introduction	6
Body Image and Sex: A Dyadic Examination of Body Esteem and Sexual Inhibition, Obsession, and Harmony	6
“I Can Tell You Wanna F***”: A Content Analysis of Sexual Communication in Popular Song Lyrics	6
Romantic Attachment, Sex Motives and Sexual Difficulties in Emerging Adults: The Role of Childhood Interpersonal Victimization	6
Fisting Subjectivity: Narratives of Sexual Subjectivity Among Gay Fist-Fuckers	6
An Agent-Based Model of Sex and Sexual Orientation Differences in Short-Term Mating Behaviors as a Result of Mating Preferences	6
The Role of Moral Foundations in Support for Sex Work Decriminalization by Venue	6
Does the Paraphilia Scale Work for Everyone? Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Measurement Invariance Across Gender and Sexual Orientation Groups	6
“For Me, It’s Having Something Meaningful”: Women’s Emotional Understandings of Sex and the Sexual Acceptability of Contraception	6
Exploring the Psychological Characteristics and Risk-related Cognitions of Individuals Who Own Sex Dolls	6
Clients’ Perceptions of Authentic Intimate Connection on Erotic Webcam Modeling Sites	6
Annual Review of Sex Research 2022: Editor’s Introduction	6
Recruiting and Engaging Heterosexual-Identified Men Who have Sex with Men: A Brief Report of Considerations for Sex Researchers	5
The Relationship Between Topic-Specific Quality of Parent–Child Sexual Communication and Measures of Sexual Self-Concept and Sexual Subjectivity	5
Eating Disorders and Sexual Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Body Image Self-consciousness during Physical Intimacy and Dissociation	5
“I’m Better Than This”: A Qualitative Analysis of the Turning Points Leading to Exiting Inceldom	5
Christine Elizabeth Kaestle: January 28, 1972 to July 16, 2020	5
Pornography Use and Mental Health Problems in the Chinese Population: Examining the Pornography Problems Due to Moral Incongruence Model	5
U.S. Adults’ Attitudes toward Gay Individuals’ Civil Liberties, Moral Judgments of Homosexuality, Support for Same-sex Marriage, and Pornography Consumption, Revisited	5
Hot for Robots! Sexual Arousal Increases Willingness to Have Sex with Robots	5
Meta-Analyzing People’s Self-Disclosure of Sexual Information to Romantic Partners	5
I’m Sexy and I Know it: Exploring the Moderating Role of Sexual Motivations in the Relationship Between Sexual Self-Esteem and Sexual Functioning in Israeli Adults	5
Critical Consciousness and Sex Positivity: Opinions on Race Play within Alternate Sexuality Communities	5
Dominants, Submissives, and Bottom-up Text Analysis: Exploring BDSM Roles Through Romantic and Erotic Narratives	5
Cross-Cultural Validation of the Sexual Desire Inventory (SDI-2) in 42 Countries and 26 Languages	5
A Psychometric Study of a Trait and State Assessment of Sexual Pleasure – The Amsterdam Sexual Pleasure Inventory	5
Let’s Talk about Sleep Baby: Sexual Activity Postpartum and Its Links with Room Sharing, Parent Sleep, and Objectively Measured Infant Sleep and Parent Nighttime Crib Visits	5
A Theory-Based Intervention to Reduce Risk and Vulnerability Factors of Sexual Aggression Perpetration and Victimization in German University Students	5
The Sexual Rights of Others: Majoritized Women’s Support for Marginalized Women’s Sexual Rights	5
How EIRD Is Sex Research?: A Commentary and Reanalysis of Klein et al. (2021)	5
“They Want You to Kill Your Inner Queer but Somehow Leave the Human Alive”: Delineating the Impacts of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression Change Efforts	5
Adolescents’ Self Perceptions: Connecting Psychosocial Competencies to the Sexual Self-Concept	5
Sexual Enrichment Aids: A Mixed Methods Study Evaluating Use, Hygiene, and Risk Perception among Women	5
Exploring Reflections, Motivations, and Experiential Outcomes of First Same-Sex/Gender Sexual Experiences among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Individuals	5