Journal of Sex Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Sex Research is 6. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Elevated Psychiatric Risk in Same-Sex Married Individuals: Large-scale Evidence is Consistent with a Substantial Role of Familial Common Causes50
What to Expect When You’re Expecting: Perinatal Sexual Education Is Linked with Couples’ Sexual Well-Being in Pregnancy and the Postpartum41
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 Sexting40
“We’re Not Trained … and We’re the First Point of Contact”: The Emotional Overtime of Faculty Responding to Student Disclosures of Sexual Assault39
Sexual Consent, Alcohol Use, and Greek Membership: Testing Measurement Invariance and Group Mean Differences of Two Sexual Consent Measures38
Context Matters: Moderating Effects in the Associations between Pornography Use, Perceived Addiction, and Relationship Well-being30
Identity and Relational Factors Associated with Sexual Role and Positioning for Anal Sex among Colombian Sexual Minority Men24
Religiosity, Sex Frequency, and Sexual Satisfaction in Britain: Evidence from the Third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal)24
Partner Knowledge of Solitary Pornography Use: Daily and Longitudinal Associations with Relationship Quality23
Understanding Refusals, Using Coercion: Young Men’s Understanding and Use of Normalized Sexualized Violence within Heterosex23
What do States Recommend We Teach Adolescents about Sexual Consent? A Content Analysis of K-12 Health Education Standards in the US21
“It’s Almost Boring When It Should Be Enjoyable and Fun”: College Students’ Definitions of Bad Sex21
Relational and Trait Factors Mediate the Associations between Women’s Intoxication-Related Unwanted Sexual Experiences, Pleasure, and Desire20
Feasibility Cues during a Sexual Encounter Impact the Strength of Heterosexual Women’s Orgasm Goal Pursuit20
Exploring the Orgasm Gap Across Racial/Ethnic Groups: A Descriptive Analysis20
Fisting Subjectivity: Narratives of Sexual Subjectivity Among Gay Fist-Fuckers18
Multidimensional Perfectionism and Sexual Difficulties Among Adult Couples: A Dyadic Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study18
Meta-Analyzing People’s Self-Disclosure of Sexual Information to Romantic Partners18
Receipt of Coercive Condom Use Resistance: A Scoping Review17
Understanding Openness to Involvement in Sexual Health Care Research: Narratives from a Sample of Black College Women in the United States17
A Psychometric Study of a Trait and State Assessment of Sexual Pleasure – The Amsterdam Sexual Pleasure Inventory17
“No Asians” Because “No Femmes”? Racial Preferences in Gay White Australian Men and Their Relationship with Preferences for Masculinity and Femininity16
New Year, New Initiatives for the Journal of Sex Research16
Motivation, Appearance Focus, and Exclusion on Gay Dating App “Blued” in China: Content and Network Analysis of Textual Self-Presentation16
Exploring the Validity of a Modified Version of the SES-SFV with Students Attending Northern Irish Universities15
Exploring Reflections, Motivations, and Experiential Outcomes of First Same-Sex/Gender Sexual Experiences among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Individuals15
A Qualitative Study of Women’s Experiences with Cognitive-Behavioral and Mindfulness-Based Online Interventions for Low Sexual Desire14
Bisexual People Experience Worse Health Outcomes in England: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Survey in Primary Care14
Navigating Conflicting Ideals of Masculinity: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Male Partners of Women with Vulvodynia14
Public Stigmatizing Reactions Toward Nonoffending Pedophilic Individuals Seeking to Relieve Sexual Arousal14
Sexual Risk Taking among Survivors of U.S. Military Sexual Assault: Associations with PTSD Symptom Severity and Alcohol Use14
LGBTQI Sexual Well-Being and Embodiment After Cancer: A Mixed-Methods Study14
Virtual Reality Could Help Assess Sexual Aversion Disorder13
Norms, Trust, and Backup Plans: U.S. College Women’s Use of Withdrawal with Casual and Committed Romantic Partners13
Sex or Socialization? Replicating Heterosexual Couples’ Gender Differences in the Association between Orgasm and Satisfaction in Same-Gender/Sex Couples13
Dyadic Profiles of Sexual Satisfaction among Chinese Newlywed Couples over Time13
Behavioral Measures to Assess Adolescent Sexual Communication with Partners: A Scoping Review and Call for Further Studies13
Masturbation Trajectories from Late Adolescence into Mid-Adulthood: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study13
“I Was Worshiped and in Control”: Sugar Arrangements Involving Transactional Sex from the Perspective of Both Sugar Babies and Sugar Benefactors13
Being Responsive and Self-Determined When it Comes to Sex: How and Why Sexual Motivation is Associated with Satisfaction and Desire in Romantic Relationships12
Correction12
From the U.S. to Denmark and Beyond: It’s Time to Reimagine the Use of Control Variables in Observational Research12
Romeo & Juliet Laws: Investigating UK Public Perceptions of Young Consensual Sex and the Effects of Age Gaps and Perpetrator and Respondent Gender12
Preliminary Evidence of Validity for the Verbally Pressured and Illegal Sexual Exploitation Modules of the Sexual Experiences Survey-Victimization12
The Role of Dyadic Sexual Desire Similarity in Predicting Sexual Behaviors in Cohabitating Couples: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study12
Fixed or Fluid? Sexual Identity Fluidity in a Large National Panel Study of New Zealand Adults12
Disclosure of Sexually Transmitted Infections to Sexual Partners: A Systematic Critical Literature Review12
The Roots and Fruits of Masculinity: Social Antecedents and Sexual Relationship Consequences of Young Men’s Adherence to Masculine Norms11
Variable Sexual Satisfaction in Pregnancy: A Latent Profile Analysis of Pregnant Wives and Their Husbands11
Sexual Education as a Dynamic Multisource Process: A Qualitative Examination of Sexual Education Experiences in a Sample of U.S. College Students11
“We’re Just Tired”: Influences on Sexual Activity Among Male-Partnered Women in Midlife; A Mixed Method Study11
Communicating Sex Work Online: A Content Analysis of Client and Provider Discourse in r/SexWorkers11
Engagement with Emerging Forms of Sextech: Demographic Correlates from a National Sample of Adults in the United States11
Correction11
Epistemic Exclusion and Invisibility in Sex Research: Revisiting the WEIRD Dichotomy11
The Development of the Positive Sexuality in Adolescence Scale (PSAS)10
Looking Beyond the Chair: Psycho-Perceptual Predictors of Sexual Distress and Sexual Satisfaction in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury10
Christine Elizabeth Kaestle: January 28, 1972 to July 16, 202010
Racial Preferences in the Intimate Sphere Elicit Negative Reactions in Heterosexual Racial Minority and Majority Group Members10
Gynephilic Men’s and Androphilic Women’s Visual Attention Patterns: The Effects of Gender and Sexual Activity Cues10
Changing Sexual Attitudes in China, 2010 to 2021: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis10
Is Spontaneous Sex Ideal? Beliefs and Perceptions of Spontaneous and Planned Sex and Sexual Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships10
The Role of Ageist Sexual Stereotypes in the Network of Sexual Difficulties, Sex and Relationship Satisfaction Among Adults Aged 50+10
Sexual Minority Men’s Perspectives and Experiences of Adolescent Pregnancy Risk and Pregnancy Prevention Behaviors10
Generational Differences in Sexual Health Education Experiences Among LGBTQ+ Adolescents and Adults: Findings from a U.S. National Probability Sample10
Pornography and Sociosexual Attitudes and Behaviors in a Nationally Representative Survey: Potential Pandemic and Method Effects10
Online Sexual Partner Seeking as a Social Practice: Qualitative Evidence from the 4th British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-4)10
Proxemic Behaviors During Gay/Straight Interactions: An Automated Analysis Through Kinect Depth-Sensing Camera9
“I’ll Be That One Cockblocking Friend”: Understanding Student Experiences of Bystander Intervention in Alcohol-Related Sexual Assault9
Conceptualizing Sexual Wellbeing: A Qualitative Investigation to Inform Development of a Measure (Natsal-SW)9
Why Do People Watch Pornography? Cross-Cultural Validation of the Pornography Use Motivations Scale (PUMS) and Its Short Form (PUMS-8)9
Sex Surveys in Europe: Reflections on over Four Decades of Sexual Behavior and Sexual Health Surveillance9
Trends and the Gender Gap in the Reporting of Sexual Initiation Among 15-Year-Olds: A Comparison of 33 European Countries9
Gender Differences in Sexual Violence Perpetration Behaviors and Validity of Perpetration Reports: A Mixed-Method Study9
But Do Porn Sites Get More Traffic than TikTok, OpenAI, and Zoom?9
A Content Analysis of Reasons for Disclosing Sexual Fantasies and Partner Responses9
Sexual Health Education Experiences and Recommendations from the Perspective of LGBTQ+ Youth9
The Interplay of Sexual Arousal and Power-Related Emotions in Men’s Alcohol-Involved Sexual Aggression Intentions9
A Dyadic Analysis of Sexual Assertiveness and Sexual Outcomes in Adolescent Romantic Relationships9
Publisher’s Note9
Rose Colored Glasses: An Exploration of the Relationship between Sexual Nostalgia and Sexual Satisfaction8
‘They’re Much Too young’: The Entanglement of Porn, Pleasure and Age in Sex Education8
Sexual Activity as Self-Injury: A Scoping Review8
Pathways from College Students’ Cognitive Scripts for Consensual Sex to Sexual Victimization: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study8
Correlates of Mpox Vaccination among Sexual Minority Men in the United States: Sexual Behavior, Substance Use, and Main Partner Relationships8
Gayzing Women’s Bodies: Criticisms of Labia Depend on the Gender and Sexual Orientation of Perceivers8
Negative Sexual Experiences Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men Using GPS-Enabled Hook-Up Apps and Websites8
Both Hostile and Benevolent Sexism Predict Men’s Infidelity8
“The Nurse Told Her to Get Checked More Regularly Because She is Having Sex with Black Men”: An Exploration of the Sexual Health Experiences of Black Heterosexual Men in London8
Is Regulatory Focus Related to Condom Use, STI/HIV Testing, and Sexual Satisfaction?8
Been There, Done That: The Impact of the Novelty of Penile Vaginal Intercourse (PVI) and Participants’ Sex on Delay and Probability Discounting of PVI7
The Effects of Prostate Cancer Treatment on Role-In-Sex in Gay and Bisexual Men: Mixed Methods Results from the Restore-1 and Restore-2 Studies7
Put Me in Your Shoes: Does Perspective-Taking Inoculate Against the Appeal of Alternative Partners?7
Stability and Change in Asexuality: Relationship Between Sexual/Romantic Attraction and Sexual Desire7
“Female Top, Male Bottom”: Gendered Power Dynamics in Sexual and Romantic Relationships within “Fourth Love” Community in China7
Men’s Sexual Interest in Feminine Trans Individuals across Cultures7
An International Survey of BDSM Practitioner Demographics: The Evolution of Purpose for, Participation in, and Engagement with, Kink Activities7
The Sexual Function Evaluation Questionnaire (SFEQ) to Evaluate Effectiveness of Treatment for Sexual Difficulties: Development and Validation in a Clinical Sample7
The Question of Moral Worth in a Controversial Market: Moral Justification Regimes and Boundary Work Among Israeli Men Who Pay for Sex Abroad7
The Link Between Sexual Disagreements and Separation Proneness: Differences Between Men and Women in a Culturally Diverse Sample7
A Systematic Review of Black American Same-Sex Couples Research: Laying the Groundwork for Culturally-Specific Research and Interventions7
How Do Women and Men Negotiate Sex in Later Life Relationships? A Qualitative Analysis of Data from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging7
“You’re Gay, It’s Just What Happens”: Sexual Minority Men Recounting Experiences of Unwanted Sex in the Era of MeToo7
Examining Attentional Biases Elicited by Sexual Stimuli Using MouseView.js: An Online Paradigm to Mimic Eye Movements7
Which Came First, the Money or the Sex? Bidirectional, Indirect Associations between Financial Management Behaviors and Sexual Satisfaction among Newlywed Couples7
Definitions of Having Sex in Older Men and Women and Their Relationship with Sexual Well-Being7
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer+ Patients’ Preferences for Contraceptive Counseling and Experiences of Coercion in Contraceptive Care7
Navigating the Role of LGBTQ+ Identity in Self-Disclosure and Strategies Used for Uncertainty Reduction in Online Dating6
Sanctioning Sex Work: Examining Generational Differences and Attitudinal Correlates in Policy Preferences for Legalization6
The Role of Men’s Sexual Beliefs on Sexual Function/Dysfunction: A Systematic Review6
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 Adults6
Annual Review of Sex Research 2022: Editor’s Introduction6
Identifying Correlates of Peer and Faculty/Staff Sexual Harassment in US Students6
“I’ve Learned to Convert My Sensations into Sounds”: Understanding During-Sex Sexual Communication6
“I Feel More Masculine Having Sex with a Woman Than Being Fucked by a Man”: Masculinity and Bisexual Men's Experiences of Sex with Women and Men6
Darling, Come Lay with Me or Talk with Me: Perceived Mattering and the Complementary Association between Sex and Communication within Marital Relationships6
Is Sexting More of a Virtual or Gender Challenge? Factors Behind Non-Consensual Forwarding Among Adolescents6
An Agent-Based Model of Sex and Sexual Orientation Differences in Short-Term Mating Behaviors as a Result of Mating Preferences6
Commentary on “Same-Sex Marriage and Common Mental Health Diagnoses: A Sibling Comparison and Adoption Approach”6
Conceptualizing Consent: Cross-national and Temporal Representations of Sexual Consent in Young Africans’ Creative Narratives on HIV6
“For Me, It’s Having Something Meaningful”: Women’s Emotional Understandings of Sex and the Sexual Acceptability of Contraception6
Non-Consensual Sex and Help-Seeking Behavior Among PrEP Users in Belgium: Findings from an Online Survey6
An Exploratory Study of Online Early Sexual Initiation through Pressured and Unwanted Sexting6
Fluidity in Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Identity in Transgender and Nonbinary Youth6
Dominants, Submissives, and Bottom-up Text Analysis: Exploring BDSM Roles Through Romantic and Erotic Narratives6
Critical Consciousness and Sex Positivity: Opinions on Race Play within Alternate Sexuality Communities6
Childhood Experiences and Mental Health of Sexual Minority Adults: Examining Three Models6
The Sexual Rights of Others: Majoritized Women’s Support for Marginalized Women’s Sexual Rights6
College Students’ Experiences of Dating App Facilitated Sexual Violence and Associations with Mental Health Symptoms and Well-Being6
Emotional Reactions to High-Risk Sex among Sexual Minority Men: Exploring Potential Opportunities for Just-In-Time Intervention6
Leveraging Resilience-supportive Strategies to Enhance Protective Factors in Young Sexual Minority Men: A Scoping Review of HIV Behavioral Interventions Implemented in High-income Countries6
Particularly in Highly Developed and More Gender Egalitarian Societies: Sex Differences in Attitudes Towards Homosexuality6
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