Sexualities

Papers
(The median citation count of Sexualities is 1. 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
Leather nostalgia: Constructed histories of Dutch leathermen through national discourses of tolerance and white innocence34
Disabled content creators on OnlyFans: Empowerment, representation, and precarity34
Vexed in the city: Femme Failure in the World of Carrie Bradshaw and theLong-Winded Lady25
Navigating desire: Sexual practices of left-behind spouses in Northern Ghana22
Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China19
“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
“Switch it up”: A qualitative analysis of BDSM switches17
Space, affect and contagious bodies: Representing HIV in 1990s Czech cinema17
Human rights and affective diplomacy: The presence and strategies of foreign embassies in LGBTQ rights activism in Japan17
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
The definitional creep: Payment processing and the moral ordering of sexual content12
‘It’s a generational thing, really’. Understandings of sexual rights in a digital age12
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
“On a eu chaud”: Digital resistance and community solidarity during the 2024 anti-Woubi crisis in Côte d’Ivoire11
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
Controlling the narrative, examining the self: The unruly femme subjectivity of Fleabag10
The Sexual Politics of hookup culture: A Black feminist intervention10
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
On reproductive straightening: Pronatalism, privatization, and queer kin in South Korea9
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
Book Review: Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions8
‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project8
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
Sexual Datafication7
“Any cosmo girl would’ve known”: Collaboration, feminine knowledge, and Femme theory in Legally Blonde7
‘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
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
“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
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
Male homosexual identities under transformation: Revisiting a Mexican community4
A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments4
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
More like a woman: Activa/Pasiva subjectivities in Cuba4
Young women’s sexual agency, relationality, and vulnerability: The Israeli case study of “attacking”4
Erratum to “Editorial by Rebecca Saunders: Sexual Datafication”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
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
‘Send Nudes?’: Teens’ perspectives of education around sexting, an argument for a balanced approach4
“It’s hard to know what we should be doing”: LGBTQ+ students’ library privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic4
Queer encounters: Navigating ‘gay-friendly’ neighbourhoods with (and against) cultural maps of homophobia4
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
Ken Plummer’s contributions to the study of sexualities and beyond3
Queer kinship: Experiences of double-motherhood in Brazil3
Gender, sexuality and race: An intersectional analysis of racial consumption and exclusion in Birmingham’s gay village3
Through the sounds of Liniker: The portrayal of desire by a black Brazilian queer artist3
Becoming aware of your gender and sexual identity: Narrative experiences, intersecting identities, and healthcare implications3
“It definitely was consensual, but…”: Normative tensions about gendered heterosexuality and young women’s mixed feelings about sex3
Introduction: Queer immunities/immunologies, queer virology3
Weak chemsex as cultural scripts: Understanding how Chinese gay men narrate sexualised drug use3
Book Review: Sexuality and the rise of China: The post-1990s Gay generation in Hong Kong KongTravis SK, Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainlan3
“A very risky queer thing to do”: In conversation with Ken Plummer3
Editorial on Ken Plummer3
‘For us it’s our life!’ – Queer utopian imaginaries in times of pandemic3
Corrigendum to “Viral Sensibilities: A Conversation with Tim Dean”3
Introduction to the special issue “Mobilising queer joy: Establishing queer joy studies”3
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture3
Gender, Islam and sexuality in contemporary Indonesia ArnezMonikaBudiantaMelani, Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia, 2024, Singapore: Springer, XVII+220 pp., £44.99 hardcover, ISBN:3
A vaccine for everyone? Biosexual citizenship, LGBTQ+ health and sexual practice in HPV vaccination policy-settings for “high-risk groups”3
Both because of and in spite of: Towards the reclamation of queercrip joy3
Dirty work, emotion work and safety work. Experiencing rape threats as a feminist researcher3
Vanilla normies and fellow pervs: Boundary work on sexual platforms3
“Defend your children, they can be taken by two gay men”: A scoping review of the conflating and diversionary discourses used in same-sex marriage debates3
Aging out: Place and sexuality3
Liveability, environment and policy: Reflections on trans student experience of entering UK higher education3
The Elle Woods effect: Being “girled” while reclaiming girliness3
Staging dyke cruising encounters in 1980s and 1990s London2
Domesticity and the construction of intimacy: Producing the erotic body and self within ‘the love nest’2
(Trans)formative discomfort: What can a queer darkroom do to unsettle affective gender inequalities?2
More bottoms than tops? Mediated sexual roles and masculinity assemblage in Chinese gay communities2
Transgender HIV activism in Eastern Europe and Central Asia2
Dissident performances of black queer & trans desire in Zimbabwe2
“I don’t need advice but I will take it”: Allied labor in transgender allyship2
Ken Plummer: My Intellectual Enlightenment2
Book Reviews: Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire Winter HanC., Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire 2
Book Review: Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living2
Queering political representation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and opportunities in an LGBTI+ South-South/North-South network2
The ‘good gay’ versus chemsex: The articulation of a homonormative response2
Book Review: Everyday Violence: The Public Harassment of Women and LGBTQ People2
Exploring the uncomfortable topic of women who engage in child sexual abuse material offenses: How are they represented in the media?2
Book Review: Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry JonesAngela, Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry. New York: New York University Press, New York, 20202
The unspeakable queerness in Romania’s communist period: Lesbian and queer accounts beyond gay men’s experiences2
Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children2
LGBTQ radical activism in the Lebanese Revolution2
Homonationalism across borders. Exploring cross-border exchange and strategic homonationalism in the construction of progressive nationalism2
What’s identity got to do with it? The social life of sexual identity in the Netherlands2
Erotic habitus and collapsed masculinity in male-dominated spaces: The case of the no Fap relapse spaces2
Gendered machines in film and television: How ‘post-’ femininities and masculinities challenge the gender binary2
Queer aesthetics and Confucian legacy in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong, novel, 2019) and “Goodbye Mother” (Trinh Dinh Le Minh, movie, 20192
Pregnancy and babies versus penises and intercourse: Gender differences in ‘how babies are made’ according to children at two Spanish primary schools2
Stretched kinship: Queer female university students negotiating family and identity2
‘Eko; Eko; Azarak’: Witchcraft, medieval gibberish and queer untranslatability in High Magic’s Aid2
Hypercategorization and hypersexualization: How webcam platforms organize performers and performances2
Managing intimacy: How sex workers negotiate boundaries on webcam platforms2
Queerying consent: Romantic relationship scripts, rape myths, and the ‘sex game gone wrong’1
Women engaging with huangwen: Women-oriented huangwen as an intimate counterpublic sphere1
The politics of everyday life as a sex worker: “Affect”, stigma and resistance1
Resisting and transgressing cisheteronormativity at home: LGBT+ youths’ active strategies1
Empowerment or exploitation? An analysis of young women’s experiences in compensated dating1
Fangirling and a sociology of fucking1
How homophobic propaganda produces vernacular prejudice in authoritarian states1
Homo narrans : A transdisciplinary reading of Ken Plummer’s narrative sociology1
Cruising homotopia: Radical pragmatism, critical presentism, and the PFLAG China Rainbow Cruise1
Lingering longer: Performance, queer of color joy, and Baltimore’s VERSION1
Book Review: Producing the acceptable sex worker Easterbrook-Smith, G. Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker: An Analysis of Media Representations. Germany: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022. 211
The Black pill pipeline: A process-tracing analysis of the Incel’s continuum of violent radicalization1
Mobile intimacies? Uncertainty, ambivalence and fluidity in the intimate practices of dating app users in Germany and the UK1
The trouble with queer fashion: Ambivalence, visibility, and the meanings of ‘queer’ among London-based LGBTIQ creatives1
Solving puzzles, playing games: The potential and pitfalls of entertainment education in teaching about sexuality1
Mediated risk: A qualitative exploration of students’ experiences flirting online1
The aesthetic labour of polycystic ovarian syndrome: The strife of heteronormative standards and the possibilities of queering1
“On the edge of sustainable”: LGBTQ+ researchers’ experiences of harm, fear, and community1
Book Review: Queering law and order: LGBTQ communities and the criminal justice system1
The big picture: Representation of LGBTQ characters and themes in picture books available in the United States 1972-20181
The spectre of docking in circumcision debates1
‘To raise a village, fall far from the tree’: Methods for queer kinship pasts, presents and futures1
Book Review: Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private1
Corrigendum to “Changeable sexualities and fluid masculinities: The intersections of sexual fluidity with hegemonic masculinity”1
Memoirs of impossible identities: Exploring biographical narratives of gay ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses1
Creating ‘relational leeway’ for implicit activism: Taiwanese lesbians’ coming out experiences and identity management within families1
Toward a “crip” sociology of fucking1
Book Review: Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth Savin-WilliamsRitch C. Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth, New York, NY: New York University Press, 2021; 328 pp.: $191
Book Review: Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child Ye Shana L. (2024) Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michig1
Book Review: Studying Gender in Medieval Europe1
New directions for asexual geographies1
Book Review: The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life EpsteinSteven, The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Sci1
The development of sexual selfhood in Mead’s play and game1
Book Review: Who’s Afraid of Gender? ButlerJudith. Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), Picador USA, 287 pp., ISBN 9780374608231(Hardcover) $28.00.1
The decriminalization of same-sex relations in Botswana: National, regional and international dimensions of LGBTQI+ activism1
Scandinavian design . The continuous closet and queer refugees in Denmark1
Sexual wellbeing of sexual minority men living in poverty in Hong Kong1
Anu’s story: Unpacking the conflation of sex work and sex trafficking1
Between commodified and improvisational pleasures: Uses and experiences of sextech by queer, trans, and nonbinary people in Sweden and Australia1
Scalar tensions and the representation of the queer Spanish nation-state: A thematic analysis of Drag Race Spain1
K-pop Fandom’s affective role in shaping knowledge of gender and sexuality among LGBTQ+ fans in Australia and the Philippines1
New Queer Asias: From queer studies in Asia to queer theory from Asia1
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