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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Homopopulism: A new layer of LGBTQ politics in India26
Vexed in the city: Femme Failure in the World of Carrie Bradshaw and theLong-Winded Lady26
Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China24
“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-being17
Leather nostalgia: Constructed histories of Dutch leathermen through national discourses of tolerance and white innocence16
Disabled content creators on OnlyFans: Empowerment, representation, and precarity16
Space, affect and contagious bodies: Representing HIV in 1990s Czech cinema15
Human rights and affective diplomacy: The presence and strategies of foreign embassies in LGBTQ rights activism in Japan14
Grindr? it’s a “Blackmailer’s goldmine”! The weaponization of queer data publics Amid the US–China trade conflict14
Ken Plummer: What it is to be human13
Situating queerness in Filipino experience: The bakla, the parlor, and the paglaladlad12
‘It’s a generational thing, really’. Understandings of sexual rights in a digital age11
Analysing intersex rights narratives in Spain11
“It’s kind of like a fifty-fifty”: Participant ambivalence and the queer(ed) potential of the focus group method11
Exploring transnational LGBT+ solidarities across the Norwegian-Russian border: The case of Barents Pride11
“Switch it up”: A qualitative analysis of BDSM switches11
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.; 26.910
‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project10
Sexual politics and knowledge production10
The definitional creep: Payment processing and the moral ordering of sexual content10
Controlling the narrative, examining the self: The unruly femme subjectivity of Fleabag10
Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study9
Navigating layered and dual-sourced stigmatization: Experiences of asexuality using stigma management strategies9
The Sexual Politics of hookup culture: A Black feminist intervention9
Mozambican “tolerance” toward homosexuality: Lusotropicalist myth and homonationalism9
The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan9
On reproductive straightening: Pronatalism, privatization, and queer kin in South Korea9
Book Review: Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions7
Book Review: Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century Alyson Spurgas,  Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century7
Beyond the Timeline of Progress: Comparing Online Sources with Lived LGBTQ+ Experiences in Guyana7
Quantifying sex. Sex-tracking apps and users’ practices7
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); 7
Aromanticism, asexuality, and relationship (non-)formation: How a-spec singles challenge romantic norms and reimagine family life6
“Any cosmo girl would’ve known”: Collaboration, feminine knowledge, and Femme theory in Legally Blonde6
Bye bye romance, welcome reputation: An analysis of the digital enclosure of dating6
Sexual Datafication6
Midwifery and sexuality: Why do midwives need a deeper understanding? GeuensSamPolona MivšekAnaGianottenWoet L. Midwifery & Sexuality. Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2023, pp., ISBN: 978-3-031-18436
“Too weak to fight, too scared to scream”: Understanding experiences of sexual coercion of Black female adolescents through digital storytelling6
Live play, live sex: The parallel labors of video game live streaming and webcam modeling6
Design as sexual practice: The visual culture of social apps and HIV risk in Taiwan6
Fighting bisexual erasure with a double-edged sword: Experiences of successful and unsuccessful bisexual visibilities6
Forming brown commons through queer joy in butiki/baboy: A pride conversation series6
Cum together: Sexual interaction, sexual sharing, and sex education in Suck magazine, 1969-19746
Heteronormative silences and queer resistance in queer people’s experiences of eldercare and home5
Sexuality and sexual violence: A qualitative study exploring the perspectives of sexuality educators and sexual violence professionals5
Love, Simon and failure: Challenging normative discourses and femmephobia in gay youth representations5
Book Review: Sexuality: From Intimacy to Politics5
Plastic fantastic: Sex robots and/as sexual fantasy5
Using the stigma engagement strategy in interviews with men who pay for sex5
‘Synced as a couple’: Responsibility, control and connection in accounts of using wireless sex devices during heterosex5
“Were in this together” - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants: Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality5
Book Review: Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System5
The persistence and endurance of blood family5
Mainstream novelty: Examining the shifting visibility of drag performance5
Stepping off the ‘relationship escalator’. A spatial perspective on residential arrangements of consensually non-monogamous parents5
‘Maybe I’m a quiet activist’: Sex work scholars and negotiations of ‘minor’ academic-activism5
Erotic capabilities: A feminist analysis of sexual justice and pleasure in heterosexual sex partying5
Platformized production of homonationalism: An ethnography of queer media production in China5
Trans women’s status in contemporary Iran: Misrecognition and the cultural politics of aberu4
Corrigendum to “Digital intimacies: Queer men and smartphones in times of crisis: A roundtable discussion”4
Book Review: The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle4
“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 e4
Queer mountains: Migrant drag performers reimagining sexual citizenship in Germany4
‘Pay close attention to what my eyes are saying without having to spell it out’: Heterosexual relations and discourses of sexual communication in #MeToo commentaries4
Discrimination and normalization as an effortful social practice: An analysis of LGBTQ+ families in Germany4
“Porn is blunt […] I had way more LGBTQ+ friendly education through porn”: The experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals with online pornography4
Bold resistance: Developing tenets of femme analysis for an era of popular feminism4
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 life4
“We are in a very precarious position”: Exploring the resilience of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan4
“It’s hard to know what we should be doing”: LGBTQ+ students’ library privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic4
Exploring research gaps and future trajectories in Queer diaspora studies4
Storytelling, sociology and sexuality: Ken Plummer’s humanist narrative analysis4
Introduction – Here versus There: Beyond comparison in queer and sexuality politics3
Fields, features, and filters: how dating applications construct sexual fields and romantic and erotic capital3
Viral sensibilities: A conversation with Tim Dean3
Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires3
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
Queer kinship: Experiences of double-motherhood in Brazil3
“Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade”: Exploring LGBTI+ digital activism in Turkey3
Queer encounters: Navigating ‘gay-friendly’ neighbourhoods with (and against) cultural maps of homophobia3
We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT+ rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda3
Erratum to “Editorial by Rebecca Saunders: Sexual Datafication”3
Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art of Helen Chadwick3
Ken Plummer’s contributions to the study of sexualities and beyond3
Liveability, environment and policy: Reflections on trans student experience of entering UK higher education3
‘Send Nudes?’: Teens’ perspectives of education around sexting, an argument for a balanced approach3
Young women’s sexual agency, relationality, and vulnerability: The Israeli case study of “attacking”3
Hierarchies in heterosexuality: Orgasms, intercourse and sexual scripts3
Book review: AIDS & Representation: Queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America3
A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments3
More like a woman: Activa/Pasiva subjectivities in Cuba3
The intersection of queer theory and transgender sexuality: Why new conceptualisations are needed3
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
When Illness Is a Crime: Book Review of Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness3
Both because of and in spite of: Towards the reclamation of queercrip joy3
Transgender HIV activism in Eastern Europe and Central Asia2
What’s identity got to do with it? The social life of sexual identity in the Netherlands2
Homonationalism across borders. Exploring cross-border exchange and strategic homonationalism in the construction of progressive nationalism2
‘For us it’s our life!’ – Queer utopian imaginaries in times of pandemic2
Gender, sexuality and race: An intersectional analysis of racial consumption and exclusion in Birmingham’s gay village2
A vaccine for everyone? Biosexual citizenship, LGBTQ+ health and sexual practice in HPV vaccination policy-settings for “high-risk groups”2
Aging out: Place and sexuality2
Book Review: Everyday Violence: The Public Harassment of Women and LGBTQ People2
The ‘good gay’ versus chemsex: The articulation of a homonormative response2
The unspeakable queerness in Romania’s communist period: Lesbian and queer accounts beyond gay men’s experiences2
Hypercategorization and hypersexualization: How webcam platforms organize performers and performances2
LGBTQ radical activism in the Lebanese Revolution2
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
Introduction to the special issue “Mobilising queer joy: Establishing queer joy studies”2
Editorial on Ken Plummer2
“A very risky queer thing to do”: In conversation with Ken Plummer2
The Elle Woods effect: Being “girled” while reclaiming girliness2
“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 debates2
Staging dyke cruising encounters in 1980s and 1990s London2
Queer aesthetics and Confucian legacy in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong, novel, 2019) and “Goodbye Mother” (Trinh Dinh Le Minh, movie, 2019)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
Book Review: Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living2
Domesticity and the construction of intimacy: Producing the erotic body and self within ‘the love nest’2
“It definitely was consensual, but…”: Normative tensions about gendered heterosexuality and young women’s mixed feelings about sex2
Vanilla normies and fellow pervs: Boundary work on sexual platforms2
Managing intimacy: How sex workers negotiate boundaries on webcam platforms2
Becoming aware of your gender and sexual identity: Narrative experiences, intersecting identities, and healthcare implications2
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture2
More bottoms than tops? Mediated sexual roles and masculinity assemblage in Chinese gay communities2
Ken Plummer: My Intellectual Enlightenment2
Exploring the uncomfortable topic of women who engage in child sexual abuse material offenses: How are they represented in the media?2
Lingering longer: Performance, queer of color joy, and Baltimore’s VERSION1
Book Review: Studying Gender in Medieval Europe1
New directions for asexual geographies1
“I don’t need advice but I will take it”: Allied labor in transgender allyship1
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
U.S. Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: the limits of a sexual rights strategy for polyamorous parents1
‘Eko; Eko; Azarak’: Witchcraft, medieval gibberish and queer untranslatability in High Magic’s Aid1
K-pop Fandom’s affective role in shaping knowledge of gender and sexuality among LGBTQ+ fans in Australia and the Philippines1
Memoirs of impossible identities: Exploring biographical narratives of gay ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses1
Book Review: Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam1
Book Review: Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private1
Mediated risk: A qualitative exploration of students’ experiences flirting online1
How homophobic propaganda produces vernacular prejudice in authoritarian states1
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: Producing the acceptable sex worker Easterbrook-Smith, G. Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker: An Analysis of Media Representations. Germany: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022. 211
Scalar tensions and the representation of the queer Spanish nation-state: A thematic analysis of Drag Race Spain1
Sexual wellbeing of sexual minority men living in poverty in Hong Kong1
The Black pill pipeline: A process-tracing analysis of the Incel’s continuum of violent radicalization1
The politics of everyday life as a sex worker: “Affect”, stigma and resistance1
Corrigendum to “Changeable sexualities and fluid masculinities: The intersections of sexual fluidity with hegemonic masculinity”1
The aesthetic labour of polycystic ovarian syndrome: The strife of heteronormative standards and the possibilities of queering1
Book Review: Queering law and order: LGBTQ communities and the criminal justice system1
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 1
Women engaging with huangwen: Women-oriented huangwen as an intimate counterpublic sphere1
Exploring kinship and the desire to be parents in Spanish same-sex couples1
Sex as self-injury: The appearance of a new diagnostic category in Sweden1
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 spectre of docking in circumcision debates1
Queerying consent: Romantic relationship scripts, rape myths, and the ‘sex game gone wrong’1
Mobile intimacies? Uncertainty, ambivalence and fluidity in the intimate practices of dating app users in Germany and the UK1
Creating ‘relational leeway’ for implicit activism: Taiwanese lesbians’ coming out experiences and identity management within families1
Solving puzzles, playing games: The potential and pitfalls of entertainment education in teaching about sexuality1
Cruising homotopia: Radical pragmatism, critical presentism, and the PFLAG China Rainbow Cruise1
Between commodified and improvisational pleasures: Uses and experiences of sextech by queer, trans, and nonbinary people in Sweden and Australia1
Book Review: The Tenacity of the Couple Norm: Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe1
Homo narrans: A transdisciplinary reading of Ken Plummer’s narrative sociology1
Resisting and transgressing cisheteronormativity at home: LGBT+ youths’ active strategies1
Pregnancy and babies versus penises and intercourse: Gender differences in ‘how babies are made’ according to children at two Spanish primary schools1
Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children1
Is India’s rape crisis a recent phenomenon? At the crossroads of religious nationalism, caste, and gender1
Stretched kinship: Queer female university students negotiating family and identity1
Queering deportability: The racial and gendered politics of lesbian anti-deportation activism1
Book Review: Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity1
Scandinavian design . The continuous closet and queer refugees in Denmark1
Toward a “crip” sociology of fucking1
Anu’s story: Unpacking the conflation of sex work and sex trafficking1
Fangirling and a sociology of fucking1
Stigma, invisibility and unattainable ‘choices’ in sex work1
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