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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ambivalent, discontent, and sceptical: Marginalised queer lives in the post-same-sex marriage era in Taiwan29
K-pop Fandom’s affective role in shaping knowledge of gender and sexuality among LGBTQ+ fans in Australia and the Philippines28
The affective toll of COVID-19 on queer joy: A study of young people in Toronto, Melbourne and New York22
“Porn is blunt […] I had way more LGBTQ+ friendly education through porn”: The experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals with online pornography21
Is India’s rape crisis a recent phenomenon? At the crossroads of religious nationalism, caste, and gender20
‘Straight sex in porn is anything but just straight’: Exploring queer heteroporn15
Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires14
Young people becoming intimate on social media: Digital desires and gender dynamics14
Ethical intimacy: Relational work of male sex workers in Hong Kong12
Pregnancy and babies versus penises and intercourse: Gender differences in ‘how babies are made’ according to children at two Spanish primary schools12
Book Reviews: Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire10
No fats, no fems, no problems? Working out and the gay muscled body10
Stories of homoeroticism amongst male ex-combatants of illegal armed groups: Unexplored areas of the armed conflict in Colombia10
An “Academic Homosexual”: Ken Plummer and the National Deviancy Conference9
Homopopulism: A new layer of LGBTQ politics in India9
‘Eko; Eko; Azarak’: Witchcraft, medieval gibberish and queer untranslatability in High Magic’s Aid9
‘I think my body knew what it was before I did’: Affirming women’s embodied experiences as a conduit to knowing9
Editorial Introduction: Special Section on older-age migrants and sexualities9
Book Review: Reframing drag: Beyond subversion and the status Quo8
Ken Plummer: My Intellectual Enlightenment8
Affect and queer intimate entanglements in national-neoliberal Estonia8
Pleasures of the city. An essay in memory of the Danish sociologist Henning Bech8
Constructing hierarchies of victimhood: Queer male survivors' evaluations of sexual assault survivors8
Spanish gay male subjectivity, body, intimacy, and affect on Instagram8
Disabled content creators on OnlyFans: Empowerment, representation, and precarity8
Book Review: The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle8
Data like any other? Sexual and reproductive health, Big Data and the Sustainable Development Goals7
“I don’t need advice but I will take it”: Allied labor in transgender allyship7
Transpinay: Genealogy of a term7
‘I feel so much better in myself’: Exploring meaningful non-erotic outcomes of BDSM participation7
Book Review: Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur'an: Retrieving Lost Voices on Gender7
‘Abstinence is panacea’: Reconstructing the ideal of Chinese masculinity through online community6
The unspeakable queerness in Romania’s communist period: Lesbian and queer accounts beyond gay men’s experiences6
Fields, features, and filters: how dating applications construct sexual fields and romantic and erotic capital6
Vexed in the city: Femme Failure in the World of Carrie Bradshaw and theLong-Winded Lady6
Leather nostalgia: Constructed histories of Dutch leathermen through national discourses of tolerance and white innocence6
We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT+ rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda5
“Strength and courage in a wonderbra”: Femininity, drag, and the spice girls5
Viral sexualities, viral songs: Queer musical interventions in the AIDS crisis in Turkey5
“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-being5
Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China5
Book Review: The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media5
Strategic adjustments: Daily experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons in Nairobi5
Black queer femme and non-binary individuals’ polyamory: An act of liberation5
“The gay clubs are it”: An analysis of straight women’s motivations for frequenting gay bars5
U.S. Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: the limits of a sexual rights strategy for polyamorous parents5
A different kind of risky business: Men who manage men in the sex industry4
Queer encounters: Navigating ‘gay-friendly’ neighbourhoods with (and against) cultural maps of homophobia4
Consensually nonmonogamous parent relationships during COVID-194
Book review: Disability, sexuality, and gender in Asia: Intersectionality, human rights, and the law ZhangWanhongBjørnstølElisabethDingPengGaoWeiLiHanxuLiuYijun (2024) Disability, Sexuality, and Gende4
A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments4
Black people’s constructions of good sex: Describing good sex from the margins4
“Sex as a way to gain some control”: Sexual subjectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Book review: AIDS & Representation: Queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America4
“It’s hard to know what we should be doing”: LGBTQ+ students’ library privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic4
“I Didn’t Know Ace Was a Thing”: Bisexuality and pansexuality as identity pathways in asexual identity formation4
“Who is the mum? Who is the dad?”: Same-sex couples’ motivations for and experiences of parenthood3
Challenging the logic of progressive timeline, queering LGBT successes and failures in Ireland and Russia3
“It’s kind of like a fifty-fifty”: Participant ambivalence and the queer(ed) potential of the focus group method3
Phallic metaphors and metonyms: Emerging meanings of Viagra and masculinity in news media3
Exploring transnational LGBT+ solidarities across the Norwegian-Russian border: The case of Barents Pride3
Ken Plummer: What it is to be human3
Hierarchies in heterosexuality: Orgasms, intercourse and sexual scripts3
Stretched kinship: Queer female university students negotiating family and identity3
I thought we were vibin’: A qualitative exploration of sexual agency and consent in young people3
The ‘addict sexual script’: Addiction discourse among Israeli sex industry consumers3
“Switch it up”: A qualitative analysis of BDSM switches3
Book Review: The Eroticizing of HIV, Viral Fantasies (Book Review)3
Human rights and affective diplomacy: The presence and strategies of foreign embassies in LGBTQ rights activism in Japan3
Homo narrans: A transdisciplinary reading of Ken Plummer’s narrative sociology3
From allochronism to generationality: Ageism in queer communities in Belgium3
Avoidance and empowerment: How do sex workers navigate stigma?3
Living like a hetero: Southern homonormativity in Istanbul3
Corrigendum to ‘Interview with Sally R Munt, Sexualities journal’3
The definitional creep: Payment processing and the moral ordering of sexual content3
Book Review: Studying Gender in Medieval Europe3
Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children3
Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’s Homomonument and the politics of inclusive social practice3
Introduction: Special section ‘female clients of commercial sex’2
Strategies of passing: Hypervisible bodies, disrespectable affinities, and Syrian trans refugees in Lebanon2
“Boys just ruin it”: Exploring the popularity of lesbian pornography among straight women2
Journeying with Ken Plummer through radical constructionism, critical humanism and intimate counterpublics2
Book Review: Pornography: A philosophical introduction MikkolaMari, Pornography: A Philosophical Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019, 312 pp, $35.00 (US) ISBN: 97801906400712
The politics of everyday life as a sex worker: “Affect”, stigma and resistance2
Ken Plummer’s contributions to the study of sexualities and beyond2
Both because of and in spite of: Towards the reclamation of queercrip joy2
“Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade”: Exploring LGBTI+ digital activism in Turkey2
Young women’s sexual agency, relationality, and vulnerability: The Israeli case study of “attacking”2
‘It’s a generational thing, really’. Understandings of sexual rights in a digital age2
Mediated risk: A qualitative exploration of students’ experiences flirting online2
Space, affect and contagious bodies: Representing HIV in 1990s Czech cinema2
Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art of Helen Chadwick2
Performing queer loneliness in Art AIDS America (2015–17) and Queer British Art (2017)2
Queerly departed: Queer viral socialities and Caribbean migrant desires2
Do we have the right to call ourselves an inclusive university? Untold stories of queer students at a rural university in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa2
Gratitude to Ken Plummer2
Sexual peril and dangerous others: The moral economies of the trans prisoner policy debates in England and Wales2
‘Send Nudes?’: Teens’ perspectives of education around sexting, an argument for a balanced approach2
Grindr? it’s a “Blackmailer’s goldmine”! The weaponization of queer data publics Amid the US–China trade conflict2
Viral sensibilities: A conversation with Tim Dean2
Queer Asias: Genders and sexualities across borders and boundaries2
Situating queerness in Filipino experience: The bakla, the parlor, and the paglaladlad2
Introduction – Here versus There: Beyond comparison in queer and sexuality politics2
Solving puzzles, playing games: The potential and pitfalls of entertainment education in teaching about sexuality2
Orgasm as women’s work? Rethinking pleasure, ‘sex’ and the power dynamics of orgasm through the embodied experiences of orgasmic meditation practitioners2
More like a woman: Activa/Pasiva subjectivities in Cuba2
Stigma, invisibility and unattainable ‘choices’ in sex work2
Analysing intersex rights narratives in Spain2
Queering deportability: The racial and gendered politics of lesbian anti-deportation activism1
Navigating a heteronormative world: Cisgender women, transgender partnerships, sexual identity, and language1
Erotic capital and erotic dividends1
Lingering longer: Performance, queer of color joy, and Baltimore’s VERSION1
Play! A Special Issue1
The involuntary confession of euphoria: ‘Chemsex’ porn and the paradox of embodiment1
Book Review: Bi: Bisexual, pansexual, fluid, and nonbinary youth1
Memoirs of impossible identities: Exploring biographical narratives of gay ex-Jehovah’s witnesses1
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 Mainlan1
“The ultimate test of self-discipline”: Lockdown and the NoFap community1
Developing parenthood through giving birth to a dead child – bereaved lesbian mothers’ maternity care experiences in Scandinavia1
Sexual wellbeing of sexual minority men living in poverty in Hong Kong1
#MeToo, Cisheteropatriarchy and LGBTQ+ Sexual Violence on Campus1
Queer citizens and the perils of the neoliberal city: Racialized narratives of homophobic hate crime in Oslo, Norway1
Queer expectations: An empirical critique of rural LGBT+ narratives1
Controlling the narrative, examining the self: The unruly femme subjectivity of Fleabag1
Book Reviews: Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness1
I know you are but who Am I? Presentation and labelling in young queer communities1
Exploring kinship and the desire to be parents in Spanish same-sex couples1
‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project1
Mainstreaming queerness in Thai boys’ love narratives: Impact on gay identity perceptions in Bangkok’s society1
Still here, still queer? Queer lives and subjectivities in dementia care1
The Sexual Politics of hookup culture: A Black feminist intervention1
Respectable outness: Examining the coming-out narratives of Latin American Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual YouTube celebrity vloggers1
Mozambican “tolerance” toward homosexuality: Lusotropicalist myth and homonationalism1
Book Review: Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions1
Book Review: Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private1
Swedish poly utopia: Dreams, revolutions, and crushed hopes1
The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan1
Book Review: Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century Alyson Spurgas,  Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century1
Book Review: Women Resisting Sexual Violence and the Egyptian Revolution: Arab Feminist Testimonies1
BDSM and total power exchange: Between inclusion and exclusion1
Book Review: Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media1
Silencing the single woman: Negotiating the ‘failed’ feminine subject in contemporary UK society1
Book review: Pornography, ideology, and the internet: A Japanese adult video actress in Mainland China1
The courage to ‘get naked’: Stigma, disclosure and lived experience in sex work research1
Jeffrey Escoffier1
When Illness Is a Crime: Book Review of Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness1
Between commodified and improvisational pleasures: Uses and experiences of sextech by queer, trans, and nonbinary people in Sweden and Australia1
Book Review: Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism1
New directions for asexual geographies1
Proving gender and sexuality in the (homo)nationalist Greek asylum system: Credibility, sexual citizenship and the ‘bogus’ sexual other1
Critical chemsex studies: Interrogating cultures of sexualized drug use beyond the risk paradigm1
“It means freedom”: A qualitative exploration of joy among black queer folx1
‘An abundance of cakes’: Assigned female at birth queer joy and queer ethics across generations1
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture1
ERRATUM to “Quantifying sex. Sex tracking apps and users’ practices”1
Interview with Sally R Munt, Sexualities journal1
The Black pill pipeline: A process-tracing analysis of the Incel’s continuum of violent radicalization1
Queer kinship: Experiences of double-motherhood in Brazil1
Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study1
Contested intersections: Asexuality and disability, illness, or trauma1
Liveability, environment and policy: Reflections on trans student experience of entering UK higher education1
The coloniality of queer theory: The effects of “homonormativity” on transnational Taiwan’s path to equality1
Migrant workers and LGBT activism: A comparative study of Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong1
Ever more parents in polyamorous families: A new materialist typology of parenting practices and division of work1
Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness1
Do you have to have sex to have sex? Defining sex in British law and medicine from the 1950s1
The Elle Woods effect: Being “girled” while reclaiming girliness1
Play by design: The porn-viewing room in Taiwanese and Korean men’s sex saunas1
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); 1
Quantifying sex. Sex-tracking apps and users’ practices1
Cyber toy stories: The broken promises and broken parts of interactive sex toys1
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