OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sexualities is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Leather nostalgia: Constructed histories of Dutch leathermen through national discourses of tolerance and white innocence	37
Disabled content creators on OnlyFans: Empowerment, representation, and precarity	33
Vexed in the city: Femme Failure in the World of Carrie Bradshaw and the “ Long-Winded Lady ”	31
Navigating desire: Sexual practices of left-behind spouses in Northern Ghana	20
Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China	19
“Switch it up”: A qualitative analysis of BDSM switches	18
The campus and the closet: Novel expressions of interwar queerness at the University of Oxford	18
Ken Plummer: What it is to be human	15
Situating queerness in Filipino experience: The bakla, the parlor, and the paglaladlad	15
Analysing intersex rights narratives in Spain	12
‘It’s a generational thing, really’. Understandings of sexual rights in a digital age	12
Grindr? it’s a “Blackmailer’s goldmine”! The weaponization of queer data publics Amid the US–China trade conflict	12
“On a eu chaud”: Digital resistance and community solidarity during the 2024 anti-Woubi crisis in Côte d’Ivoire	12
Space, affect and contagious bodies: Representing HIV in 1990s Czech cinema	11
The definitional creep: Payment processing and the moral ordering of sexual content	11
Human rights and affective diplomacy: The presence and strategies of foreign embassies in LGBTQ rights activism in Japan	11
The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan	10
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.; 26.9	10
Controlling the narrative, examining the self: The unruly femme subjectivity of Fleabag	10
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
Quantifying sex. Sex-tracking apps and users’ practices	9
On reproductive straightening: Pronatalism, privatization, and queer kin in South Korea	9
Nonrecognition as violence: The stakes of abolitionist agendas and the invisibilization of sexual labor in Chile	9
Book Review: Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century Alyson Spurgas, Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century	9
Sexual politics and knowledge production	9

Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study	8
Mozambican “tolerance” toward homosexuality: Lusotropicalist myth and homonationalism	8
The Sexual Politics of hookup culture: A Black feminist intervention	8
Navigating layered and dual-sourced stigmatization: Experiences of asexuality using stigma management strategies	8
Book Review: Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions	7
Forming brown commons through queer joy in butiki/baboy: A pride conversation series	7
Sexual Datafication	7
Book Review: Midwifery & Sexuality: Why do midwives need a deeper understanding? GeuensSamPolona MivšekAnaGianottenWoet L. Midwifery & Sexuality: Why do midwives need a deeper understanding?Sw	7
“Too weak to fight, too scared to scream”: Understanding experiences of sexual coercion of Black female adolescents through digital storytelling	7
Book Review: Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the GenZ Era ReynoldsRachel R.PajéDaciaMedinaSiennaGiganteJohn (eds.) (2025) Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the GenZ Era. London: Routledg	7
‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project	7
“Any cosmo girl would’ve known”: Collaboration, feminine knowledge, and Femme theory in Legally Blonde	7
Cum together: Sexual interaction, sexual sharing, and sex education in Suck magazine, 1969-1974	7
Aromanticism, asexuality, and relationship (non-)formation: How a-spec singles challenge romantic norms and reimagine family life	6
Sexuality and sexual violence: A qualitative study exploring the perspectives of sexuality educators and sexual violence professionals	6
Fighting bisexual erasure with a double-edged sword: Experiences of successful and unsuccessful bisexual visibilities	6
Bye bye romance, welcome reputation: An analysis of the digital enclosure of dating	6
Heteronormative silences and queer resistance in queer people’s experiences of eldercare and home	6
Using the stigma engagement strategy in interviews with men who pay for sex	6
Beyond ‘just say no’: Safe Uncertainty and rethinking responses to image-based sexual abuse among young people	6
Corrigendum to “Introduction: Queer immunities/immunologies, queer virology”	6
Love, Simon and failure: Challenging normative discourses and femmephobia in gay youth representations	6
Trans feminism as an outsider within the neoliberal university: On trans feminism's relation to institutionalized gender and queer studies and the instrumentalization of Blackness	5
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 life	5
Trans women’s status in contemporary Iran: Misrecognition and the cultural politics of aberu	5
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: Sp	5
“Were in this together” - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants: Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality	5
Stepping off the ‘relationship escalator’. A spatial perspective on residential arrangements of consensually non-monogamous parents	5
Queer mountains: Migrant drag performers reimagining sexual citizenship in Germany	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 Effects	5
“We definitely need to be less gay”: Questions of language, queer (in)security, and sustainability for the Gay Games Hong Kong	5
Storytelling, sociology and sexuality: Ken Plummer’s humanist narrative analysis	5
Exploring research gaps and future trajectories in Queer diaspora studies	5
‘Synced as a couple’: Responsibility, control and connection in accounts of using wireless sex devices during heterosex	5
Queer life beyond major cities: Cross-platform digital practices among lesbian women in non-metropolitan China	5
“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 e	5
Platformized production of homonationalism: An ethnography of queer media production in China	5
Bold resistance: Developing tenets of femme analysis for an era of popular feminism	5
Coming of ace: Visualizing asexual adulthood in teen TV	5
Discrimination and normalization as an effortful social practice: An analysis of LGBTQ+ families in Germany	5
Clothed, blurred, exposed: Visual privacy and Filipino male sexual labour on X (Twitter)	5
Between queer sexualities and migrant heteronormative familialism: Chinese rural-to-urban male migrant workers surviving economic precarity and cultural norms	5
Acceptance and rejection: Brothers’ and sisters’ responses to sex work disclosure in Poland	5
Corrigendum to “Digital intimacies: Queer men and smartphones in times of crisis: A roundtable discussion”	5
“It’s hard to know what we should be doing”: LGBTQ+ students’ library privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic	4
“Porn is blunt […] I had way more LGBTQ+ friendly education through porn”: The experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals with online pornography	4
Book Reviews: AIDS & Representation: Queering Portraiture During the AIDS Crisis in America JohnstoneFiona, AIDS & Representation: Queering Portraiture During the AIDS Crisis in America, Londo	4
Male homosexual identities under transformation: Revisiting a Mexican community	4
“We are in a very precarious position”: Exploring the resilience of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan	4
Erratum to “Editorial by Rebecca Saunders: Sexual Datafication”	4

Hierarchies in heterosexuality: Orgasms, intercourse and sexual scripts	4
Weak chemsex as cultural scripts: Understanding how Chinese gay men narrate sexualised drug use	4
A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments	4
Erotic capabilities: A feminist analysis of sexual justice and pleasure in heterosexual sex partying	4
Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires	4
We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT+ rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda	4
Young women’s sexual agency, relationality, and vulnerability: The Israeli case study of “attacking”	4
Gender, sexuality and race: An intersectional analysis of racial consumption and exclusion in Birmingham’s gay village	3
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture	3
Dirty work, emotion work and safety work. Experiencing rape threats as a feminist researcher	3
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 Mainlan	3
‘Send Nudes?’: Teens’ perspectives of education around sexting, an argument for a balanced approach	3
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
Aging out: Place and sexuality	3
Both because of and in spite of: Towards the reclamation of queercrip joy	3
Managing intimacy: How sex workers negotiate boundaries on webcam platforms	3
Editorial on Ken Plummer	3
The Elle Woods effect: Being “girled” while reclaiming girliness	3
The intersection of queer theory and transgender sexuality: Why new conceptualisations are needed	3
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., $75	3
Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art of Helen Chadwick	3
Introduction: Queer immunities/immunologies, queer virology	3
Introduction to the special issue “Mobilising queer joy: Establishing queer joy studies”	3
South-South transnational movement building: Changing Faces, Changing Spaces in Africa	3
Ken Plummer’s contributions to the study of sexualities and beyond	3
“A very risky queer thing to do”: In conversation with Ken Plummer	3
Queer kinship: Experiences of double-motherhood in Brazil	3
Viral Sensibilities: A Conversation with Tim Dean	3
More like a woman: Activa/Pasiva subjectivities in Cuba	3
A vaccine for everyone? Biosexual citizenship, LGBTQ+ health and sexual practice in HPV vaccination policy-settings for “high-risk groups”	3
“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 debates	3
“It definitely was consensual, but…”: Normative tensions about gendered heterosexuality and young women’s mixed feelings about sex	3