Culture Health & Sexuality

Papers
(The median citation count of Culture Health & Sexuality 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
Exploring Latino cultural factors from the perspective of sexual minority men in the USA20
Between ‘block course relationships and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University16
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support16
‘We don’t openly discuss these things’: Cultural complexities in teaching about sexuality and HIV in South Africa14
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the “training for health professionals” study14
Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools13
Exploring the relationship between medically unnecessary childhood penile circumcision and adult mental health13
Contemplating abortion: a qualitative study of men and women’s reactions to unplanned pregnancy in Sierra Leone12
‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood12
Sprouting sideways: queer temporalities and kinship in donor conception12
Putting it behind? Young Indian victim-survivors of sexual violence and the quest for sexual well-being12
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris12
Medical gendered racism and Black women’s experiences of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder in the USA – A conceptual exploration12
Female genital cosmetic surgery in Indonesia: a qualitative analysis of medical advertising on Instagram12
The juxtaposition of invalidation and “inviting in”: a qualitative study of bisexual identity in South Africa12
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore12
‘I created my own access:’ understanding mental healthcare access experiences among LGTBQ + youth who use cannabis in Canada12
Men’s Achilles’ heel: prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity11
From stigma to solutions: harnessing local wisdom to tackle harms associated with menstrual seclusion ( chhaupadi ) in Nepal11
Living in a liminal space: Experiences of 2SLGBTQ + official language minority Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Interactive community-based theatre to address social barriers to accessing reproductive health services in patriarchal societies: the case of Jordan10
Correction10
Understanding service preferences among consensually non-monogamous individuals seeking sexual healthcare10
Exploring the motivations and dynamics of older French-speaking men settled in Thailand10
Men who have sex with men experience low anxiety and few barriers to performing anal self or companion examinations: a qualitative study of the Prevent Anal Cancer Palpation Study10
Experience of menstruation with the use of reusable menstrual products: a qualitative study among menstruators in Israel9
‘I did not have sex outside of our bubble’: changes in sexual practices and risk reduction strategies among sexual minority men in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Understanding drivers of female sex workers’ experiences of external/enacted and internalised stigma: findings from a cross-sectional community-centric national study in South Africa9
Pre-migration trauma and post-migration health burdens among sexuality and gender minority forced migrants: an exploratory qualitative study9
Social support among women with genital fistula in Uganda9
Lateral violence and its effects on the health of sexual minority pre-service teachers in township schools in South Africa9
Invisible survivors: sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant women in French Guiana9
Theorising masculinity, ageing, and the lived body: the case of prostate cancer9
Navigating LGBTQ+ visibility in Poland: evidence from a community experiencing minority stress9
Narratives of gender identity and invisible difficulties: interviews with Japanese Josōsha and Josōsha Aikō Dansei9
Just get a clearer idea of who I am : LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of abortion care in Aotearoa New Zealand following law reform9
Chest binding in context: stigma, fear, and lack of information drive negative outcomes8
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men’s chemsex practices8
Attitudes regarding the safety of in-clinic and self-managed abortion methods among the US general public in early 20228
Growing up in the shadow of HIV: post-AIDS generation of HIV-negative men who have sex with men in Sweden and their perceptions of HIV and stigma8
The dual faces of polygyny and ageing in Ghana: cultural status vs. social strain8
A qualitative community health assessment of HIV prevention awareness in a semi-rural Latinx seasonal farm working community in South Florida8
Exploring the identities and experiences of young queer people in Mongolia using visual research methods8
“A sweet in a polythene is not sweet”: men’s perceptions of their roles and experiences with family planning in East Uganda7
‘I turn to my closest friends for support’: queer youth navigating mental health during COVID-197
Reconciling intimacy and safety: a qualitative systematic review of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation among gay and bisexual men7
Beyond the surface: understanding the cultural roots of corrective rape in South African townships7
Boys’ perspectives on girls’ marriage and school dropout: a qualitative study revisiting a structural intervention in Southern India7
Safe abortion in Latin America: a look at abortion accompaniment collectives from the perspective of their activists7
‘It would be a problem for the family’: queerness, family honour and familism in Chile7
Cultural values influencing iTaukei women’s discussion of family planning in the home7
Branched sexuality and sexual health among Black cisgender sexual minority men in Baltimore, Maryland: an exploratory study6
Intersections between culture, contraception, knowledge and the body in the USA6
The influence of social relationships on PrEP attitudes among women with incarceration experience in the Southeastern USA6
Risk reconsidered: insights from a data saturation analysis of sexual health research amongst gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men6
First sexual intercourse: where did it take place? The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on the locations of initial sexual activity in university students6
‘Why aren’t you on PrEP? You’re a gay man’: reification of HIV ‘risk’ influences perception and behaviour of young sexual minority men and medical providers6
Experiences of interpersonal violence among a diverse sample of male sex workers6
‘To be vigilant to leave no trace’: secrecy, invisibility and abortion travel from the Republic of Ireland6
Indigenous research methods for healing sexual trauma with Cree women6
“Sewed girl” pronounced “virgin”: hymenoplasty and the shift in rhetoric of virginity in Iran6
Disrupting menstrual stigma at work? A thematic analysis of menstrual leave policy announcements across five countries6
The influence of intersectional stigma on mental health, uptake and retention in antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes for gender and sexuality diverse young people in Zimbabwe6
Teenage pregnancy in Tambogrande, Peru: causes, consequences and cycles of violence and disadvantage6
Cripping and queering gender-based violence prevention: bridging disability justice, queer joy, and consent education6
Thinking incrementally about policy interventions on intimate partner violence in Papua New Guinea: understanding ‘popcorn’ and ‘blanket’6
Rituals of transition during pregnancy in contemporary societies: a scoping review6
Confidence, practices and training needs of people working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ clients6
The entangled coexistence of materiality and subjectivity: a new materialist analysis of China’s jiese community5
Affective belonging and negotiated authenticity: Vietnamese gay men navigating sexuality, kinship and emotional health in Thailand5
Australian Muslim youth voices about religion and relationships and sexuality education5
Are daughters more preferred by young people in contemporary China? Qualitative evidence from one-child generation cohorts in urban Jiangsu5
Sex work stigma and the recuperation of moral personhood through gendered labour: sex worker diaries in Ukraine5
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India5
From AIDS to COVID-19, and back again5
Transgender migration and displacement: the experience of khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore5
Helping to destigmatise the use of period products for trans, masculine presenting, non-binary and gender diverse (TMNG) consumers through an inclusive communication design framework5
Heterosexual ‘situationships’ and HIV exposure for sexual and gender minority persons assigned female at birth in the Western Kenyan context5
Women are the thread: Keetoowah elders’ experiences of becoming a mother5
Migrants facing intersectional vulnerability to HIV and AIDS in Switzerland: an exploratory study5
Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution5
#WhyIDidntReport my sexual violence and its effect on social support5
Relating ‘to her Human Side’: a Grounded Theory analysis of cosmetologists’ and aestheticians’ relationships with clients in Black American beauty salons to inform sexual health interventions5
Iatrogenic necropolitics: forced anal examinations and state-sanctioned homophobia5
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women: a socio-ecological model approach5
Restorative solutions for anti-LGBT victimisation experiences: potential pathways for victims’ wellbeing and key challenges and needs5
Cultural practices supporting early motherhood in a Ghanaian community4
‘It’s a very grey, very messy area’: a qualitative examination of factors influencing undetectable gay men’s HIV status disclosure to sexual partners4
Perceptions of medication and procedural abortion among medication abortion patients in Mississippi, USA4
How to have sex in a pandemic: the development of strategies to prevent COVID-19 transmission in sexual encounters among gay and bisexual men in Australia4
Sexual and reproductive health and rights decision-making among Australian migrant and refugee youth: a group concept mapping study4
Bleeding beyond binaries: a critical interpretive review of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming experiences with menstruation4
The experience of abortion for Cook Islands women: exploring the socio-cultural dimensions of abortion safety4
Understanding access to healthcare for gender diverse young people: a critical review of the literature4
Non-binary narratives: subjectivation and lived experiences in contemporary Italy4
Unintended pregnancies in the lives of young people in Luwero, Uganda: a narrative analysis4
They call us goor-jigeen: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of Senegalese Muslim men who have sex with men living with HIV4
Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations4
Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health4
Women’s experiences of needing abortion care whilst incarcerated: a systematic review of the international literature4
‘[E]ven in our fear […] we wanted to do this’: feminist organising for abortion in Africa as palimpsestic4
Co-worker dynamics among Canadian sex workers in a stigmatised and criminalised environment4
‘Chinese academia wouldn’t be tolerant of my research’: gay academics’ concerns about conducting queer research in China4
School teachers’ menstrual experiences and practices: reflections from rural Rajasthan, India4
The intersectional social patterning of early-COVID-era digital intimacies among transgender and gender-diverse young adults: effects on peri-pandemic sexual decision-making4
‘We are aspiring to something that is not achievable by natural means’: a material-semiotic rendition of ‘technologies of the self’, steroid use, and social media among queer men in Winnipeg, Canada4
The ongoing and contentious coverage of abortion in a progressive context: a long-term cross-outlet assessment of Dutch abortion news (2000–2022)4
Self-care practices during the gender transition of Costa Rican transgender men4
Health intervention experiences and associated mental health outcomes in a sample of LGBTQ people with intersex variations in Australia4
Being a good boy: pup play, body image, and the self for gay, bi, trans, and queer men4
‘Let the ladies know’: queer women’s perceptions of how gender and sexual orientation shape their eating and weight concerns4
‘How can you worry about employment and survival at the same time?’: employment and mental health among precariously employed cisgender and transgender sexual minority adult men in Toronto, Canada4
Navigating intersecting identities and disclosure strategies: qualitative insights from gay Arab Australian men3
Taking matters into our own hands? Hierarchies of power and knowledge in online framings of IUD self-removal3
Self-diagnosing the end of pregnancy after medication abortion3
Pampalibog : chemsex, desire and pleasure in the Philippines3
Pynk proverbs: peeling the layers on spirituality and public health practices in the ‘P-valley’ television series3
‘We did not want to marry then, but’: understanding early marriage among Muslims in the context of the ‘Kerala model’ of development3
Going through treatment: experiences of women who sought assisted reproductive technology treatment in five selected hospitals in Ghana3
Missing voices: building women living with HIV’s meaningful engagement in HIV clinical and cure research3
Young adult writers’ thoughts on healthy pornography3
Sexual minority men’s experiences of, and strategies for emotional intimacy in intimate partner relationships3
The scarlet V: how women with dyspareunia negotiate postfeminist discourses of sexual agency3
Identity and pregnancy in conflict?: an examination of sexual minority women using qualitative description3
Community perspectives on Female Genital Mutilation in the Kuria community in Kitunda – Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania3
‘I never see anyone like myself represented in discussions about endometriosis’: priorities of LGBTQIA + endometriosis patients in New Zealand3
‘If we take the engine out, how will the car go?’: beliefs, understanding and access to vasectomy services in Timor-Leste3
‘It’s not a me thing’: the role of transcendence and critical politics in Black LGBTQ wellness in Montreal3
Population politics, reproductive governance and access to abortion in Turkey3
The COVID-19 pandemic and male sex workers who have sex with men: associations between age and race and advertising for work in 2019–20213
Relationship impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions on young women and men in Durban and Soweto, South Africa3
Breaking the silence: women’s resistance to menstrual shame on the Xiaohongshu social media platform3
‘My choice, my responsibility’: views of Danish and Israeli female students on financing egg-freezing3
Selling female pleasure: women’s adult industry and its podcasting in mainland China3
Women’s perspectives on barriers to potential PrEP uptake for HIV prevention: HIV risk assessment, relationship dynamics and stigma3
Stigmatised as ‘promoting’ with a duty to report: public healthcare workers providing services to criminalised ‘key populations for HIV’ under Uganda’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act3
Blessing of the moon: cultural beliefs, birth timing and child health in Nepal3
Intersectional vulnerabilities and differential impacts of COVID-19 responses on young people who sell sex in Zimbabwe3
‘It does not make the taboo go away’—women’s reactions to menstrual products advertisement videos3
A fertility app for two? Women’s perspectives on sharing conceptive fertility work with male partners3
Sexual self-representation in digital media3
Narrative strategies to re-signify sexual violence among gender and sexuality diverse Central American migrants in Tijuana3
Coming across a hidden problem in an excluded population in Sweden: professionals’ experiences of young migrants’ disclosures of sexual violence3
Stepping out of secrecy: heterosexuality, quality of life, and experiences of HIV peer navigation in Australia3
Sex life and sexuality among tongqi: doing gender and heterosexuality3
“‘Corona’ was bigger than AIDS”: exploring how female sex workers with HIV navigated HIV care and treatment during the onset of COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic and Tanzania3
Intimacy and identity negotiation in online asexual communities: beyond normative assumptions3
‘It takes a village to raise a child’: loss of ubuntu led to an escalation of teenage pregnancy during the COVID-19 lockdown in Uganda3
‘Without support, you are just alone’: relational food insecurity among a sample of gay men in India3
The romantic relationships of marginalised Roma youth as a gradual process of emancipation from communal constraints3
Indigenous men’s pathways to ‘living the right kind of life and walking the right path’ post incarceration in Canada: understanding the impacts of systemic oppression, and guidance for healing and (w)3
Trusted networks: a study of communication flow and access to abortion information in Argentina3
Communicating sexual health to the incarcerated population: information dissemination in a US sample of inmate handbooks3
Good servant, bad master: How eighty women perceive the influence of pornography on sexual scripts3
Gender, romantic relationships and sexual health in Mexico: Parents’ experiences of discussion with their children2
Submit to survive: an exploration of sexual cleansing as an act of violence against widows in the Luo community of Kenya2
Cultural and social influences on women’s experiences of sex and intimacy after cancer: ‘I just think romance looks different’2
LGBTQ+ disclosure: challenges and possibilities2
Disclosure, outing and family reactions: experiences of gender and sexuality diverse individuals in Harare, Zimbabwe2
Disability, culture, and erased sexuality: curated raw narratives of disabled women with significant impairments in India2
Structural factors shape racial differences in neighbourhood-level HIV risk environments for young men who have sex with men2
Experiences of, and motivations for, disclosing HIV to social and familial networks: considering the social and relational domains of HIV disclosure2
Fertility intentions and family size among married men in Khartoum, Sudan2
‘Parents are gudlists!’ Experiences of puberty and parent-child sexual communication in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa2
The politics of LGBT+ suicide and suicide prevention in the UK: risk, responsibility and rhetoric2
Using an intersectional life course perspective to understand familial environment and its impact on sexuality development among Asian American sexual minority college students2
‘Trauma sits in your body and makes you shut down:’ sexual and reproductive health professionals’ views of the impact of trauma on the sexual health of Native American older adolescent and young adult2
Managing the business of sex: swinger club managers and sexual health promotion2
Navigating cultural and gender aspects of stigma among women living with HIV in Vietnam2
Agency in young people’s unsafe abortion trajectories in Papua New Guinea2
‘Protecting your body and loving yourself’: strategies Black male caregivers use to protect Black girls sexuality in the USA2
The medical consultation as a site for governing abortion2
Preparing to play: a thematic analysis of bottom training in gay men’s fist-play2
Women at crossroads: a qualitative study of induced abortion and violence in a Ghanaian region2
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and or queer patient experiences in Canadian primary care and emergency departments: a literature review2
Gendered meanings and mechanisms of intimacy for people living with chronic pain2
Gender equity and intimate partner violence among adolescents and young adults in Tanzania2
Communicative appeals and messaging frames in visual media for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis promotion to cisgender and transgender women2
Sexuality and gender change efforts in Malaysia – proximal stressors and mental ill-health amongst LGBT+ adults2
‘I could see myself doing something like that’: US women’s engagement with characters who experience abortion, adoption and surrogacy on Little Fires Everywhere2
Swingers and swinging: a critical review of early and current literature and theory2
A qualitative exploration of perceptions of anal sex: implications for sex education and sexual health services in England2
Shifting meanings of HIV among Mapuche people in Chile: transmission, diagnosis and treatment narratives2
Adapting to poverty and dealing with gender: a comparative perspective on teenage pregnancy in the Peruvian Amazon2
Danger and sexuality: exploring negotiations in romantic and sexual relationships among university students in Ghana2
Cultural taboos and low sexual and reproductive health literacy among university students in Magway city, Myanmar2
Media representation, perception and stigmatisation of race, sexuality and HIV among young black gay and bisexual men2
‘I don’t want to have to teach every medical provider’: barriers to care among non-binary people in the Canadian healthcare system1
‘How can I fix my disrupted life?’ Embodied experiences and biocitizenship among men who have sex with men living with HIV in China1
‘When extramarital sex threatens patriarchy’: the iwushi-miri rite among Mgbowo women of southeastern Nigeria1
Intersecting gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation identities and HIV stigma: results from the People Living with HIV Stigma Index study in three provinces in Canada1
Fertility preservation and protection: young women’s decision-making about contraceptive use in Zimbabwe1
‘People need to know we exist!’: an exploratory study of the labour experiences of transmasculine and non-binary sex workers and implications for harm reduction1
Navigating through menstrual health experiences of educated urban individuals who menstruate during the COVID-19 lockdown: a study from India1
‘The abortion gave me my life back’: the long-term impact of access to self-managed medication abortion through telemedicine on women’s lives in legally restricted countries1
‘Like fumbling around in the dark’: Young people’s perceptions and realities of healthy relationships1
First Nations music and social emotional wellbeing and health among LGBTIQA+SB First Nations peoples: a review of the literature1
Religion, culture and sexuality in Africa: critical ethnographic perspectives1
Prep-Tok: a queer critical discourse analysis of TikToks regarding HIV-related pre-exposure prophylaxis1
‘Having children is like rain, as they say in our region’: exploring refugees’ reproductive agency1
‘You have a lot of mirrors’: structural and socioecological factors impacting adolescent pregnancy and reproductive health in the Amazon basin, Peru, a qualitative study1
More than prevention: early adoption of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by gay and bisexual men in New Zealand1
‘Surviving and thriving’: intersectional stigma and resilience of dual minority identities among Chinese gay and bisexual men living with HIV1
Unpacking cervical cancer stigma in healthcare: lessons learnt from Indonesian patients and health professionals1
When assisted reproductive technology (ART) opens the door for inclusivity in a highly charged cultural milieu: an exploration of news articles on the establishment of ART clinics in Zimbabwe1
Childfree activism and reproductive norms in the 21st century1
‘How do I really want to be as a man?’ Masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraceptive decision-making – findings from an interview study in Germany1
Transgender and other gender minoritised assigned female at birth young adults’ perceptions of and experiences with human papillomavirus vaccination1
Abortion: Autonomy, Anxiety and Exile – Editorial Introduction to a CHS Collection1
‘A difficult conversation’: community stakeholders’ and key informants’ perceptions of the barriers to talking about sex and HIV with adolescents and young people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa1
The invisibility of Black and Latina women in sexual health care: shifting from biological individualism to intersectionality1
Asked to be a sperm donor: disclosure dilemmas of gay men living with HIV1
Using the behaviour change wheel to examine facilitators and barriers to assertive contraception-use conversations for Indonesian women1
‘Sometimes white doctors are not very friendly or inclusive’: a Critical Race Theory analysis of racism within and beyond sexual health settings1
Contraceptive decision making among Chinese international students in Melbourne: findings from a qualitative investigation1
Developing critical HIV health literacy: insights from interviews with priority migrant communities in Queensland, Australia1
Understanding the role of medicalisation in mothers’ decision-making on daughters’ female genital cutting in Assiut, Egypt1
Women’s orgasms in Senegal: an exploratory mixed methods study of orgasm frequency, pleasure, and meaning among Senegalese women1
Interpersonal scripts and sexual communication: experiences and perspectives of young people in St. Petersburg, Russia1
“Having a guru is like having a licence”: analysing financial relationships between khwaja sira gurus and chelas in Swat, Pakistan1
Parental attitudes towards sexual orientation and gender diversity: challenging LGBT discrimination in Australian schools1
Between cultures and traditions: a qualitative investigation of sexual and reproductive health experiences of immigrant adolescents in Canada1
‘I just LOVE data’: perceptions and practices of data sharing and privacy among users of the Lioness1
Barriers to family planning through structural health vulnerabilities: findings from case studies from rural Uganda1
Social connectedness and supported self-management of early medication abortion in the UK: experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic and learning for the future1
Counselling men involved in unintended pregnancy1
Improving abortion underreporting in the USA: a cognitive interview study1
Reproductive health and ChatGPT: an evaluation of AI-Generated responses to commonly asked abortion questions1
The role of activists’ sexual orientation and gender identity in their participation in LGBT movements: a case study from Yunnan, China1
‘I told him I’m gonna get it’: intimate partner birth control communication among homeless young women1
‘Every slap demeans me’: at the intersection of disability, masculinity and intimate partner violence in the Global South1
A conceptual framework for queer, black womxn sexual assault survivors: an adaptation of the minoritised stress model1
Association of traditional marital practices with contraceptive decision-making, couple communication, and method use among couples in rural Maharashtra, India1
Perceptions of healthcare accessibility and medical mistrust among Black women living with HIV in the USA1
Photodiagnosis of genital herpes and warts: a sociomaterial perspective on users’ experiences of online sexual health care1
Using systems thinking to leverage adolescent sexual and reproductive health in rural Latino communities1
‘This is what's going to heal our kids’: bringing the Sexy Health Carnival into Indigenous cultural gatherings1
The end point of it is abstinence: a qualitative analysis of underlying factors influencing Christian leaders’ adoption and implementation of sex and sexuality education in Bolgatanga, Ghana1
‘Keep your eyes open’: HBCU women’s peer sexual advice and the (re)production of vigilance1
Reconciling moral discourses on choice, risk and pronatalism: the politics of elective egg freezing in Singapore1
COVID-19, lockdowns, and the mental wellbeing of LGBTQ people in Australia1
Changes in ageing women’s sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective: security, caring, and desire1
‘Yeah, they suck. It’s like they don’t care about our health.’ Medical mistrust among Black women under community supervision in New York city1
Family planning in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: personal beliefs, intimate partner negotiations and social pressure1
‘We can’t help who we love’: The impact of relationship dynamics on women’s HIV prevention strategies1
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