Culture Health & Sexuality

Article	Citations
Exploring the relationship between medically unnecessary childhood penile circumcision and adult mental health	31
From Earthly companions to extraterrestrial countermeasures: rethinking AI-mediated intimacy for long-duration spaceflight through modular autonomous intimacy companion architecture	20
Exploring Latino cultural factors from the perspective of sexual minority men in the USA	20
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the “training for health professionals” study	17
‘We don’t openly discuss these things’: Cultural complexities in teaching about sexuality and HIV in South Africa	17
The juxtaposition of invalidation and “inviting in”: a qualitative study of bisexual identity in South Africa	17
Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools	16
Vaginal practices in the creation of womanhood and women’s attainment of sexual pleasure in rural Zimbabwe	15
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support	14
Healthcare experiences of transgender and gender diverse adults in rural areas in US ‘affirming’ states	14
Between ‘block course relationships ’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University	14
Putting it behind? Young Indian victim-survivors of sexual violence and the quest for sexual well-being	13
‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood	13
Sprouting sideways: queer temporalities and kinship in donor conception	13
Exploring the motivations and dynamics of older French-speaking men settled in Thailand	13
‘I created my own access:’ understanding mental healthcare access experiences among LGTBQ + youth who use cannabis in Canada	13
Medical gendered racism and Black women’s experiences of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder in the USA – A conceptual exploration	13
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 Study	12
Theorising masculinity, ageing, and the lived body: the case of prostate cancer	12
Correction	12
A systems model of the factors reinforcing sexual and reproductive health provider stigma: practical implications for interventions	12
Living in a liminal space: Experiences of 2SLGBTQ + official language minority Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Female genital cosmetic surgery in Indonesia: a qualitative analysis of medical advertising on Instagram	11
Understanding service preferences among consensually non-monogamous individuals seeking sexual healthcare	11
Experience of menstruation with the use of reusable menstrual products: a qualitative study among menstruators in Israel	11

Men’s Achilles’ heel: prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity	11
Navigating LGBTQ+ visibility in Poland: evidence from a community experiencing minority stress	11
Invisible survivors: sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant women in French Guiana	10
From stigma to solutions: harnessing local wisdom to tackle harms associated with menstrual seclusion ( chhaupadi ) in Nepal	10
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 stigma	10
Pre-migration trauma and post-migration health burdens among sexuality and gender minority forced migrants: an exploratory qualitative study	10
Navigating hostility: digital and social strategies among young men who have sex with men in Southern Nigeria	10
‘ Just get a clearer idea of who I am ’ : LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of abortion care in Aotearoa New Zealand following law reform	10
‘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 pandemic	10
Lateral violence and its effects on the health of sexual minority pre-service teachers in township schools in South Africa	9
Narratives of gender identity and invisible difficulties: interviews with Japanese Josōsha and Josōsha Aikō Dansei	9
The dual faces of polygyny and ageing in Ghana: cultural status vs. social strain	9
Understanding drivers of female sex workers’ experiences of external/enacted and internalised stigma: findings from a cross-sectional community-centric national study in South Africa	9
Identifications in flux: sexual-minority women’s healthcare encounters viewed through the lens of identitarian articulations	9
Boys’ perspectives on girls’ marriage and school dropout: a qualitative study revisiting a structural intervention in Southern India	8
A qualitative community health assessment of HIV prevention awareness in a semi-rural Latinx seasonal farm working community in South Florida	8
Thinking incrementally about policy interventions on intimate partner violence in Papua New Guinea: understanding ‘popcorn’ and ‘blanket’	8
Attitudes regarding the safety of in-clinic and self-managed abortion methods among the US general public in early 2022	8
Reconciling intimacy and safety: a qualitative systematic review of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation among gay and bisexual men	8
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men’s chemsex practices	8
Cultural values influencing iTaukei women’s discussion of family planning in the home	7
“A sweet in a polythene is not sweet”: men’s perceptions of their roles and experiences with family planning in East Uganda	7
‘To be vigilant to leave no trace’: secrecy, invisibility and abortion travel from the Republic of Ireland	7
Indigenous research methods for healing sexual trauma with Cree women	7
The influence of intersectional stigma on mental health, uptake and retention in antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes for gender and sexuality diverse young people in Zimbabwe	7
Safe abortion in Latin America: a look at abortion accompaniment collectives from the perspective of their activists	7
Cripping and queering gender-based violence prevention: bridging disability justice, queer joy, and consent education	7
Intersections between culture, contraception, knowledge and the body in the USA	7
‘I turn to my closest friends for support’: queer youth navigating mental health during COVID-19	7
“Sewed girl” pronounced “virgin”: hymenoplasty and the shift in rhetoric of virginity in Iran	7
Disrupting menstrual stigma at work? A thematic analysis of menstrual leave policy announcements across five countries	7
Risk reconsidered: insights from a data saturation analysis of sexual health research amongst gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men	7
Beyond the surface: understanding the cultural roots of corrective rape in South African townships	7
‘It would be a problem for the family’: queerness, family honour and familism in Chile	7
First sexual intercourse: where did it take place? The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on the locations of initial sexual activity in university students	7
Teenage pregnancy in Tambogrande, Peru: causes, consequences and cycles of violence and disadvantage	7
Transgender migration and displacement: the experience of khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore	6
‘There is no option; we do not have the option to say no’: sexual consent among Ecuadorian adolescents and young women	6
Rituals of transition during pregnancy in contemporary societies: a scoping review	6
Affective belonging and negotiated authenticity: Vietnamese gay men navigating sexuality, kinship and emotional health in Thailand	6
Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution	6
From AIDS to COVID-19, and back again	6
Experiences of interpersonal violence among a diverse sample of male sex workers	6
Branched sexuality and sexual health among Black cisgender sexual minority men in Baltimore, Maryland: an exploratory study	6
Iatrogenic necropolitics: forced anal examinations and state-sanctioned homophobia	6
Australian Muslim youth voices about religion and relationships and sexuality education	6
‘You shoot it up your vagina and that’s supposed to heal it?’: Black women’s perceptions of vaginal steaming in the USA	6
COVID-19 responses and human rights violations among LGBTQ+ persons in Zimbabwe	6
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 interventions	6
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India	5

Understanding the increased vulnerability to sexual violence and factors that affect disclosure and support among LGBTQ+ women at a US college	5
Sex work stigma and the recuperation of moral personhood through gendered labour: sex worker diaries in Ukraine	5
Women are the thread: Keetoowah elders’ experiences of becoming a mother	5
Can dating app cultures support emotional health and well-being in future pandemics?	5
Helping to destigmatise the use of period products for trans, masculine presenting, non-binary and gender diverse (TMNG) consumers through an inclusive communication design framework	5
The ongoing and contentious coverage of abortion in a progressive context: a long-term cross-outlet assessment of Dutch abortion news (2000–2022)	5
‘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, Canada	5
Heterosexual ‘situationships’ and HIV exposure for sexual and gender minority persons assigned female at birth in the Western Kenyan context	5
Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations	5
The entangled coexistence of materiality and subjectivity: a new materialist analysis of China’s jiese community	5
Migrants facing intersectional vulnerability to HIV and AIDS in Switzerland: an exploratory study	5
Male engagement in menstrual care: evidence from boys and young men in urban slums in Mumbai	5
Pornography-use patterns and psychosexual well-being: cultural and gender differences among partnered young people in China and the UK	5
‘It’s a very grey, very messy area’: a qualitative examination of factors influencing undetectable gay men’s HIV status disclosure to sexual partners	5
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women: a socio-ecological model approach	5
Are daughters more preferred by young people in contemporary China? Qualitative evidence from one-child generation cohorts in urban Jiangsu	5
They call us goor-jigeen: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of Senegalese Muslim men who have sex with men living with HIV	5
#WhyIDidntReport my sexual violence and its effect on social support	5
Exploring relationship pathways to prevent intimate partner violence among young women in Malawi	5
Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health	5
Perceptions of medication and procedural abortion among medication abortion patients in Mississippi, USA	5
Going through treatment: experiences of women who sought assisted reproductive technology treatment in five selected hospitals in Ghana	4
Non-binary narratives: subjectivation and lived experiences in contemporary Italy	4
Understanding aromantic peoples’ experiences of intra-community discrimination within the Queer Community	4
Navigating stigma, faith, and fear: understanding HPV vaccine acceptance among adolescent girls in rural parts of Central Ethiopia	4
Women’s experiences of needing abortion care whilst incarcerated: a systematic review of the international literature	4
School teachers’ menstrual experiences and practices: reflections from rural Rajasthan, India	4
Cultural practices supporting early motherhood in a Ghanaian community	4
Co-worker dynamics among Canadian sex workers in a stigmatised and criminalised environment	4
‘[E]ven in our fear […] we wanted to do this’: feminist organising for abortion in Africa as palimpsestic	4
The experience of abortion for Cook Islands women: exploring the socio-cultural dimensions of abortion safety	4
“‘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 Tanzania	4
Engaging adolescents in sexual and reproductive health research in the Arab Middle East: a qualitative study of researchers’ perspectives	4
‘Let the ladies know’: queer women’s perceptions of how gender and sexual orientation shape their eating and weight concerns	4
How the media and audience frame abortion: a case study of Vietnamese online newspapers and readers’ comments	4
Self-care practices during the gender transition of Costa Rican transgender men	4
Selling female pleasure: women’s adult industry and its podcasting in mainland China	4
‘We did not want to marry then, but’: understanding early marriage among Muslims in the context of the ‘Kerala model’ of development	4
Intimacy and identity negotiation in online asexual communities: beyond normative assumptions	4
Sexual and reproductive health and rights decision-making among Australian migrant and refugee youth: a group concept mapping study	4
Pynk proverbs: peeling the layers on spirituality and public health practices in the ‘P-valley’ television series	4
Being a good boy: pup play, body image, and the self for gay, bi, trans, and queer men	4
Health intervention experiences and associated mental health outcomes in a sample of LGBTQ people with intersex variations in Australia	4
‘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, Canada	4
The intersectional social patterning of early-COVID-era digital intimacies among transgender and gender-diverse young adults: effects on peri-pandemic sexual decision-making	4
Restorative solutions for anti-LGBT victimisation experiences: potential pathways for victims’ wellbeing and key challenges and needs	4
Unintended pregnancies in the lives of young people in Luwero, Uganda: a narrative analysis	4
Bleeding beyond binaries: a critical interpretive review of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming experiences with menstruation	4
Self-diagnosing the end of pregnancy after medication abortion	3
Good servant, bad master: How eighty women perceive the influence of pornography on sexual scripts	3
Population politics, reproductive governance and access to abortion in Turkey	3
Navigating intersecting identities and disclosure strategies: qualitative insights from gay Arab Australian men	3
Relational autonomy and the politics of reproduction: infertility and kinship demands in African and diasporic contexts	3
The romantic relationships of marginalised Roma youth as a gradual process of emancipation from communal constraints	3
Racism in contraceptive care: ‘that trust barrier is really hard to build back up, rightfully so’	3
‘It does not make the taboo go away’—women’s reactions to menstrual products advertisement videos	3
Breaking the silence: women’s resistance to menstrual shame on the Xiaohongshu social media platform	3
‘It takes a village to raise a child’: loss of ubuntu led to an escalation of teenage pregnancy during the COVID-19 lockdown in Uganda	3
Pampalibog : chemsex, desire and pleasure in the Philippines	3
Relationship impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions on young women and men in Durban and Soweto, South Africa	3
Sexual self-representation in digital media	3
The association between female genital cutting and time-to-pregnancy among women of reproductive age – applying the current duration approach in demographic and health survey data from Nigeria	3
Women’s perspectives on barriers to potential PrEP uptake for HIV prevention: HIV risk assessment, relationship dynamics and stigma	3
‘It’s not a me thing’: the role of transcendence and critical politics in Black LGBTQ wellness in Montreal	3
Coming across a hidden problem in an excluded population in Sweden: professionals’ experiences of young migrants’ disclosures of sexual violence	3
Identity and pregnancy in conflict?: an examination of sexual minority women using qualitative description	3
Adolescents’ agency in negotiating social norms governing sexual and reproductive health services among the Nyasa people of Rural Tanzania	3
Stepping out of secrecy: heterosexuality, quality of life, and experiences of HIV peer navigation in Australia	3
Patient-provider communication and the role of PrEP coordinators: a qualitative analysis to improve HIV preventive care	3
Missing voices: building women living with HIV’s meaningful engagement in HIV clinical and cure research	3
Taking matters into our own hands? Hierarchies of power and knowledge in online framings of IUD self-removal	3
‘Without support, you are just alone’: relational food insecurity among a sample of gay men in India	3
Relationship-level factors influencing intimate partner violence and relationship quality among young couples in an urban informal settlement in South Africa	3
‘I never see anyone like myself represented in discussions about endometriosis’: priorities of LGBTQIA + endometriosis patients in New Zealand	3
Communicating sexual health to the incarcerated population: information dissemination in a US sample of inmate handbooks	3
The COVID-19 pandemic and male sex workers who have sex with men: associations between age and race and advertising for work in 2019–2021	3
An exploratory study of marianismo and masturbation among cisgender mono-ethnic Latinas in the USA	3
Using systems thinking to leverage adolescent sexual and reproductive health in rural Latino communities	2
The scarlet V: how women with dyspareunia negotiate postfeminist discourses of sexual agency	2
Blessing of the moon: cultural beliefs, birth timing and child health in Nepal	2

The medical consultation as a site for governing abortion	2
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 possibilities	2
Sexuality and gender change efforts in Malaysia – proximal stressors and mental ill-health amongst LGBT+ adults	2
Cultural taboos and low sexual and reproductive health literacy among university students in Magway city, Myanmar	2
Gender, romantic relationships and sexual health in Mexico: Parents’ experiences of discussion with their children	2
Preparing to play: a thematic analysis of bottom training in gay men’s fist-play	2
Young adult writers’ thoughts on healthy pornography	2
‘Parents are gudlists!’ Experiences of puberty and parent-child sexual communication in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	2
Communicative appeals and messaging frames in visual media for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis promotion to cisgender and transgender women	2
‘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 adult	2
‘Protecting your body and loving yourself’: strategies Black male caregivers use to protect Black girls sexuality in the USA	2
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 Act	2
Exploring factors affecting the decision-making process among adolescents and youth in KwaZulu-Natal in accessing and utilising sexual reproductive health services	2
Challenges in menstrual health service delivery to girls and young women in Mumbai slums: provider perspectives	2
From sex work to post-sexual labour: symbolic boundaries in professional dominatrix profiles	2
Intersectional vulnerabilities and differential impacts of COVID-19 responses on young people who sell sex in Zimbabwe	2
Trusted networks: a study of communication flow and access to abortion information in Argentina	2
Fertility intentions and family size among married men in Khartoum, Sudan	2
Navigating cultural and gender aspects of stigma among women living with HIV in Vietnam	2
Using an intersectional life course perspective to understand familial environment and its impact on sexuality development among Asian American sexual minority college students	2
The politics of LGBT+ suicide and suicide prevention in the UK: risk, responsibility and rhetoric	2
Gendered meanings and mechanisms of intimacy for people living with chronic pain	2
‘I could see myself doing something like that’: US women’s engagement with characters who experience abortion, adoption and surrogacy on Little Fires Everywhere	2
Sugar relationships in Tehran	2
Shifting meanings of HIV among Mapuche people in Chile: transmission, diagnosis and treatment narratives	2
Community perspectives on Female Genital Mutilation in the Kuria community in Kitunda – Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania	2
Submit to survive: an exploration of sexual cleansing as an act of violence against widows in the Luo community of Kenya	2
Forced matrimony and women’s health in Kashmir, northwest India: a phenomenological inquiry	2
Agency in young people’s unsafe abortion trajectories in Papua New Guinea	2
Menstrual beliefs and lived experiences among tribal women in South Karnataka, India—at the forest’s edge	2
Barriers to family planning through structural health vulnerabilities: findings from case studies from rural Uganda	2
Narrative strategies to re-signify sexual violence among gender and sexuality diverse Central American migrants in Tijuana	2
Swingers and swinging: a critical review of early and current literature and theory	2
‘If we take the engine out, how will the car go?’: beliefs, understanding and access to vasectomy services in Timor-Leste	2
Sexual minority men’s experiences of, and strategies for emotional intimacy in intimate partner relationships	2
Changes in ageing women’s sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective: security, caring, and desire	2
Gender equity and intimate partner violence among adolescents and young adults in Tanzania	2
Disability, culture, and erased sexuality: curated raw narratives of disabled women with significant impairments in India	2
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and or queer patient experiences in Canadian primary care and emergency departments: a literature review	2
Women at crossroads: a qualitative study of induced abortion and violence in a Ghanaian region	2
Managing the business of sex: swinger club managers and sexual health promotion	2
Experiences of, and motivations for, disclosing HIV to social and familial networks: considering the social and relational domains of HIV disclosure	2
‘Something about an app, you know?’: narratives of everyday menstrual justice among trans and nonbinary people in Canada and the USA	2
Critical perspectives in the making: early pregnancy among young people in Nieva, Amazonas	2
Recommendations from Black gay and bisexual men for developing a public health campaign to promote awareness of long-acting injectable PrEP within their community	2
Feminist care in the centre: abortion accompaniment practices in Northern Mexico	2
Between cultures and traditions: a qualitative investigation of sexual and reproductive health experiences of immigrant adolescents in Canada	2
Sex workers’ experiences of access to healthcare in Flanders, Belgium	2
More than prevention: early adoption of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by gay and bisexual men in New Zealand	2
Experiences of racialisation for LBQ women and non-binary persons of colour in Swedish queer spaces	2
‘I just LOVE data’: perceptions and practices of data sharing and privacy among users of the Lioness	1
Developing critical HIV health literacy: insights from interviews with priority migrant communities in Queensland, Australia	1
‘I don’t want to have to teach every medical provider’: barriers to care among non-binary people in the Canadian healthcare system	1
Contraceptive decision making among Chinese international students in Melbourne: findings from a qualitative investigation	1
Perceptions of healthcare accessibility and medical mistrust among Black women living with HIV in the USA	1
Social connectedness and supported self-management of early medication abortion in the UK: experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic and learning for the future	1
Asked to be a sperm donor: disclosure dilemmas of gay men living with HIV	1
Transgender and other gender minoritised assigned female at birth young adults’ perceptions of and experiences with human papillomavirus vaccination	1
‘Like fumbling around in the dark’: Young people’s perceptions and realities of healthy relationships	1
Parental attitudes towards sexual orientation and gender diversity: challenging LGBT discrimination in Australian schools	1
Improving abortion underreporting in the USA: a cognitive interview study	1
Characterising social capital bonds between young, Black sexual minority men and Black women in the Southern USA: a qualitative investigation to inform a PrEP intervention	1
Coping with the stress of providing mental health-related informal support to peers in an LGBTQ context	1
A conceptual framework for queer, black womxn sexual assault survivors: an adaptation of the minoritised stress model	1
‘Sometimes, we don’t know if we’re getting abused’: discussions of intimate partner violence and HIV risk among transgender women	1
COVID-19, lockdowns, and the mental wellbeing of LGBTQ people in Australia	1
Reconciling moral discourses on choice, risk and pronatalism: the politics of elective egg freezing in Singapore	1
‘I’m doing it willingly’: understanding moral agency, empathy, and stigma in the context of sexualised drug use	1
Religion, culture and sexuality in Africa: critical ethnographic perspectives	1
‘We can’t help who we love’: The impact of relationship dynamics on women’s HIV prevention strategies	1
‘Yeah, they suck. It’s like they don’t care about our health.’ Medical mistrust among Black women under community supervision in New York city	1
“Having a guru is like having a licence”: analysing financial relationships between khwaja sira gurus and chelas in Swat, Pakistan	1
Fertility preservation and protection: young women’s decision-making about contraceptive use in Zimbabwe	1
‘When extramarital sex threatens patriarchy’: the iwushi-miri rite among Mgbowo women of southeastern Nigeria	1
Hypersexualisation and racialised erotic capital in sex work	1
Cultural discourses and HIV/AIDS activists’ meanings about PrEP	1
‘Boy smell’: transgender and nonbinary people’s experiences of bodily smell	1
What does it mean to be ‘porn literate’: perspectives of young people, parents and teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Between legacy and change: second-child fertility intentions among Chinese mothers in the post-one-child era	1
‘Keep your eyes open’: HBCU women’s peer sexual advice and the (re)production of vigilance	1
‘You have a lot of mirrors’: structural and socioecological factors impacting adolescent pregnancy and reproductive health in the Amazon basin, Peru, a qualitative study	1
Holding the system together with tape: Social workers’ experiences in migrant sexual and reproductive health services in Türkiye	1
Women’s orgasms in Senegal: an exploratory mixed methods study of orgasm frequency, pleasure, and meaning among Senegalese women	1
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 Zimbabwe	1
‘Having children is like rain, as they say in our region’: exploring refugees’ reproductive agency	1
Navigating through menstrual health experiences of educated urban individuals who menstruate during the COVID-19 lockdown: a study from India	1
Young women’s understanding and experience of sexual consent in Slovakia: an interpretative phenomenological analysis	1
‘Surviving and thriving’: intersectional stigma and resilience of dual minority identities among Chinese gay and bisexual men living with HIV	1
Reproductive health and ChatGPT: an evaluation of AI-Generated responses to commonly asked abortion questions	1
‘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 Africa	1
‘Sometimes white doctors are not very friendly or inclusive’: a Critical Race Theory analysis of racism within and beyond sexual health settings	1
The paradox of pornography – sexuality and problematic pornography use	1
Adolescent boys’ and girls’ perspectives on social norms surrounding child marriage in Nepal	1
‘How can I fix my disrupted life?’ Embodied experiences and biocitizenship among men who have sex with men living with HIV in China	1