Culture Health & Sexuality

Article	Citations
Between ‘block course relationships ’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University	42
Exploring the relationship between medically unnecessary childhood penile circumcision and adult mental health	35
Contemplating abortion: a qualitative study of men and women’s reactions to unplanned pregnancy in Sierra Leone	19
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris	17
Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools	15
‘We don’t openly discuss these things’: Cultural complexities in teaching about sexuality and HIV in South Africa	14
Mental health and related service use by sex workers in rural and remote Australia: ‘there’s a lot of stigma in society’	14
The juxtaposition of invalidation and “inviting in”: a qualitative study of bisexual identity in South Africa	13
Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support	12
Exploring Latino cultural factors from the perspective of sexual minority men in the USA	12
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the “training for health professionals” study	12
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore	11
Sex workers’ self-reported physical and mental health in Greece. A repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019	11
Putting it behind? Young Indian victim-survivors of sexual violence and the quest for sexual well-being	11
Men’s Achilles’ heel: prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity	10
Medical gendered racism and Black women’s experiences of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder in the USA – A conceptual exploration	10
Living in a liminal space: Experiences of 2SLGBTQ + official language minority Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Interactive community-based theatre to address social barriers to accessing reproductive health services in patriarchal societies: the case of Jordan	10
‘I created my own access:’ understanding mental healthcare access experiences among LGTBQ + youth who use cannabis in Canada	10
Sprouting sideways: queer temporalities and kinship in donor conception	10
Understanding service preferences among consensually non-monogamous individuals seeking sexual healthcare	10
Experience of menstruation with the use of reusable menstrual products: a qualitative study among menstruators in Israel	10
‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood	10
Female genital cosmetic surgery in Indonesia: a qualitative analysis of medical advertising on Instagram	10
Navigating LGBTQ+ visibility in Poland: evidence from a community experiencing minority stress	9

Theorising masculinity, ageing, and the lived body: the case of prostate cancer	9
Social support among women with genital fistula in Uganda	9
Correction	9
From stigma to solutions: harnessing local wisdom to tackle harms associated with menstrual seclusion ( chhaupadi ) in Nepal	9
Exploring the motivations and dynamics of older French-speaking men settled in Thailand	9
‘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	9
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	9
The Beijing Rainbow Film Festival: between depoliticisation and performative activism	9
Lateral violence and its effects on the health of sexual minority pre-service teachers in township schools in South Africa	9
Chest binding in context: stigma, fear, and lack of information drive negative outcomes	8
A qualitative community health assessment of HIV prevention awareness in a semi-rural Latinx seasonal farm working community in South Florida	8
Exploring the identities and experiences of young queer people in Mongolia using visual research methods	8
Pre-migration trauma and post-migration health burdens among sexuality and gender minority forced migrants: an exploratory qualitative study	8
Narratives of gender identity and invisible difficulties: interviews with Japanese Josōsha and Josōsha Aikō Dansei	8
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	8
Invisible survivors: sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant women in French Guiana	8
‘I don’t live in my body somehow’: metaphorical talk in women’s accounts of vaginismus and dyspareunia	8
‘ Just get a clearer idea of who I am ’ : LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of abortion care in Aotearoa New Zealand following law reform	8
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men’s chemsex practices	7
Thinking incrementally about policy interventions on intimate partner violence in Papua New Guinea: understanding ‘popcorn’ and ‘blanket’	7
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	7
Beyond the surface: understanding the cultural roots of corrective rape in South African townships	7
Reconciling intimacy and safety: a qualitative systematic review of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation among gay and bisexual men	7
Attitudes regarding the safety of in-clinic and self-managed abortion methods among the US general public in early 2022	7
‘To be vigilant to leave no trace’: secrecy, invisibility and abortion travel from the Republic of Ireland	7
Intersections between culture, contraception, knowledge and the body in the USA	7
‘It would be a problem for the family’: queerness, family honour and familism in Chile	7
Teenage pregnancy in Tambogrande, Peru: causes, consequences and cycles of violence and disadvantage	6
Boys’ perspectives on girls’ marriage and school dropout: a qualitative study revisiting a structural intervention in Southern India	6
Cultural values influencing iTaukei women’s discussion of family planning in the home	6
Indigenous research methods for healing sexual trauma with Cree women	6
‘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 providers	6
Cripping and queering gender-based violence prevention: bridging disability justice, queer joy, and consent education	6
‘I turn to my closest friends for support’: queer youth navigating mental health during COVID-19	6
The influence of social relationships on PrEP attitudes among women with incarceration experience in the Southeastern USA	6
First sexual intercourse: where did it take place? The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on the locations of initial sexual activity in university students	6
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	6
Safe abortion in Latin America: a look at abortion accompaniment collectives from the perspective of their activists	6
“A sweet in a polythene is not sweet”: men’s perceptions of their roles and experiences with family planning in East Uganda	6
“Sewed girl” pronounced “virgin”: hymenoplasty and the shift in rhetoric of virginity in Iran	6
Experiences of interpersonal violence among a diverse sample of male sex workers	6
Disrupting menstrual stigma at work? A thematic analysis of menstrual leave policy announcements across five countries	5
Iatrogenic necropolitics: forced anal examinations and state-sanctioned homophobia	5
#WhyIDidntReport my sexual violence and its effect on social support	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
Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health	5
The entangled coexistence of materiality and subjectivity: a new materialist analysis of China’s jiese community	5
Branched sexuality and sexual health among Black cisgender sexual minority men in Baltimore, Maryland: an exploratory study	5
Australian Muslim youth voices about religion and relationships and sexuality education	5
Interpersonal violence victimisation, HIV-related behaviours and STIs among adult, urban Indigenous and non-Indigenous gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Guatemala	5

Migrants facing intersectional vulnerability to HIV and AIDS in Switzerland: an exploratory study	5
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women: a socio-ecological model approach	5
Confidence, practices and training needs of people working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ clients	5
Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution	5
Transgender migration and displacement: the experience of khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore	5
From AIDS to COVID-19, and back again	5
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India	5
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	5
Women are the thread: Keetoowah elders’ experiences of becoming a mother	4
Are daughters more preferred by young people in contemporary China? Qualitative evidence from one-child generation cohorts in urban Jiangsu	4
Sex work stigma and the recuperation of moral personhood through gendered labour: sex worker diaries in Ukraine	4
Understanding access to healthcare for gender diverse young people: a critical review of the literature	4
‘Let the ladies know’: queer women’s perceptions of how gender and sexual orientation shape their eating and weight concerns	4
Sexual and reproductive health and rights decision-making among Australian migrant and refugee youth: a group concept mapping study	4
The experience of abortion for Cook Islands women: exploring the socio-cultural dimensions of abortion safety	4
‘[E]ven in our fear […] we wanted to do this’: feminist organising for abortion in Africa as palimpsestic	4
Unintended pregnancies in the lives of young people in Luwero, Uganda: a narrative analysis	4
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 Australia	4
Sexual healthcare experiences of nonbinary young adults	4
Health intervention experiences and associated mental health outcomes in a sample of LGBTQ people with intersex variations in Australia	4
‘It’s a very grey, very messy area’: a qualitative examination of factors influencing undetectable gay men’s HIV status disclosure to sexual partners	4
Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations	4
School teachers’ menstrual experiences and practices: reflections from rural Rajasthan, India	4
Going through treatment: experiences of women who sought assisted reproductive technology treatment in five selected hospitals in Ghana	4
‘We did not want to marry then, but’: understanding early marriage among Muslims in the context of the ‘Kerala model’ of development	4
Sex life and sexuality among tongqi: doing gender and heterosexuality	4
Selling female pleasure: women’s adult industry and its podcasting in mainland China	4
Being a good boy: pup play, body image, and the self for gay, bi, trans, and queer men	4
Women’s experiences of needing abortion care whilst incarcerated: a systematic review of the international literature	4
‘Chinese academia wouldn’t be tolerant of my research’: gay academics’ concerns about conducting queer research in China	4
Cultural practices supporting early motherhood in a Ghanaian community	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
Heterosexual ‘situationships’ and HIV exposure for sexual and gender minority persons assigned female at birth in the Western Kenyan context	4
Restorative solutions for anti-LGBT victimisation experiences: potential pathways for victims’ wellbeing and key challenges and needs	4
They call us goor-jigeen: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of Senegalese Muslim men who have sex with men living with HIV	4
‘Oh, I don’t really want to bother with that:’ gay and bisexual young men's perceptions of barriers to PrEP information and uptake	4
‘My choice, my responsibility’: views of Danish and Israeli female students on financing egg-freezing	4
Non-binary narratives: subjectivation and lived experiences in contemporary Italy	4
Bleeding beyond binaries: a critical interpretive review of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming experiences with menstruation	4
‘It changes everything’: the impact of HIV-related stigma on sexual health and intimacy among African American women	4
Self-care practices during the gender transition of Costa Rican transgender men	4
The ongoing and contentious coverage of abortion in a progressive context: a long-term cross-outlet assessment of Dutch abortion news (2000–2022)	4
Co-worker dynamics among Canadian sex workers in a stigmatised and criminalised environment	4
Communicating sexual health to the incarcerated population: information dissemination in a US sample of inmate handbooks	3
Coming across a hidden problem in an excluded population in Sweden: professionals’ experiences of young migrants’ disclosures of sexual violence	3
‘It does not make the taboo go away’—women’s reactions to menstrual products advertisement videos	3
Women’s perspectives on barriers to potential PrEP uptake for HIV prevention: HIV risk assessment, relationship dynamics and stigma	3
Sexual self-representation in digital media	3
Sexual minority men’s experiences of, and strategies for emotional intimacy in intimate partner relationships	3
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
Taking matters into our own hands? Hierarchies of power and knowledge in online framings of IUD self-removal	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
‘I never see anyone like myself represented in discussions about endometriosis’: priorities of LGBTQIA + endometriosis patients in New Zealand	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
Breaking the silence: women’s resistance to menstrual shame on the Xiaohongshu social media platform	3
Pampalibog : chemsex, desire and pleasure in the Philippines	3
Blessing of the moon: cultural beliefs, birth timing and child health in Nepal	3
Good servant, bad master: How eighty women perceive the influence of pornography on sexual scripts	3
‘If we take the engine out, how will the car go?’: beliefs, understanding and access to vasectomy services in Timor-Leste	3
Stepping out of secrecy: heterosexuality, quality of life, and experiences of HIV peer navigation in Australia	3
Missing voices: building women living with HIV’s meaningful engagement in HIV clinical and cure research	3
Self-diagnosing the end of pregnancy after medication abortion	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
“‘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	3
Identity and pregnancy in conflict?: an examination of sexual minority women using qualitative description	3
‘Without support, you are just alone’: relational food insecurity among a sample of gay men in India	3
The scarlet V: how women with dyspareunia negotiate postfeminist discourses of sexual agency	3
Relationship impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions on young women and men in Durban and Soweto, South Africa	3
Narrative strategies to re-signify sexual violence among gender and sexuality diverse Central American migrants in Tijuana	3
Intersectional vulnerabilities and differential impacts of COVID-19 responses on young people who sell sex in Zimbabwe	3
‘It’s not a me thing’: the role of transcendence and critical politics in Black LGBTQ wellness in Montreal	3
Young adult writers’ thoughts on healthy pornography	2
Gendered meanings and mechanisms of intimacy for people living with chronic pain	2
Communicative appeals and messaging frames in visual media for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis promotion to cisgender and transgender women	2
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and or queer patient experiences in Canadian primary care and emergency departments: a literature review	2
Swingers and swinging: a critical review of early and current literature and theory	2
Media representation, perception and stigmatisation of race, sexuality and HIV among young black gay and bisexual men	2
The medical consultation as a site for governing abortion	2

Submit to survive: an exploration of sexual cleansing as an act of violence against widows in the Luo community of Kenya	2
Agency in young people’s unsafe abortion trajectories in Papua New Guinea	2
Navigating cultural and gender aspects of stigma among women living with HIV in Vietnam	2
LGBTQ+ disclosure: challenges and possibilities	2
A qualitative exploration of perceptions of anal sex: implications for sex education and sexual health services in England	2
Danger and sexuality: exploring negotiations in romantic and sexual relationships among university students in Ghana	2
A fertility app for two? Women’s perspectives on sharing conceptive fertility work with male partners	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
Gender, romantic relationships and sexual health in Mexico: Parents’ experiences of discussion with their children	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
Cultural taboos and low sexual and reproductive health literacy among university students in Magway city, Myanmar	2
Adapting to poverty and dealing with gender: a comparative perspective on teenage pregnancy in the Peruvian Amazon	2
‘Parents are gudlists!’ Experiences of puberty and parent-child sexual communication in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	2
Unpacking cervical cancer stigma in healthcare: lessons learnt from Indonesian patients and health professionals	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
The politics of LGBT+ suicide and suicide prevention in the UK: risk, responsibility and rhetoric	2
Managing the business of sex: swinger club managers and sexual health promotion	2
Shifting meanings of HIV among Mapuche people in Chile: transmission, diagnosis and treatment narratives	2
Fertility intentions and family size among married men in Khartoum, Sudan	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
Trusted networks: a study of communication flow and access to abortion information in Argentina	2
How young Australian women explain their use of condoms, withdrawal and fertility awareness: a qualitative analysis of free-text comments from the CUPID study	2
Young people’s perceptions of young women’s engagement in sexting	2
More than prevention: early adoption of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by gay and bisexual men in New Zealand	2
Sexuality and gender change efforts in Malaysia – proximal stressors and mental ill-health amongst LGBT+ adults	2
Disability, culture, and erased sexuality: curated raw narratives of disabled women with significant impairments in India	2
Gender equity and intimate partner violence among adolescents and young adults in Tanzania	2
Disclosure, outing and family reactions: experiences of gender and sexuality diverse individuals in Harare, Zimbabwe	2
Community perspectives on Female Genital Mutilation in the Kuria community in Kitunda – Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania	2
Barriers to family planning through structural health vulnerabilities: findings from case studies from rural Uganda	2
Virality, desire and health assemblages: mapping (dis)continuities in the response to and management of HIV and COVID-19	2
Preparing to play: a thematic analysis of bottom training in gay men’s fist-play	2
Experiences of, and motivations for, disclosing HIV to social and familial networks: considering the social and relational domains of HIV disclosure	2
Women at crossroads: a qualitative study of induced abortion and violence in a Ghanaian region	2
Abortion: Autonomy, Anxiety and Exile – Editorial Introduction to a CHS Collection	1
‘Surviving and thriving’: intersectional stigma and resilience of dual minority identities among Chinese gay and bisexual men living with HIV	1
“Having a guru is like having a licence”: analysing financial relationships between khwaja sira gurus and chelas in Swat, Pakistan	1
‘I just LOVE data’: perceptions and practices of data sharing and privacy among users of the Lioness	1
‘Having children is like rain, as they say in our region’: exploring refugees’ reproductive agency	1
‘Keep your eyes open’: HBCU women’s peer sexual advice and the (re)production of vigilance	1
Between cultures and traditions: a qualitative investigation of sexual and reproductive health experiences of immigrant adolescents in Canada	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
‘How do I really want to be as a man?’ Masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraceptive decision-making – findings from an interview study in Germany	1
Navigating through menstrual health experiences of educated urban individuals who menstruate during the COVID-19 lockdown: a study from India	1
Improving menstrual equity in the USA: perspectives from trans and non-binary people assigned female at birth and health care providers	1
First Nations music and social emotional wellbeing and health among LGBTIQA+SB First Nations peoples: a review of the literature	1
Developing critical HIV health literacy: insights from interviews with priority migrant communities in Queensland, Australia	1
Using the behaviour change wheel to examine facilitators and barriers to assertive contraception-use conversations for Indonesian women	1
Asked to be a sperm donor: disclosure dilemmas of gay men living with HIV	1
‘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 countries	1
Counselling men involved in unintended pregnancy	1
Using systems thinking to leverage adolescent sexual and reproductive health in rural Latino communities	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
‘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
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, Ghana	1
Changes in ageing women’s sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective: security, caring, and desire	1
Family planning in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: personal beliefs, intimate partner negotiations and social pressure	1
Fertility preservation and protection: young women’s decision-making about contraceptive use in Zimbabwe	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
The role of activists’ sexual orientation and gender identity in their participation in LGBT movements: a case study from Yunnan, China	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
Intersecting gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation identities and HIV stigma: results from the People Living with HIV Stigma Index study in three provinces in Canada	1
‘This is what's going to heal our kids’: bringing the Sexy Health Carnival into Indigenous cultural gatherings	1
‘People need to know we exist!’: an exploratory study of the labour experiences of transmasculine and non-binary sex workers and implications for harm reduction	1
Parental attitudes towards sexual orientation and gender diversity: challenging LGBT discrimination in Australian schools	1
The invisibility of Black and Latina women in sexual health care: shifting from biological individualism to intersectionality	1
Prep-Tok: a queer critical discourse analysis of TikToks regarding HIV-related pre-exposure prophylaxis	1
Understanding social capital among young black gay and bisexual men living with HIV: a qualitative exploration	1
Interpersonal scripts and sexual communication: experiences and perspectives of young people in St. Petersburg, Russia	1
Contraceptive decision making among Chinese international students in Melbourne: findings from a qualitative investigation	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
Women’s orgasms in Senegal: an exploratory mixed methods study of orgasm frequency, pleasure, and meaning among Senegalese women	1
Photodiagnosis of genital herpes and warts: a sociomaterial perspective on users’ experiences of online sexual health care	1
Childfree activism and reproductive norms in the 21st century	1
A conceptual framework for queer, black womxn sexual assault survivors: an adaptation of the minoritised stress model	1
‘Sometimes white doctors are not very friendly or inclusive’: a Critical Race Theory analysis of racism within and beyond sexual health settings	1
Viral times, viral memories, viral questions	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
Association of traditional marital practices with contraceptive decision-making, couple communication, and method use among couples in rural Maharashtra, India	1
Perceptions of healthcare accessibility and medical mistrust among Black women living with HIV in the USA	1
‘Every slap demeans me’: at the intersection of disability, masculinity and intimate partner violence in the Global South	1
Transnational AIDS networks, regional solidarities and the configuration of meti in Nepal	1