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Papers

(The median citation count of Sexual and Relationship Therapy 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Associations between daily positive communication and sexual desire and satisfaction: an approach utilizing traditional analyses and machine learning	20
Found family: connection and community as transgender practitioners and researchers	20
Asking for MORE: a phenomenological exploration of the dyadic coming out process in mixed orientation relationships	20
DIADICS: a proof-of-concept study in mixed-sex couples	18
Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of ENRICH scale for marital satisfaction in Pashto	12
The use of sex toys in trans and nonbinary individuals’ sexuality	11
Sexual satisfaction and marital intimacy in Iranian male pornography users	10
Editorial Introduction: Sexual and Relationship Therapy Best Article of the Year Award 2022	9
Impact of Female Genital Self-Image on sexual function and associated risk factors	9
Sexuality was my antidepressant or anxiolytic during covid19 lockdown. Sexual behaviours as a coping strategy during the first covid-19 lockdown in France	8
Minority stressors and psychological correlates of sexual distress among Black queer and heterosexual women	8
Fair play : a review	7
In their own words: getting it right for kink clients	7
Tantra with a Twist: application of an ancient spiritual practice for modern relational communication	7
The wife, the mother, and the slut: sexual pleasure for the Filipino woman a grounded theory approach	7
Educational programs and counseling models for improving postpartum sexual health: a narrative review	7
Are we ready to serve? Couple and family therapists’ attitudes toward BDSM and their perceived competence to help BDSM practitioners	7
The role of partner support in infertility-related quality of life in couples seeking fertility treatment	6
Sexuality is not age-related: an interview study	6
The buffering effect of religious belief on the associations between perceived female sexual pain and partner sexual and relationship satisfaction	6
From secrecy to openness: sexual satisfaction in couples from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints	5
Health, depression, and marital processes as they relate to sexual satisfaction and harmonious sexual passion: a biopsychosocial model	5
Sensate focus: addressing potential preconceived notions of black sexuality	5
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Affirmative Consent Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Affirmative Consent ,	4
Correction	4

Exploring differences in Black heterosexual and queer women’s sexual experiences through a Black queer feminist lens	4
Sexual beliefs and sexual goals are associated with gender, relationship characteristics, and life satisfaction	4
Using spiritual discernment to heal clients wounded by religiously repressive sexual beliefs	4
Editorial introduction	4
Minority stress in consensually non-monogamous individuals: mental health implications	4
Needing to be “perfect” to be loved: the intersection of body dysmorphic disorder, sexual identity, and gay culture in gay men. A qualitative study	4
Age-hypogamy, emotional intelligence, sexual self-efficacy, and subjective happiness associations	4
Context of pornography consumption and sexual desire in romantic relationships	3
Editorial introduction	3
Validation of the French sexual mindfulness measure and its links with psychosexual well-being	3
The end story of unconsummated marriage by male factors or honeymoon impotence: a systematic review	3
Deconstructing Europe’s prejudices: a critical media review of transphobia, racism, and identity politics through the lens of Emilia Perez	3
Secrecy and deception: values, shame, and endorsement of hiding one’s pornography viewing	3
Re-membering body and spirit through spiritual practices of sexual wholeness	3
Relationship between personality traits and emotional schema with loneliness in Iranian people with gender dysphoria: the mediating role of mindfulness	3
‘You feel like you’re drifting apart’: a qualitative study of impacts of endometriosis on sex and intimacy amongst heterosexual couples	3
Towards a trans inclusive practice: thinking difference differently	3
Editorial Introduction	3
Held back by limited experience, training, and therapeutic confidence: self-perceptions of Czech mental health professionals about addressing paraphilic-related concerns	3
Sexual communication in Chinese heterosexual couples: the efficacy of online Sensate Focus intervention and correlations with relational and sexual outcomes	3
Assessing and understanding body image and body satisfaction in gay and bisexual men through objectification theory	2
Let’s talk about it: The teen’s guide to sex, relationships, and being a human	2
A new avenue to pathologize sexual minority populations? Internalized sexual stigma and endorsement of compulsive sexual behavior disorder	2
Gender beliefs and internalized homophobia shape sexual self-labeling and partner choice in gay and bisexual men in China	2
Transmission of sexual mores within the orthodox Jewish context and its implications for therapists	2
Are sex therapy and God, strange bedfellows? Case studies illuminating the intersection of client sexuality with spirituality, religion, faith or belief practices	2
Having sex with partners met online among bachelors in China: application of the theory of planned behavior	2
Sexual dysfunction in relationship obsessive compulsive disorder	2
Mechanism of the association between men’s self-perceived attractiveness and sexual interest perception: the mediating paths of positive and negative mating efficacies	2
Editorial	2
Men’s sexual distress: the role of body image and vulnerable narcissistic traits	1
Introduction	1
Micro-dosing psychedelics as a plausible adjunct to psychosexual and couple’s therapy: a qualitative insight	1
Neuroticism’s ties to relationship satisfaction: the role of conflict tactic behaviors	1
Asexual identity development and internalisation: a thematic analysis	1
Queering the 7-eyed model of clinical supervision	1
An analysis of practitioners Journaled experiences of Orgasmic Meditation (OM)	1
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of FeelingPleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling, by adrienne maree brown. Chico, CA: AK Press, (2019). 464 pp., $20 (USA).	1
Special issue on gender diversity editorial introduction	1
Systematic literature review on comprehensive sexuality education intervention	1
The identity development and internalization of asexual orientation in women: an interpretative phenomenological analysis	1
Description of how men achieve multiple orgasms	1
Advances in theory and new information on the effect of trauma	1
List of reviewers	1
Male Homosexuality in Children’s Literature, 1867–1918: Young Uranians 1st edition	1
Relationship desire and life satisfaction among never-married and divorced men and women	1
Integration of sexual and relational mental representations in autobiographical memories is associated with sexual well-being	1
Distressing sexual difficulties and sexual victimization in emerging Croatian adults: results from a population-based study	1
Sex for health? How sexual activity improves physical and mental health and beyond	1
A couples’ relationship education intervention examining sexual mindfulness and trait mindfulness	1

Compulsive Sexual Behaviours: A Psycho-Sexual Treatment Guide for Clinicians	1
Body image and sexual function in women with breast cancer	1
Review: Money Shot: the Pornhub Story	1
Changes in sexuality and couple relationship during the COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal: findings from an online survey	1
Sexual body self-representations, desire, and functioning in women	1
Female sexual desire and trait-affect: the mediator role of depressed mood	1
When two is too few: Addressing polyamorous clients in therapy	1
Obesity, marital satisfaction and depression affect Iranian female sexual function	1
The relationship between age-gap relationships/dating, sexual function, relationship satisfaction, sexual self-efficacy and well-being	1
Turkish validity and reliability of the Transgender Identity Survey in a population with gender dysphoria	1
Sexual modes questionnaire (SMQ): Spanish translation, adaptation, and preliminary evidence of psychometric properties in a Colombian sample	1
Correlations of stress, anxiety, depression, sexual function, and marital adjustment among nurses	1
Investigating psychometric measures of sexual wellbeing: a systematic review	1
Clinical reviews editorial: highlighting sexual potential with sexual locations	1
Longitudinal associations between attachment, differentiation of self, and couple sexual and relational outcomes	1
Sex satisfaction – science? Or fathomed?	1
Clinician knowledge, training, and experience working with pansexual youth	1
Sexual Integration Therapy: a sex-positive sexual health model supporting authentic sexual expression, while addressing sexual compulsivity, shame, fear and trauma	1