Search Results - "Sexualities"

The shifting terrain of sex and power: From the ‘sexualization of culture’ to #MeToo by Gill, Rosalind, Orgad, Shani

“…It is an honour to be part of the 20th anniversary celebrations for Sexualities and to have the opportunity to express appreciation for the space the journal…”
Get full text

Resistance to sex work stigma by Weitzer, Ronald

“…Stigma is ubiquitous in sex work and is well documented in studies of sex workers. But rarely have scholars examined the vital question of whether, and if so…”
Get full text

Critical chemsex studies: Interrogating cultures of sexualized drug use beyond the risk paradigm by Møller, Kristian, Hakim, Jamie

“…This article proposes and outlines a critical approach to the study of chemsex. The vast majority of chemsex research takes place within the broad field of…”
Get full text

The coloniality of queer theory: The effects of “homonormativity” on transnational Taiwan’s path to equality by Kao, Ying-Chao

“…This study extends the “Queer” Asias critique to deconstruct the coloniality of queer theory in transnational Taiwan. Focusing on Duggan’s critique of…”
Get full text

On the enduring relationship between masculinity and homophobia by Diefendorf, Sarah, Bridges, Tristan

“…Recent research in the social sciences suggests a methodological paradox as scholars work to make sense of the contemporary relationship between masculinity…”
Get full text

‘Party and Play’: Online hook-up devices and the emergence of PNP practices among gay men by Race, Kane

“…This article situates online hook-up devices as an emergent infrastructure of the sexual encounter that has become popular among homosexually attracted men in…”
Get full text

Chemsex cultures: Subcultural reproduction and queer survival by Florêncio, João

“…“Chemsex” emerged in the 21st century as the gay and bisexual male practice of taking drugs during sexual encounters in order to modulate pleasures, promote…”
Get full text

Hanging, blowing, slamming and playing: Erotic control and overflow in a digital chemsex scene by Møller, Kristian

“…Based on participant observation, this article details the use of methamphetamine (crystal meth) in a social scene mediated by a video conferencing service…”
Get full text

Introduction: Parenting, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. Critical and queer perspectives by Klesse, Christian, Cardoso, Daniel, Pallotta-Chiarolli, Maria, Raab, Michael, Schadler, Cornelia, Schippers, Mimi

“…This special issue explores key issues regarding the parenting practices within polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous intimate relationships. The…”
Get full text

Injecting as a sexual practice: Cultural formations of ‘slamsex’ by Race, Kane, Murphy, Dean, Pienaar, Kiran, Lea, Toby

“…‘Slamsex’ has emerged in gay vernacular in recent years to denote a particular way of taking drugs and a particular kind of sex. Slamming refers in this…”
Get full text

Is consent enough? What the research on normative heterosexuality and sexual violence tells us by Jeffrey, Nicole K

“…In this paper, I first critically review previous research on normative heterosexuality and its intersections with sexual violence to demonstrate that the…”
Get full text

Fucking with homonormativity: The ambiguous politics of chemsex by Mowlabocus, Sharif

“…One would not typically think of chemsex as a practice structured by the same political ideology that spawned ‘the new homonormativity’. For one thing, the gay…”
Get full text

From TERF to gender critical: A telling genealogy? by Thurlow, Claire

“…Over the last 5 years the UK has seen a significant rise in the prominence of trans-exclusionary feminism. What was once termed TERF (trans-exclusionary…”
Get full text

Forgotten lives: Trans older adults living with dementia at the intersection of cisgenderism, ableism/cogniticism and ageism by Baril, Alexandre, Silverman, Marjorie

“…There is little research at the international level to help us understand the experiences and needs of trans people living with dementia, despite population…”
Get full text

‘Traditional values’ and the narrative of gay rights as modernity: Sexual politics beyond polarization by Edenborg, Emil

“…Examining the Russian state’s turn to ‘traditional values’ in the 2010s, this article aims to understand traditionalist state discourses in a global context…”
Get full text

Being recognized in an algorithmic system: Cruel optimism in gay visibility on Douyin and Zhihu by Wang, Shuaishuai, Zhou, Oscar Tianyang

“…Drawing upon “algorithmic ethnography” (Christin, 2020), this article enrolls algorithms to gather qualitative data to examine how Chinese social media…”
Get full text

Play, secrecy and consent: Theorizing privacy breaches and sensitive data in the world of networked sex toys by Sundén, Jenny

“…Based on a new materialist analysis of “vibrant matter” to understand the liveliness of sexual objects in toy-based sexual play, in this article I investigate…”
Get full text

“The queers hate me because I’m too butch”: Goldilocks masculinity among non-heterosexual men by Winer, Canton

“…A growing body of scholarship finds that hegemonic masculinity is evolving to produce hybrid masculinities that contain elements of both dominant and…”
Get full text

Digital kink obscurity: A sexual politics beyond visibility and comprehension by Sundén, Jenny

“…Based on an interview-driven ethnographic study of the Swedish digital BDSM, fetish and kink platform Darkside, this article explores digital kink expressions…”
Get full text

Performing smart sexual selves: A sexual scripting analysis of youth talk about internet pornography by Healy-Cullen, Siobhan, Morison, Tracy, Taylor, Joanne E, Taylor, Kris

“…In this article, we explore young New Zealanders’ use of sexual scripts in talk about Internet pornography (IP) to perform ‘smart’ sexual selves. Using sexual…”
Get full text