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Sexualities
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.692

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ISSN (Print) 1363-4607 - ISSN (Online) 1461-7382
Published by Sage Publications

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Data like any other' Sexual and reproductive health, Big Data and the
Sustainable Development Goals
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  Authors: Natalie Hammond, Angelo Moretti
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines the possibilities and pitfalls of using Big Data to address sexual and reproductive health concerns as related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), paying particular attention to contextual difference in development settings. The global datafication of sexual and reproductive life has taken place at great speed. However, evidential deficiencies and a lack of critical engagement of the specific issues around working with sexual and reproductive health Big Data in development contexts is apparent. Informed by critical data studies, and framed by a political economy perspective which calls attention to power structures, we seek to deepen our understanding of the role and challenges that Big Data around sexual and reproductive health in the Low and Middle-Income Countries can play in addressing the SDGs. First, we explore the ways in which sexual datafication processes produce Big Data. We then consider how such Big Data could directly contribute to addressing the SDGs beyond simply monitoring and evaluating. Next, we unpick how the sensitive and stigmatised nature of sexual and reproductive health can have ramifications in data-driven contexts where significant power asymmetries exist. By doing so, we provide a more nuanced articulation of the challenges of datafication by contextualising the stigma around sexual and reproductive in a datafied context. We argue that whilst Big Data in relation to sexual and reproductive health shows potential to support the SDGs, there are specificities that must be considered to ensure that the push for data-driven approaches does no harm.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-05-25T02:30:50Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231152599
‘Looking back, I don’t quite recognise myself’: Narratives of the
past in prostitution
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  Authors: Theresa Dyrvig Henriksen, Margaretha Järvinen
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This paper uses George Herbert Mead’s theory on time and the self in an analysis of qualitative interviews with sex sellers in Denmark. We show how exit from prostitution is associated with a gradual change of participants’ conceptions of commercial sex, bringing them in alignment with a ‘social problems’ approach to prostitution. From being conceptualised as a predominantly positive phenomenon, associated with ‘easy money’, power/self-affirmation and thrill, prostitution becomes a predominantly negative phenomenon, associated with ‘hard-to-earn-money’, subordination and repulsion. When transforming their conceptions of commercial sex, participants take over the view on prostitution that is dominant in Danish society – a view that defines commercial sex as inherently problematic and sex sellers as a ‘vulnerable group’ in need of rescue.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-05-11T05:53:29Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231174536
Gratitude to Ken Plummer
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  Authors: Gloria González-López
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The author weaves her favorite quotes from Ken Plummer’s celebrated book, Telling Sexual Stories with her own voice to offer a modest tribute and express her gratitude to him. In this exercise of creative writing, she celebrates his contributions to her intellectual and professional growth as a feminist ethnographer, a witness to endless sexual stories with populations of Mexican origin in both countries, the United States and Mexico. The author reflects on the priceless lessons she learned from him, since that day she listened to him from a corner at the American Sociological Association conference, when she was a shy graduate student.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-05-10T10:51:15Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231168969
Ken Plummer’s contributions to the study of sexualities and beyond
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  Authors: Travis SK Kong, Arlene Stein
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This special issue pays tribute to and critically engages with the work of Ken Plummer, the founder of this journal. A distinguished sociologist who taught at the University of Essex for thirty years, Ken died last November, at age 76. We conceived of this issue two years ago, long before we anticipated his untimely death. Answering our call, several scholars offered considerations of the significance of his work.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-05-06T03:20:33Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231171381
“A very risky queer thing to do”: In conversation with Ken
Plummer
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  Authors: Arlene Stein, Travis S. K. Kong
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  A conversation about the different generational experiences of LGBT academics and the changing status of sexuality and queer studies. Ken Plummer, Arlene Stein and Travis Kong, longtime colleagues and sociologists of sexuality, share their insights. They discuss how different generational contexts and geographic locations shape sexuality studies. They acknowledge the ways Ken's work, and the efforts of his generation of activist-scholars, played a pivotal foundational role in establishing LGBT studies. They consider the relationship between queer theory and sociologies of homosexuality, and the growing importance of digital media. In conclusion, they discuss how neoliberalisation and authoritarian movements are impacting intellectual work.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-05-05T04:34:15Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231171387
Homo narrans: A transdisciplinary reading of Ken Plummer’s narrative
sociology
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  Authors: Rebecca Babirye, James Farrer
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The most significant and lasting contributions of Ken Plummer to the sociology of sexuality have been his work on sexual storytelling. Best represented in Plummer’s 1995 book Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds, this approach to sexuality made two key points. One is that sexual storytelling is fundamental to the formation of individual sexual identities and a process of sexual self-discovery. The second is that sexual storytelling is a key social process in a broader sexual politics and struggles for “intimate citizenship.” Plummer’s work has significance, however, far beyond studies a simple model of sexual identity formation. Building upon a review of the research literature citing Plummer as well our own research, this essay explores three dimensions of Plummer’s narrative sociology that include but also take us beyond sexuality studies. One is Plummer’s contribution to the concept of “storytelling” as anti-foundationalist social ontology practice. The second is narrative sociology as humanistic methodology. The third is the significance of the narrative method for a dialogic pedagogy, not only in teaching about sexuality but also in other areas of social life.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-05-04T08:19:35Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231171383
Contested intersections: Asexuality and disability, illness, or trauma
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  Authors: Anna Kurowicka
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article analyzes the personal writings of asexual people for whom their identity is connected to disability, illness, or trauma. Asexuality is typically understood as an inherent sexual orientation that is neither caused by nor linked to disability or physiological and psychological issues. This approach has allowed asexuality to be widely accepted as an element of human sexual diversity and protects asexual people against unwanted medical intervention. Yet, disability, illness, or trauma informs some asexual people’s sexuality. Attending to their perspectives results in broadening contemporary conceptualizations of asexuality beyond the model of essentialist sexual orientation and contributes to destigmatizing asexual identities that are entangled with disability, illness, or trauma.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-05-04T08:02:46Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231170781
BDSM and total power exchange: Between inclusion and exclusion
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  Authors: Ofer Parchev
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  In recent decades, BDSM as a form of power exchange has gained partial recognition and social inclusion in the public sphere. The inclusive process comes with the price of excluding concrete behaviors and thought patterns that are considered dangerous and pathological. This exclusion/inclusion process is conducted in the framework of the production of consensual biopolitical knowledge and in the context of the normalization of sex. Under these conditions, the total power exchange master/slave relationship, which is realized through a full-time power exchange encounter, suffers from the exclusion mechanism, as it is incompatible with the inclusive reason. In the course of this paper, I will examine the exclusion process of the master/slave total power exchange under the constitutive mechanism of the BDSM discursive rules in order to expose a new form of thinking and behavior that challenges the biopower reason, while simultaneously operating within its limitations.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-28T09:11:34Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231170320
Journeying with Ken Plummer through radical constructionism, critical
humanism and intimate counterpublics
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  Authors: Christian Klesse
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Ken Plummer’s life work has had a major impact on the development of the sociology of sexuality. While being firmly rooted in and committed to the traditions of pragmatism and symbolic interactionism – which chimes nicely with his philosophical stance of critical humanism – Ken Plummer openly engaged in a critical dialogue with many theoretical perspectives. This renders his work a rich resource for researchers working on sexualities from within different paradigms. This paper engages in a critical appraisal of some of Plummer’s most significant concepts through autobiographical reflection on my personal experience of working with Ken Plummer as a PhD student, further tracing the influence his work has had on my own writing on consensual non-monogamies, LGBTQIA + activism and queer film festivals. Using autoethnography and memory work, the essay highlights the powerful potential residing in Plummer’s path-breaking contributions to social constructionism (script theory and narrative power), methodology (personal documents), narrative sociology (sexual stories), critical humanism (dialogical ethics and cosmopolitan sexualities) and political sociology (intra-movement conflict, intimate citizenship, counterpublics and age standpoints). The essay argues that these ideas – and Plummer’s overall legacy as a scholar and theorist – bear a strong significance for future research in sexuality studies.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-27T04:25:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231171384
Ken Plummer, editor
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  Authors: Feona Attwood
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Many of the relationships described in this special issue, put together to honour the work of Ken Plummer, focus on Essex connections, intergenerational friendships, or particular intellectual concerns such as symbolic interactionism or citizenship.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-24T03:42:49Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231171319
Editorial on Ken Plummer
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  Authors: Agnes Skamballis
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-21T10:23:11Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231172419
Young women’s sexual agency, relationality, and vulnerability: The
Israeli case study of “attacking”
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  Authors: Rachel Levi Herz, Miri Rozmarin
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The sexual agency of young women is constructed within various discourses that articulate multiple and conflicting social imperatives, such that they need to account for their sexual and social vulnerability while expressing their sexuality. This paper uses a common Israeli heteronormative youth practice called “attacking” to analyze young women’s sexual agency. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 39 young women aged 18–23, it explores how young women express their sexual agency while managing their vulnerability. Analyzed using a theory of vulnerability, our findings point to unique forms of relational agency that support young women’s subjective sexual expressions. The findings highlight the duality and ambiguities that young women face in spaces of “attacking,” showing how their agency is supported relationally by emerging alliances based on joint vulnerability. Based on these findings, this paper challenges the dichotomy between social forces and agency and establishes a conceptualization of relational agency with regard to young women’s sexuality.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-21T07:12:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231170847
Playing with straight lines and queer times: Children engaging with
romantic love within and beyond heteronormative temporalities
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  Authors: Lena Sotevik
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores how life schedules and life courses that are organized chronologically become part of normalized heterosexuality in children’s conversations and play. The analysis draws on ethnographic data from a Swedish preschool, focusing on situations where children engage with themes such as romantic love, kisses and weddings. Queer temporal perspectives are applied to challenge how normativity and norm-challenging are perceived, not least in relation to how desirable futures for children are displayed. The article shows that children engage with love discourses in ways that both reproduce and challenge heteronormativity and linear temporalities in normative life course and life schedules.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-21T06:11:04Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231171323
An “Academic Homosexual”: Ken Plummer and the National
Deviancy Conference
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  Authors: Janice M Irvine
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Like all scholars, Ken’s work was shaped at the intersection of his personal experiences and the complexities of his historical moment. And in the late 1960s and early 1970s, becoming an “academic homosexual” was no simple task. Both grassroots and academic scholars, whose publications would later be considered part of the gay canon, worked in obscurity.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-19T06:34:35Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231168988
Appreciation, admiration and affection
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  Authors: Jeff Hearn
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  As you get older, a couple of things happen – the probability of your own dying increases, and so too does that of friends. So, recently there have been the deaths of some very good friends and colleagues.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-19T06:31:37Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231168975
Ken Plummer: What it is to be human
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  Authors: Jeffrey Weeks
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Ken Plummer’s career embraced a range of interests, and disparate interventions but is marked by a remarkable consistency, rooted in a profound humanistic understanding of the social world. This is most fully expressed in his most recent publication, Critical Humanism, but is a leitmotif throughout his writings since the early 1970s. Whilst many of his contemporaries engaged in wild flirtations with every intellectual fashion from anti-humanism to post-humanisms, and whatever lies between, over the past half-century, Plummer has remained faithful to his early moral and theoretical interests whilst being sharply alert to every nuance and subtlety of contemporary debate. He is one of the most knowledgeable of sociologists, a fluent theorist but also a passionate and committed teacher who strives to communicate as widely as possible. And throughout his life and work, over many years, you can still trace the impact of a critical moment, his engagement with gay liberation from 1970 which profoundly shaped his trajectory as a scholar and engaged intellectual. This essay focuses on a number of key themes, Sexual Stigma, Sexual Stories, Intimate Citizenship, and Critical Humanism that together offer a story of Ken Plummer’s engagement with his overarching theme: what it is to be human.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-19T06:29:58Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231170117
Hypercategorization and hypersexualization: How webcam platforms organize
performers and performances
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  Authors: Hanne M Stegeman, Olav Velthuis, Emilija Jokubauskaitė, Thomas Poell
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Webcam sex platforms simultaneously host thousands of live performances. To allow users to explore these, platforms categorize. On porn sites, this has led to extremely detailed, hypercategorized classification systems. Developing the concept of “categorization regime,” which refers to all categorization options on a platform, we examine hypercategorization on 50 webcam sex platforms. In the heavily stigmatized, yet immensely popular, webcam sex industry hypercategorization shapes working environments and conceptions of desirability. Through critical content analysis, we find that the examined platforms, employing over 1700 unique categories, categorize in detailed, messy, and elaborate ways. Analyzing examples from categorization systems for gender, ethnicity and body type, the article demonstrates that these categories both celebrate diversity and offer earning opportunities, yet also reinforce regressive discriminatory and fetishizing narratives about marginalized groups of webcam performers.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-18T01:48:01Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231170174
Fangirling and a sociology of fucking
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  Authors: RF Plante
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The last time I saw Ken Plummer was in Lancaster, England in 2018. He was gently and kindly listening to a younger sociologist talking about trying to do sexualities scholarship in a challenging British university environment.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-15T03:28:53Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231169517
Developing parenthood through giving birth to a dead child – bereaved
lesbian mothers’ maternity care experiences in Scandinavia
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  Authors: Idun Røseth, Dorte Hvidtjørn, Bente Dahl
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This phenomenological study uses in-depth interviews to explore how six lesbian couples experience the loss of a child in the perinatal period. Our findings revealed the importance of developing queer parenthood through a meaningful birthing space facilitated by a midwife and enabling time and space to recognize love and beauty in the couple’s grief. Suboptimal maternity care or insensitive comments related to their lesbian status complicated the loss, while care providers’ acknowledgement and sensitivity to the specific needs of queer couples enabled them to be present in the moment and recognize and process their loss.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-13T06:11:58Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231168962
Ken Plummer Memorial
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  Authors: Jodi O’Brien
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Jodi O'Brien remembers Ken Plummer.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-13T06:07:09Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231169513
Intimacy, gender and ethnicity: Non-monogamous relationship dynamics among
the Hui in Northwest China
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  Authors: Xuan NIU, Karen J. Laidler
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This study uses snowball sampling to explore the experiences of intimate and sexual relationships of non-monogamous marriages among the Hui ethnic group in northwestern China. It examines how Islam is socially expressed to culturally validate polygynous relations, and how the discourse of masculinity controls and shapes the definition of non-monogamous intimate relationships. This research suggests that moral and legal explanations for such non-monogamous relationships among the Hui are insufficient, and require an understanding of the intersections between Islam, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-13T04:00:54Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231168960
Queer legibility and the refugee status determination process
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  Authors: Lotte Wolff, Brandy Cochrane
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  It is well documented that LGBTIQ+ applicants face a multitude of stereotypes and biases from decision-makers worldwide. We build on literature that argues that there is an unspoken component of credibility – to what extent the applicant is legible to the decision-maker. Based on interviews with legal representatives of LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum in Australia, we observe that if the applicant’s narrative and label of their lived experience is familiar to the decision-maker, they are more likely to be understood by the decision-maker. Those whose experiences fall outside Western, and specifically Australian, conceptualisations of sexuality and gender identity categories are less legible to the decision-maker, than those who present a dominant, definitive, and stable identity narrative that is ‘out and proud’. Importantly, this paper also found that legal representatives shepherd applicants towards a clear label to perform an identity that is understood, or knowable to decision-makers.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-12T07:39:08Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231168768
The Black pill pipeline: A process-tracing analysis of the Incel’s
continuum of violent radicalization
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  Authors: Robert Green, Kurt Fowler, Allan Palombi
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Incels represent a subculture born on the Internet and unified by their inability to establish and maintain sexual relationships with women. When new members enter, they are placed at the beginning of a subcultural process that uses their shared experience to introduce them to increasingly radical viewpoints. In order to analyze Incel subculture, this research uses a purposive sample of on-line discussion boards of Incel culture and traces the subcultural process of radicalization. Findings suggest that Incels use a series of increasingly radical “pills” to denote their position within the subculture and move new and prospective members along an ever increasing pipeline of extremism resulting in both advocating for and approval of violence.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-11T05:34:50Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231169509
Queerly departed: Queer viral socialities and Caribbean migrant desires
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  Authors: David AB Murray
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  In this paper I explore the transnational journeys of a group of queer HIV positive (HIV+) Caribbean migrants moving between Canada and the Caribbean. I focus on queer orientations and viral statuses as key nodes of subjectivity and/or sociality that may combine in different ways to produce (re)orientations (qua Ahmed 2006) and new social relationships—queer viral socialities—that generate migratory desires and journeys across transnational borders. However, queer HIV+ migrants from Global South locations like the Caribbean often encounter difficulties crossing Global North borders designed to facilitate entry for select categories of acceptable migrants. Acknowledging the productive yet unpredictable interactions of queer viral orientations and socialities that generate migratory desires and journeys alongside the harsh surveillance and disciplinary actions of nation-states’ border security regimes draws attention to the intersectionality and complexity of subjectivities, socialities, desires, and movements of queer HIV+ Caribbean migrants specifically, and transnational migrants more generally as they navigate the barriers and inequities of state migration apparatuses.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-11T05:19:30Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231168992
Mobile intimacies' Uncertainty, ambivalence and fluidity in the intimate
practices of dating app users in Germany and the UK
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  Authors: Andrea Newerla, Jenny van Hooff
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Research on dating app practices has drawn on a dichotomous conception of love and sex, with users viewed as seeking either casual sex or a committed relationship. Drawing on qualitative interview data with dating app users in Germany and the UK, our analysis suggests the that the love/sex dichotomy fails to fully account for participants’ experiences. We argue that rather than imposing a normative framework, we should recognise the potentiality of movement and openness in app-based dating practices. We also challenge the critique of dating apps as entirely transactional, and instead argue that the emergence of what we identify as ‘mobile’ intimate practices demonstrate the diverse forms that intimacies can take within different relationships.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-11T05:04:30Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231168959
Interactions and intersections
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  Authors: Diane Richardson
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This ‘thank you note’ pays tribute, albeit briefly, to the enormous contribution Ken Plummer’s work has made to sociology and to the study of sexualities in particular. He played a pioneering role in developing social understandings of sexuality, highlighting the importance of everyday interactions and social encounters. More specifically, over his career he addressed a range of important issues including, for example, sexuality and narrative analysis, generational sexualities, the significance of queer, sexual and intimate citizenship and the need for global critical sexualities studies. Along the way, it also sketches out some of the ways his work criss-crossed and informed my own research and scholarship in enriching and stimulating ways.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-11T02:45:44Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231169001
Vexed in the city: Femme Failure in the World of Carrie Bradshaw and the
“Long-Winded Lady”
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  Authors: Edward O’Rourke
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Carrie Bradshaw, heroine of HBO’s Sex and the City, remains a talking point of pop culture. Tutued flâneuse, Bradshaw succeeds a long line of unconventional, feminist pathfinders, of whom Maeve Brennan’s Long-Winded Lady is arguably an early archetype. In her New Yorker dispatches, Brennan’s semi-autobiographical ‘dandette’ enacts a repudiation of the patriarchy by staking a claim to the public space of the city. This paper traces the resistant legacy of femme failure from Brennan to Bradshaw as single, non-reproductive women. Drawing on recent femme scholarship, it further explores the concept of paradoxical visibility in the lives of these fem(me)inine icons.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-04-07T03:30:01Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231160059
The ‘good gay’ versus chemsex: The articulation of a
homonormative response
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  Authors: Daniel Joloy
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Responses to chemsex have largely fluctuated between punishment, moral censure and indifference and have been weaponised to justify anti-drug policies and to protect established norms of gender and sexuality. As drug prohibition and heteronormativity interlock, men who engage in chemsex are finding themselves at an intersection of multiple systems of oppression that produce feelings of exclusion and rejection both from society in general and within growing numbers of LGBTQ+ spaces. This article explores specific notions of homonormativity performed by gay men as a way to advance their own recognition and respectability among society, resulting in the isolation of those who engage in chemsex who are ostracised simply for the way in which they have decided to express their sexualities. Such homonormative articulation of an open rejection of chemsex in exchange for social recognition and legal protection appears to have become an easy bargaining chip to show how “good gays” have moved away from historical markers of stigma, including drugs and HIV, making chemsex the most recent currency to publicly prove their disavowal of those who remain outside of the kinship norms of marriage and ‘normal sex’.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-03-25T06:20:06Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231158065
The Elle Woods effect: Being “girled” while reclaiming
girliness
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  Authors: Jocelyne Bartram Scott
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Using a case study of Elle Woods from Legally Blonde (2001), I assert that sorority communities are a prime example of the powerful impact of femmephobia in popular culture. Drawn from qualitative interview data with sorority women as well as media analysis and autoethnographic reflection, I use femme theory (Hoskin, 2017) and “girling” (Ahmed, 2017) to analyze a trend within my data that I label the “Elle Woods Effect.” Ultimately, I assert that the femmephobic dualistic tensions of the “Elle Woods Effect” demonstrate the off-screen impact of popular culture for femininized people and communities.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-03-23T02:37:44Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231164714
Mozambican “tolerance” toward homosexuality: Lusotropicalist
myth and homonationalism
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  Authors: Francisco PV Miguel
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  In this article, the result of ethnographic research on the LGBT community over the last five years in Mozambique, I will deal theoretically with a hegemonic elite discourse alleging tolerance of homosexuality in this country. I will review previous scholarly works on this theme and analyze the recurrence of this discourse among certain elite groups, such as local activists, journalists, and politicians. I conclude that this discourse is reminiscent of the Lusotropicalist myth transformed into a new kind of homonationalism and that it explicitly reverberates in the current political strategies of LGBT activism in Mozambique.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-03-16T03:01:33Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231160054
Jeffrey Escoffier
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  Authors: Arlene Stein, Etienne Meunier
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-03-10T11:32:53Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221136460
Editorial Introduction: Special Section on older-age migrants and
sexualities
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  Authors: Aija Lulle, Cornelia Schweppe
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Research on migration in older age has been flourishing during the recent years. However, motives and experiences related to love, sexuality and intimacy are still a sensitive desideratum in older-age migration research. The Special Section approaches this gap and encourages interdisciplinary research to further contribute to this field. We argue that older-age migration and sexuality are closely linked concepts that deserve nuanced attention across the broad social sciences themes of inequality, inclusion and self-expression and across diverse geographies.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-03-07T11:49:23Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231160055
‘It’s a generational thing, really’. Understandings of sexual rights
in a digital age
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  Authors: Sanna Spišák
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Deriving from a large-scale research project on intimacy in data-driven culture in Finland, I build on a sub-study examining Finland’s presumed sexual digital divide between generations. I analysed in-depth, semi-structured research discussions with six social media users who actively participated in the online discussion following the posting of a video on TikTok by the National Board of Investigation on the potential risks and dangers of sending nude images online. I wanted to know why this particular ‘awareness-raising video’ gained so much negative feedback from its young audiences on TikTok and other social media platforms. By using the idea of ‘generational sexualities’, I focus on the shared social imaginary the research participants seem to have on the sexual and digital divide between generations. As a result of my analysis, I propose that the idea of a generational gap regarding the digital modes of sexual engagement is a culturally and socially shared narrative contributing to a disconnective effect between the generations in sexual matters. Furthermore, the analysis of my research materials reveals that young people’s ‘full sexual rights’ operate as a specific generational narrative that organises and structures my research participants’ perspectives of what is inclusive and socially just sexual education. The educational efforts must go beyond risk and harm as ‘no-sexting’ educational materials may contribute to sexual discrimination and marginalisation, increase social inequality and negatively impact young people’s sexual wellbeing.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-03-03T09:42:16Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231160058
More bottoms than tops' Mediated sexual roles and masculinity assemblage
in Chinese gay communities
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  Authors: Zhiqiu Benson Zhou
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This paper examines the discursive production of “there are more 0s (bottoms) than 1s (tops)” in a mediated environment, and its implications on gay communities. It explores why many Chinese gay men perceive it as a “sexual truth.” Based on ethnographic research from 2017 to 2021, I argue that this popular discourse is produced by the higher threshold to qualify as a 1 than a 0. The unequal threshold prevents many men from self-identifying, and, more importantly, being recognized as a 1. In addition, the wide circulation of this discourse has intensified effeminophobia, and led to unequal sexual opportunities for gay men based on their embodied masculinities.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-03-02T09:50:29Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221144623
Love, sex, and other dangers – intimate partner relationships of young
ethnic queers in Aotearoa New Zealand
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  Authors: Camille Nakhid, Lourdes Vano, Makanaka Tuwe, Zina Abu Ali
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Open and long-term intimate partner relationships are missing from the landscape of the queer ethnic community in Aotearoa New Zealand. For young ethnic queers, this lack of visibility denies them knowledge of how ethnic queers form and develop intimate partner relationships in a society that marginalizes their ethnicity, and communities that stigmatize their queerness. Similarly, very little is known about the perceptions and experiences of intimate queer relationships among ethnic young people. Using data from a qualitative study of 43 young ethnic queers living in Aotearoa New Zealand, this paper aims to provide information on what young ethnic queers experience or expect from intimate partner relationships, and how family, community, and their own beliefs impact these relationships. The study showed that intimate partner relationships among queer ethnic young people were as diverse as the people and cultures, and young ethnic queers did not necessarily have prescribed ways for how these relationships took place. Importantly, despite the pressures and expectations from their communities for heterosexual relationships, young ethnic queers sought the intimacy and affirmation of intimate partner relationships.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-02-28T05:19:14Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231159850
“Any cosmo girl would’ve known”: Collaboration, feminine knowledge,
and Femme theory in Legally Blonde
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  Authors: Andi Schwartz
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  In 2001, the film Legally Blonde was released into a pop cultural landscape saturated with the Spice Girls’ brand of feminism-lite and postfeminist media texts like Sex and the City (1998–2004). With its firm hold on “girlie” feminism, Legally Blonde is postfeminist — but not post-femme. I extend the claim that femme theory can be located in low-cultural spaces and texts to understand the “chick flick” as another possible site of femme theory. I argue that Legally Blonde demonstrates that femme resistance can be located in the success of femininity, rather than only in its failure.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-02-27T05:27:05Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231160060
Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered
survey study
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  Authors: Nicole Prause, James Binnie
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  “Reboot,” especially NoFap, promotes abstinence from masturbation and/or pornography to treat “pornography addiction,” an unrecognized diagnosis. While the intention of Reboot/NoFap is to decrease distress, qualitative studies have consistently suggested that “Reboots” paradoxically cause more distress. The distress appears to occur in response to (1) the abstinence goal, which recasts common sexual behaviors as personal “failures,” and (2) problematic and inaccurate Reboot/NoFap forum messaging regarding sexuality and addiction. This preregistered survey asked men about their experience with perceived “relapse” and NoFap forums. Participants reported that their most recent relapse was followed by feeling shameful, worthless, sad, a desire to commit suicide, and other negative emotions. A novel predictor of identifying as a pornography addict in this lower religiosity sample was higher narcissism. Participants reported that NoFap forums contained posts that were misogynist (73.7% of participants), bullying (49.1%), anti-LGBT (42.9%), antisemitic (32.0%), instructing followers to harm or kill themselves (23.5%), or threats to hurt someone else (21.1%). More engagement in NoFap online forums was associated with worse symptoms of erectile dysfunction, depression, anxiety, and more sex negativity. Results support and expand previously documented harms and problems with Reboot/NoFap claims of treating pornography addiction from qualitative research.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-02-23T01:36:07Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231157070
Gender, sexuality and race: An intersectional analysis of racial
consumption and exclusion in Birmingham’s gay village
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  Authors: Melindy Duffus, Ben Colliver
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Queer spaces have gained increasing attention academically with a range of studies exploring the construction of such spaces. This article addresses the spatial and social practices and processes that occur within these spaces that perpetuate exclusion based on race. Drawing on ethnographic data collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observations conducted in Birmingham’s ‘gay village’, we argue that gendered perceptions of racialised masculinities and femininities create unique experiences for men and women from minoritised ethnicities. We argue that queer spaces, which are often assumed to transgress and challenge social norms actually maintain, uphold and perpetuate white, patriarchal norms and can therefore be considered a microcosm of broader society. In doing so, we advance criminological thought by adopting a zemiological framework that centres social harm rather than relying on legally defined incidents of crime.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-02-18T12:02:37Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231157068
Algorithmic heteronormativity: Powers and pleasures of dating and hook-up
apps
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  Authors: Diana C. Parry, Eric Filice, Corey W. Johnson
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  We propose the concept of algorithmic heteronormativity to describe the ways in which dating apps’ digital architectures are informed by and perpetuate normative sexual ideologies. Situating our intervention within digital affordance theories and grounding our analysis in walkthroughs of several popular dating apps’ (e.g., Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge) interfaces, promotional materials, and ancillary media, we identify four normative sexual ideologies—gendered desire, hetero and homonormativity, mononormativity, and shame—that manifest in specific features, including gender choice, compatibility surveys, and private chat. This work builds on earlier digital culture theorizing by explicitly articulating the reciprocal and gradational linkages between existing moral codes, digital infrastructures, and individual behaviors, which in the contemporary context work jointly to narrow the horizon of intimate possibility.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-02-18T08:50:21Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221144626
Controlling the narrative, examining the self: The unruly femme
subjectivity of Fleabag
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  Authors: Aviva Dove-Viebahn
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article challenges conventions of normative femininity and popular feminism by examining the television show Fleabag (2016–2019) and the destabilizing tendencies of its unnamed protagonist (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), who insistently breaks the fourth wall, implying a form of narrative agency. However, her refusal and/or inability to conform to expectations around public decency, feminine norms, and heterosexual romance also betray a lack of narrative control. The show’s unruly framing and its dysfunctional narrator open a dynamic space for explorations of “bad feminism” (Gay, 2014), “fem (me)inine failure” (Hoskin and Taylor, 2019), and “toxic femininity” (McCann, 2020), while foregrounding a kind of femme resistance.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-02-15T09:13:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231157072
Bye bye romance, welcome reputation: An analysis of the digital enclosure
of dating
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  Authors: Carolina Bandinelli, Alberto Cossu
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  In contemporary ‘platformised’ societies, digital businesses play a key role in producing and reproducing romantic cultures. In this article, we explore how the digital industry of dating has translated existing romantic cultures into datafied algorithmic infrastructures. We do so by looking at the interplay between the interconnected dimensions of a) existing mainstream cultures of love and sex, b) their datafication and codification into dating apps, and c) how the latter produce a new understanding of dating that is functional to create digital enclosures. Drawing on existing scholarly research as well as original qualitative data, we argue that dating apps reproduce dating as a de-romanticised social practice which is part of a digital lifestyle organised around a reputational logic.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-02-15T08:04:30Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231152427
Hijra, trans, and the grids of “passing”
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  Authors: Salman Hussain
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This paper examines the contestation about khwajasara corporeality—legal, medical and activist claims about the khwajasara body—and how it has been subjected to state projects of welfare and citizenship in South Asia. The khwajasara/hijra body was a suspicious and a transgressive body for the colonial state, but it has become a target of legal and medical forms of knowledge with the transformation of the “transgender” as a new subject of citizenship in South Asia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the khwajasara community in Pakistan, this paper examines how new “grid[s] of intelligibility” (Butler, 2001: 629) informed by legal and medical forms of expertise mediate rights claims as well as fuel social imaginary about khwajasaras—making the body of khwajasara legible as a Gender X citizen while also providing a new political context to which khwajasaras diversely respond. My analysis suggests that the new “citational apparatus” (Mitra, 2020: 111) concerning khwajasara corporeality makes khwajasaras “deserving” subjects of state welfare and protection, but only through introducing new forms of welfare surveillance, mediated by legal and medical experts. The paper suggests that as an object of state intervention as well as a means to elude legibility and demand equality and rights, the body remains central to governmental projects of welfare, governance and citizenship.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-02-14T08:44:18Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231157071
“It’s hard to know what we should be doing”: LGBTQ+ students’
library privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic
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  Authors: Michele A. L. Villagran, Darra Hofman
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Given both the historical and ongoing surveillance and policing of marginalized communities, contact tracing, and other pandemic control measures pose additional dangers to marginalized communities that are not faced by members of dominant communities. While privacy rights have been a point of controversy and uncertainty for all in the face of digital surveillance and the exigencies of the pandemic, LGBTQ+ students may well struggle to assert even those rights to which they are unquestionably entitled. Utilizing a multi-method, multidisciplinary approach, this research examined the information and privacy risks imposed upon or heightened for LGBTQ+ university students by COVID-19, with a focus on the roles of libraries and librarians. This study revealed while the library community has a desire to support its LGBTQ+ patrons, there are less consistently available knowledge and resources, particularly with regards to COVID-19 specific concerns, such as contact tracing.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-02-07T06:57:08Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231152428
Bold resistance: Developing tenets of femme analysis for an era of popular
feminism
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  Authors: Sarah Kornfield, Chloe Long
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Feminist analyses of postfeminism too often abject femininity, rendering spectacular femininity as a masquerade that endears women to heterosexual men. Moving into the era of popular feminism, feminist analyses have yet to renegotiate this abjection of femininity, often eclipsing the potential for resistance in favor of highlighting the pernicious effects of capitalism. Analyzing vignettes from The Bold Type (2017–2021), this research draws on femme theory to map an analytical framework that reinterprets spectacular femininity, developing strategies for critical analyses that can recognize fem(me)inine resistance within a landscape that commodifies femininity and feminism.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-01-27T05:08:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231152597
Changeable sexualities and fluid masculinities: The intersections of
sexual fluidity with hegemonic masculinity
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  Authors: Rita Grave, Ana R Pinho, António M Marques, Conceição Nogueira
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores the concept of sexual fluidity and its applicability to men’s sexual experiences by approaching the surveillance and control of hegemonic masculinity. We carried out semi-structured interviews with 15 participants aged between 20 and 53 who state having experienced sexual fluidity. The analysis conveys how sexuality is a work in progress while highlighting the intersections of masculinities and sexualities in a heteronormative, mononormative, sexually rigid, and hegemonically masculine social context. The results indicate the potential flexibility, malleability, and changeability of all sexual identities, orientations, and experiences when disengaging from a heteronormative approach in sexual relations.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-01-24T07:16:21Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231152426
Performing smart sexual selves: A sexual scripting analysis of youth talk
about internet pornography
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  Authors: Siobhan Healy-Cullen, Tracy Morison, Joanne E Taylor, Kris Taylor
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  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 scripting theory, as developed by feminist discursive psychologists, our analysis of interview data generated with 10 youth (aged 16–18 years) highlights two commonly constructed sexual identities across youth talk; (i) the proficient Internet pornography user, and (ii) the astute Internet pornography viewer. The way these young people talk about portrayals of sexuality and gender in IP – and their ability to discern its artifice – suggests they are savvy consumers who are capable of using IP as a cultural resource (e.g. for learning, entertainment) while at the same time acknowledging it as a flawed representation of sex and sexuality. We discuss the implications of our findings for strengths-based sexuality education that supports sexual agency, proposing a justice-orientated approach grounded in the notion of ethical sexual citizenship.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-01-23T06:31:03Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231152596
“Strength and courage in a wonderbra”: Femininity, drag, and
the spice girls
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  Authors: Maayan Padan
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The Spice Girls were a unique pop phenomenon, promoting feminist ideology while being dismissed as proponents of postfeminism and positioned as collaborators with the patriarchy. Drawing on music videos the band released during 1997, this article suggests that the band’s queer choices, regarding the spice personas the band adopted, were overlooked. This article explores the spice personas presentation of femme embodiments using drag: subverting notions of femininity as natural and monolithic, and resisting femininity as ubiquitously disempowering. By highlighting the heterosexual bias and anti-sex undertones in postfeminism, this analysis generates a multifaceted reading of popular femme performances as female-to-femme drag.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-01-21T09:28:08Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231152600
“I wish people knew that there are other flavors” Reflections on the
representation of poly-kink in mainstream media by polyamorous kinksters
in the Netherlands
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  Authors: Suzanne van der Beek, Laura Thomas
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Although studies have remarked upon the increase in representation of kinksters and BDSM practices in mainstream media narratives, community voices indicate that these narratives do not provide an authentic portrayal of their community. This misrepresentation of kinksters results in stigmatization and forces the community to manage its minority stress. This article reflects upon the results from a series of interviews with Dutch poly-kink-identified participants about mainstream representations of their community. The participants agree on several main objections to this representation: mainstream media narratives ignore community norms, while they actively sensationalize and pathologize kink, and insist on stereotypical gender relations. Together, this representation undermines the transgressive potential of poly-kink relations and increases the stigmatization of this community.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-01-18T11:25:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231152601
Stretched kinship: Queer female university students negotiating family and
identity
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  Authors: Annaliese Boyd, John Wei
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer + people, family and peer support are often important in their identity development during early adulthood. Young queer adults who have moved out of the family to pursue university education often seek out a sense of community and a feeling of kinship with other LGBTQ+ individuals as they journey through their identity transition. Based on semi-structured interviews with eight self-identified queer female students in a public university in New Zealand, this study examines their experience of ‘stretched kinship’ – moving out from the family (‘leaving home’), building peer connections in shared student accommodations (‘making home’) and developing more independent identities (‘coming out’) in relation to their original and alternative families. This paper helps us make sense of young queer people’s experiences transitioning from the family to university towards independence and adulthood.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-01-16T01:39:27Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607231152598
How homophobic propaganda produces vernacular prejudice in authoritarian
states
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  Authors: Jeremy Morris
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  An understanding of gendered homophobia in authoritarian states like Russia provides insights into intolerance as a function of propaganda. What is the effect on ordinary attitudes of “political homophobia” (Boellstorf, 2009) disseminated at fever pitch by state-controlled media intent on dividing the world geopolitically into debauched gay-friendly states, and those willing to defend “traditional Christian” values' Despite authoritarian societies appearing very different from pluralist ones, attitudes are plastic, diverse views possible, and survey polling unreliable. The ethnographic materials presented here show the need to meaningfully engage with vernacular prejudice and differentiate it from regime and media messaging. Everyday forms of homophobia and heterosexism have their origins in complex social phenomena and historical legacies beyond geopolitically-motivated hatred.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-01-09T10:54:55Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221144624
“Digital kink obscurity: A sexual politics beyond visibility and
comprehension”
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  Authors: Jenny Sundén
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Based on an interview-driven ethnographic study of the Swedish digital BDSM, fetish and kink platform Darkside, this article explores digital kink expressions at a moment when kink communities are both marginalized and seemingly mainstream, navigating a tricky balance between visibility and invisibility, intelligibility and unintelligibility. Across queer, postcolonial, and digital media theorizing, “opacity” provides a way of rethinking these tensions, challenging the idea of public visibility and identification as that which legitimizes sexual otherness. Building on this work, I suggest the term “kink obscurity” as a way of conceptualizing a set of tactics for sexually marginalized groups to exist, resist, and transgress without becoming fully visible or graspable. To these ends, I foreground a “closet positive” analysis of Darkside, not primarily of shame, secrecy, and isolation, but of shared spaces of vulnerability and intensity, a temporary safe house which partly protects against normative regulation. Although the platform activist ethos speaks to the value of openness and outness for the sake of sexual justice, the users are quite invested in anonymous and pseudonymous online presence and sexual expression. Opacity implies a lack of clarity; something opaque may be both difficult to see clearly as well as to understand. Drawing on Édouard Glissant’s idea of opacity as a form resistance to surveillance and imperial domination, a digital sexual politics of obscurity could help provide recognition without a demand to fully understand sexual otherness, opening up for new modes of obscure and pleasurable sexual expressions and transgressions.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2023-01-09T10:24:16Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221124401
ERRATUM to “Quantifying sex. Sex tracking apps and users’
practices”
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  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-12-29T09:51:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221147236
Do you have to have sex to have sex' Defining sex in British law and
medicine from the 1950s
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  Authors: David A Griffiths, Katherine A Hubbard
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Sex has at least two different but related meanings: a biological property that bodies can seemingly ‘have’, and a set of bodily practices that one or more people can ‘have’. In the 1950s, the endocrinologist CN Armstrong stated that biomedical evidence of sex variance and the lack of a clear legal definition of sex highlighted a problem with the criminalisation of homosexual activity. It was not until the 1970s that a clear category of legal sex was enacted in law. In this paper, we consider the Wolfenden Committee (1954–57) and the legal cases of Georgina Somerset and April Ashley (1969–70). As we demonstrate, despite the complexity revealed by biomedicine, the law has not struggled to enact binary categories, due to the normative force of binary and heteronormative social understandings of sex (in all its meanings). We conclude by reflecting upon the many queer ways that people have and do sex outside of the purview of legal or medical definitions.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-12-26T05:14:40Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221146504
Grindr' it’s a “Blackmailer’s goldmine”! The weaponization of
queer data publics Amid the US–China trade conflict
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  Authors: David Myles
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  In March 2019, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) identified Grindr, a hookup app that predominantly caters to men who have sex with men, as a “national security threat” and compelled the Chinese conglomerate Kunlun Tech to divest from it entirely. The CFIUS-Grindr ruling is indicative of larger regulatory debates over increasing datafication trends in the dating app industry. Through a political economy approach to communication, this paper examines how this ruling was predominantly constructed by various stakeholders as a public controversy in light of the ongoing US–China trade conflict. This interpretation of the controversy relies on a prejudicial trope that construes queer dating app users as vulnerable targets of potential blackmail schemes operated by Chinese intelligence agencies. Through the Lavender Scare, a historical period referring to state-led investigations into the presence of LGBTQ+ employees in Western federal workforces, this paper historicizes this blackmail trope to highlight how the politicization of queer vulnerabilities amid global hegemonic conflicts is a tactic that predates the US-China trade conflict. It argues that the CFIUS-Grindr ruling weaponizes Grindr’s queer data publics as threats against which the US government should protect itself, while failing to fully recognize the urgency for the state to protect the data privacy rights of the LGBTQ+ communities in the digital economy. In light of the CFIUS-Grindr ruling, this paper examines the implications that datafication raises for the LGBTQ+ communities whose sexual lives and identities are increasingly being datafied and exploited by digital media platforms.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-12-26T03:18:47Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221148137
The big picture: Representation of LGBTQ characters and themes in picture
books available in the United States 1972-2018
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  Authors: Hubert Izienicki
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The number of LGBTQ picture books—literary works for children containing lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer characters and themes—has increased considerably since 2000. While different segments of this category of books have been examined, there has been a limited examination of the entire genre. Using 234 English-language LGBTQ picture books available in the United States between 1972 and 2018, I conducted a content analysis of the main themes and central characters as well as investigate how the main themes changed over time and the extent to which they reflected the larger historical contexts in which they were created. I find that very few LGBTQ characters are cast as main protagonists and some (i.e., bisexuals) are completely absent. Similarly, I find an increase in diversity of themes over the decades yet with most centering on marriage, parenting, and domesticity. Together, LGBTQ picture books convey a limited view of the LGBTQ lives.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-12-15T08:44:32Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221144627
Book review: Queering law and order: LGBTQ communities and the criminal
justice system by K.L. Nadal
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  Authors: Shauntey James
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-12-10T04:05:46Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221144617
Rape culture: sexual intimidation and partner rape among youth in sexually
diverse relationships
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  Authors: Emmanuel Mayeza
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  South African studies on rape culture have examined this issue in relation to heterosexuality. They demonstrate how toxic masculinity exercises sexual power by victimizing women and girls. However, little is known about manifestations of rape culture in contexts where both victims and perpetrators are same-sex attracted young people within intimate relationships. Thus, this article extends the scope of the scholarly discussions on rape culture by exploring how rape culture manifests itself in the social and intimate lives of sexually diverse South African youth. It will also reflect on some of the ways that could be explored to address rape culture.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-12-07T02:43:51Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221144618
Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the
emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children
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  Authors: Eveliina Puutio, Tuija Huuki, Suvi Pihkala
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores the vital roles of matter in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children. Based on a case study of a seven-year-old girl, it draws from ethnographic research on the gendered and sexual power relations of students in Northern Finland. Inspired by feminist, new materialist theories, the analysis indicates how everyday objects may be seen as co-constituting heterosexual femininity by attaching even young girls to teenage cultures and emphasizing femininity and distancing them from childhood and masculinity. This article shows, furthermore, how materiality acts in generating “cross-pulls” that may evoke popularity and admiration, but also cause restrictions to the agency of girls in the ambiguous entanglements of child sexual cultures.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-11-22T01:46:48Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221126937
Becoming aware of your gender and sexual identity: Narrative experiences,
intersecting identities, and healthcare implications
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  Authors: Julie L Nagoshi, Vijayan K Pillai, Craig T Nagoshi, Kris L Hohn, Louis M Lindley
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Eleven self-identified gay/lesbian individuals were interviewed about the age at which they became aware of their gender and sexual identity and whether they recalled specific life events associated with that awareness. Thematic analyses focused on individuals who recalled a specific age and event in early childhood in which they became aware of their gender and sexual identity versus individuals who did not recall a specific age tied to their awareness of their sexual and gender identities. Results showed that five participants gave non-specific ages (e.g., “always” and “at an early age”) when their gender identity became particularly salient, the remaining 6 participants reported a specific age and typically a specific event when their gender identity became particularly salient. Findings are discussed in the context of intersectionality, gender and sexual identity development, and the coming out process. Findings suggest that experiences related to gender identity and expression and sexual orientation are non-linear processes that vary widely, and that there is no one “master narrative”. Implications for mental health and the need for ongoing support services are also highlighted.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-11-14T02:13:40Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221137316
Stepping off the ‘relationship escalator’. A spatial perspective on
residential arrangements of consensually non-monogamous parents
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  Authors: Pierre-Yves Wauthier
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The residential landscape of western societies in the 20th century was based on a nuclear and monogamous normative representation of the family. This representation contrasts with the representation of the family that some consensually non-monogamous (CNM) parents carry. How did CNM informants combine residence, parenting and multiple relationships within the hetero-mono-normative organizational legacy of society' An extensive set of exploratory and ethnographic data was gathered in francophone countries in Western Europe during 2013–2018. Informants’ dwelling configurations were interpreted as the result of their personal life paths interwoven with a web of macrostructural tensions. A comparative approach on residences, combined with life stories gathered within a strategic group of informants, contributed to understanding the various processes leading to specific forms of CNM dwellings with children. The comparison highlights five categories of CNM residential patterns, all resulting from attempts to compromise with the hetero-mono-normative dwelling tradition. The developments of transportation and communication technologies appeared as an important factor in the spatial and temporal organizations of family functions within the CNM configurations observed. These CNM family arrangements also appeared as ephemeral and versatile. These conclusions lead to new avenues of research regarding the social forces contributing to their fragility despite the intent of the actors.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-11-08T05:47:28Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221080515
“Oops, I didn’t know we couldn’t talk about sex”: Sex researchers
talking back to the erotophobic academy using the researcher’s erotic
subjectivities
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  Authors: Valerie De Craene
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  A proliferation of research outputs in recent years that takes into account the erotic subjectivities of the researcher seems to suggest that both research on sexuality and the inclusion of the desiring researcher’s body in academic writings have become accepted as valuable and relevant academic research topics and methods. Yet, the often animated and at times uncomfortable discussions these academic interventions generate—also beyond academic settings—attest to the enduring sensitivity that comes with (discussing) the researcher’s sex and sexuality. This special section aims to provide a space to explore the methodological, ethical, and epistemological implications of (i) the researcher’s immersion in or withdrawal from sexual/ized interactions, and (ii) reflexively reporting about the researcher’s erotic subjectivities in scholarly outputs such as journal articles or conference presentations. In doing so, it not only critiques current academic structures and a masculinist politics of science that are at best not equipped to take into account the complexities of (auto-)ethnographic sex research. It also turns a critical eye towards the blind spots we might have as sex researchers towards the differential power relations with different actors involved in (auto-) ethnographic research that explicitly deals with the researcher’s erotic subjectivities. Reducing those blind spots will make us less vulnerable to gratuitous comments by the erotophobic academy as well as the increasing conservative societal forces who are all too eager to delegitimize our academic writings, while exploring the complexities of (auto-) ethnographic sex research aims to increase the rigour of our work. By talking back, we aim to advance conversations on the methodological, ethical and epistemological implications of taking seriously the researcher’s erotic subjectivities in our research endeavours.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-11-07T05:57:38Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221137315
Quantifying sex. Sex tracking apps and users’ practices
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  Authors: Cosimo Marco Scarcelli
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Through a qualitative research that involved 11 men and 10 women between the ages of 21 and 25, the paper aims to open a discussion that begins with sex tracking app users’ experiences and interlaces them with broader analyses of such applications of quantified self. The paper focuses on the use of a sex tracking app for measuring and monitoring one’s sexual behaviour and health; the relationships between interviewees and their partners and the tendency of some participants to use apps as a catalogue for recording partners; and the use of these apps to improve one’s sexual performance.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-11-01T08:20:49Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221137323
How perceptions of masculinity and intimate sexual relationships shape
men’s experiences of paying for sex: A qualitative exploration
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  Authors: Rachel Tal-Hadar, Ayelet Prior, Einat Peled
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This qualitative study explores how perceptions of masculinity, sexual intimate relationships and sex-for-pay (SFP) shape the experiences of men who pay women for sex (MPWS). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 Israeli MPWS. Participants were recruited through an STD community clinic, an anonymous online survey, ads posted in online forums for MPWS, and an organization for the abolition of prostitution. The findings offer a complex understanding of the experiences of MPWS, based on the intersections between their views of sexuality within long-term intimate relationships, and their perceptions of the acceptability of SFP within dominant discourses of masculinity. The findings comprise four experiential patterns of the multi-layered practice of paying for sex: Agonizing, Ambivalent, Intermittent and Simultaneous.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-10-31T08:57:07Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221137314
Book Review: Studying Gender in Medieval Europe, Patricia Skinner
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  Authors: Rebekah Stillwell
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-10-28T09:57:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221137318
A (queer) CEO society' Lesbians Who Tech and the politics of
extra-ordinary homonormativity
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  Authors: Olimpia Burchiellaro
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The article explores the queer politics of homo/anti-normativity of Lesbians Who Tech, a corporate network for lesbian and queer women. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that critiques of ‘gay ordinariness’ are unable to capture extant ‘extra-ordinary’ trajectories of queer capitalist incorporation. I trace the ways in which corporate culture, leadership and values are currently reshaping queer life and politics in terms of a ‘CEO society’ to demonstrate that we should avoid assuming that anti-normativity is always on the side of the progressive and instead consider how this is taken up by the very institutions it is intended to contest.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-10-27T03:08:22Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221097333
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised
acceptance in the BDSM subculture
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  Authors: Emma L Turley
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Despite increased media exposure, bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) is a stigmatised subculture and this stigmatisation can have serious social and legal implications for practitioners even when the participation is consensual. Psycho-medical narratives have constructed practitioners of BDSM as perverse and pathological, and in opposition to heteronormative sexual expression. To reduce stigma, it appears that a process of normalisation is occurring with the aim of increasing broader acceptance and therefore reducing the transgressive nature of BDSM. This, however, is not unproblematic and may privilege certain types of BDSM while further marginalising others. Nine practitioners of consensual BDSM participated in in-depth, face to face interviews in the UK. Interviews were conducted within an interpretive phenomenological framework that focused on the lived experience of participating in consensual BDSM. The findings presented in this article relate specifically to lived experiences of transgression as a key element of BDSM and will be discussed with reference to the ways transgression can challenge narratives of acceptance via normalisation.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-10-13T05:22:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221132727
From TERF to gender critical: A telling genealogy'
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  Authors: Claire Thurlow
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  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 radical feminism/feminist) is now more often referred to as gender critical feminism/feminist. In this article I argue that this new moniker represents more than a renaming. Instead, it can be interpreted as a rebranding for a present-day where the explicit transphobia of earlier trans-exclusionary feminism is no longer tolerated. I will map two telling changes that I argue currently separates gender critical from TERF, this involves (i) the linguistic pivot from ‘anti-trans’ to ‘pro-woman’ and, (ii) the nascent questioning of the traditional theoretical underpinning of trans-exclusionary feminism. Through this mapping I will explain the rebranding as an attempted claim to legitimacy with an aim of accruing mainstream support. However, exploration of the two changes will show that, despite efforts to obscure the point, gender critical feminism continues to rely on transphobic tropes, moral panics and essentialist understandings of men and women. These factors also continue to link trans-exclusionary feminism to anti-feminist reactionary politics and other ‘anti-gender’ movements.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-09-30T07:16:21Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221107827
Erotic capabilities: A feminist analysis of sexual justice and pleasure in
heterosexual sex partying
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  Authors: Pamela P Tsui
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  In gender and sexuality studies, heterosexual sex has often been portrayed in terms of inequality and injustice; however, there has been scant discussion of what social conditions may cultivate a democratic and egalitarian culture that sustains sexual autonomy. Developed from Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, I propose the erotic capabilities approach to assess and promote entitlement to erotic choices and erotic freedoms in everyday practice. I argue that erotic capabilities should consist of the following: (1) freedom from sexual coercion and deprivation; (2) democratized sexual knowledge; (3) sexual health options; (4) inclusive space for diversified erotic expressions; (5) erotic affiliation and negotiation; and (6) diversified erotic aspirations, fulfilments and experimentations. Drawing on a 29-month ethnography of a sex party club in Hong Kong, I demonstrate how the erotic capabilities approach can be used in a meso-level analysis to evaluate a sexual space or community which, while situated in the overarching patriarchal ideology, may or may not offer a reflexive space for its participants to define their erotic selves. As this study formulates sexuality as a vehicle of empowerment that can and should be cultivated and actualized, it illuminates the possibility to imagine and create agentic and pleasurable opportunities for people in different social locations under the patriarchy we still live in.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-09-28T07:19:20Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607211060507
Aging out: Place and sexuality
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  Authors: Liesl L Gambold
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This paper explores LGBT retirees as agents of change who are renegotiating the terms of healthy aging in place and expanding our understanding of lifestyle and retirement migration. For the first time in history, a generation of self-identified lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender individuals have entered retirement. However, their subjective experiences have largely been glossed over in popular discourses of successful aging and migration in heteronormative society. This article explores why and how older LGBT people are choosing housing options to age “out of place” in order to support their sexual lives and identities. Examining the everyday experiences of these seniors—members of a double minority, both aged and LGBT—allows us to disrupt the idea of what healthy “aging in place” means and when it might actually be unhealthy. Employing standpoint theory pushes the analysis of marginalized voices to the fore and allows us to ask about these seniors’ subjective realities. What results is a reimagining of the aging landscape. Interview data from LGBT seniors who have migrated to LGBT naturally occurring retirement communities or LGBT-focused housing complexes in France, Sweden, and Germany are used to stretch our notions of wellbeing and aging in place for these diverse retirees. One finding is that for these LGBT seniors, disrupting social norms by aging out of place is not escapist or amenity-seeking, but is key to honoring their sexuality and aging process in a safe and supportive environment.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-09-28T03:19:51Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607211060833
“The ultimate test of self-discipline”: Lockdown and the NoFap
community
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  Authors: David S. Smith, Alice Butler-Warke, Emma-Lee Davidson, Gemma Stevens
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  NoFap is a community of mostly heterosexual men abstaining from what they see as an addictive cycle of pornography, masturbation, and orgasm, induced by the exploitation of innate male urges by the pornography industry. In the general population, increased masturbation and consumption of pornography are associated with psychological factors including low affect, loneliness, and boredom, all of which may be exacerbated by the lockdown/social distancing measures adopted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The present study explores how the NoFap community has responded to the pandemic through discourse analysis of an online message board. We identify four key themes: i) I let go in lockdown, ii) the opportunity of lockdown, iii) testing the parameters of NoFap, and iv) community cohesion. Each is defined and discussed. Combined they illustrate a digital community struggling to honor its meritocratic masculine ideals in the face of challenging circumstances.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-09-27T09:55:13Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221091493
Book Review
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  Authors: Carina Perrone
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-09-20T07:19:36Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221122375
Stories of homoeroticism amongst male ex-combatants of illegal armed
groups: Unexplored areas of the armed conflict in Colombia
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  Authors: Sebastian Giraldo Aguirre, Gabriel G Montes
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The aim of this paper is to present the male homoerotic experiences of ex-combatants from the FARC-EP and ELN guerrillas, as well as paramilitary groups, during their period in these armed groups. For this article, we have used multiple methodological strategies. For the first two stories, we made semi-structured qualitative interviews with ex-combatants. Then, we wrote the narratives collaboratively. For the third story, the anecdote was constructed based on the testimonies of the residents of a municipality of Caldas affected by the armed conflict. The participation of combatants in homoerotic practices and their involvement in romantic relationships with men showed that interpretations and meanings of homosexuality (and heterosexuality) in war contexts can be questioned, since their involvement is related to victimization. In addition, the narratives demonstrated that the meaning of these concepts was fragmented in various directions such as desire, feelings, anxieties, and complicity with the armed logic.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-09-07T01:36:58Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221124404
The courage to ‘get naked’: Stigma, disclosure and lived
experience in sex work research
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  Authors: Lynzi Armstrong
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Stigma is widely acknowledged as an issue that causes significant harm to sex workers, forcing people to conceal their experiences. It has also been acknowledged that the stigma relating to sex work can impact researchers, who may experience stigma by association. However, researchers can also have personal experience of sex work themselves, which means they are impacted directly by stigma on several levels and must negotiate difficult decisions relating to disclosure and risk. In this paper, I recount the power that stigma has had over me, discussing the emotional challenges that this has created for me as a researcher and in my everyday life. Furthermore, I reflect on the complications of my positionality and argue that while lived experience is incredibly valuable, as researchers it is also important to be aware of the limitations of our own experiences.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-09-05T03:09:35Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221122315
Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo
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  Authors: Lonneke van den Berg
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-08-27T03:00:13Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221124398
Book Review: Sex panic rhetorics, Queer Interventions
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  Authors: Timothy Oleksiak
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-08-11T07:04:09Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221119430
“I don’t need advice but I will take it”: Allied labor
in transgender allyship
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  Authors: Ruth Blatt
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Allies play an important role in virtually every fight to end oppression, yet are often criticized by those they are allied with for reinforcing binaries and recreating colonial models of saviorism that maintain their relative social power. I refer to the potential of allies to both help and harm those they are allied with as the “ally paradox.” I analyze the clip “Janet Mock Rejoins Piers Morgan” from February 2014 to identify the issues at the heart of the ally paradox: who knows what is best for the cause (epistemic authority), who deserves allyship (deservingness), what constitutes “good” allyship (intention versus outcome), and how allyship should feel (affect). Paying attention to the affective and emotional components of their interaction, I ask how Mock manages the complexity of the ally-allied relationship that stems from unequal power relations. I coin the term “allied labor” to describe the work of mobilizing allies as a resource while at the same time disrupting power structures. Allied labor is the work of both cultivating and resisting allies. Mock draws on politeness and respectability as resources to educate Morgan and the public about transgender issues and expose his allyship as fragile. In this way, she is both complicit and subversive, leveraging the potential of allyship for social change while engaging in respectability politics.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-07-15T05:25:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221114467
Introduction: Parenting, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. Critical
and queer perspectives
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  Authors: Christian Klesse, Daniel Cardoso, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Michael Raab, Cornelia Schadler, Mimi Schippers
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This special issue explores key issues regarding the parenting practices within polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous intimate relationships. The contributions are concerned with the stigmatization of child-care practices that deviate from the default of couple-based monogamy, exceed biological definitions of kinship and experiment with new forms of spatial organization beyond shared residence. In this introduction, we highlight key themes of previous research, highlight normative pressures and counter-normative contestations around the themes of exclusivity, gendered parenting roles, relational development framed as intimate growth and a pervasive reproductive futurism. Polyamorous parenting practices negotiate a complex social terrain shaped by social and health policies, law, housing development, creating new avenues for parenting roles, and the (re)organization of care work and the division of labour in child-rearing.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-07-14T11:45:19Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221114466
Affect and queer intimate entanglements in national-neoliberal Estonia
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  Authors: Raili Marling, Rebeka Põldsam
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines the affective entanglements and queer/ed intimacies in post-Soviet Estonia by analyzing ethnographic fieldwork. To build an intersectionally engaged analysis, the article employs Karen Barad’s agential realist model of intra-actions to show how intimate relationships are tied to socio-economic status and cultural setting. In Estonia, intimacy is framed by a homophobic discourse that erases anything but heteronormativity. This public erasure produces, on the one hand, moral panics and, on the other hand, affectively complex intimate entanglements among queer/ed subjects. The empirical analysis discusses conversations with five straight and queer women that contain rich affective narratives. It investigates how a person’s economic situation relates to their intimate relationship choice in a social sphere that is dominated by nationalist discourse and neoliberal rationality. This has created contradictory affective responses that are unpacked and contextualized in the article.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-07-09T11:52:27Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221112646
How COVID-19 is (and is not) changing the way we talk about sex and
dating: A critical analysis of sex advice during the pandemic
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  Authors: Sophie Hindes, Kristi Urry
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  In this article, we applied a ‘sex critical’ lens to discursively analyse online sex advice available to Australian readers in the first 3 months of ‘lockdown’ during the COVID-19 pandemic (March–June 2020). We explored how sex and intimacy were being talked about within the pandemic context, examining if and how this was different to pre-pandemic sex advice. We found both the perpetuation of dominant discourses that limit understandings of sex and sexual practices, and challenges to these which open exciting possibilities for new sexual intimacies.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-07-04T05:42:23Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221112648
Exploring transnational LGBT+ solidarities across the Norwegian-Russian
border: The case of Barents Pride
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  Authors: Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This paper explores the case of Barents Pride, an event organized collaboratively by Russian and Norwegian LGBT+ activists located close to the Norwegian–Russian border. The idea of the Pride is to bring LGBT+ people and activists from Russia, where state pressure limits possibilities of organizing prides, to Norway and to express solidarity across borders. We use this case to investigate pitfalls and promises of queer transnational solidarities, to contest notions of center/periphery, the North/South–East/West division and to analyze how sexuality simultaneously enforces and destabilizes these dichotomies.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-06-21T05:44:30Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221107815
Design as sexual practice: The visual culture of social apps and HIV risk
in Taiwan
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  Authors: Poyao Huang
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores the visual culture of social network applications (apps), using “safer-sex design” as an anchor to contemplate how different practices of looking at HIV co-constitute viral visibility. Drawing on science and technology studies and queer theories, this article traces viral visibility from its digital production through its marketization, and finally to its implications for gay men’s sexual communication in Taiwan. Through interviews with gay Taiwanese men and a social app developer and the visual analysis of Hornet, Grindr, and Scruff, this article describes how the precarity of viruses, knowledge of HIV prevention, and social stigmas against sexual minorities are brought together, staged, and made eligible (and ineligible) for public viewing. This article demonstrates how digital platform designs work to facilitate gay men’s sociosexual communication while ironically reinforcing stigmas against HIV/AIDS in Taiwan, and suggests a critical approach to the visual culture of social apps and queer health.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-06-17T10:53:36Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221107825
‘As straight as they come’: Expressions of masculinities
within digital sex markets
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  Authors: Helen M Rand
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The research presented in this paper supports claims by feminists and queer theorists that there are numerous and diverse sex/gender/desire categories (Bem, 1995). Taken from a broader digital ethnography of digital sex markets in the United Kingdom, the findings are based on ten in-depth interviews with those who identified as men or ‘gender flexible’ and who buy and/or sell sex within digital markets. The participants featured in this paper used digital sex markets as a space to explore and express non-normative/subversive sexual and gender identities. Yet for many of them, these subversive acts were bounded by the market, so they were able to uphold masculine heterosexual identities outside of sex markets. The relative privacy of digital sex markets empowered them to maintain heterosexist power, reducing the social risks of stigmatisation and ostracisation associated with subversive sexual and gender identities. The thematic analysis revealed the limitations of heteronormative and homonormative labels and assumptions of sex work relations, thus, prompting the need to write this paper. Framing sex markets in narrow binary terms, as either homosexual or heterosexual markets, or research participants as customers or workers do not reflect the fluidity and diversity evident in this small yet revealing sample. The study shows multiple and fluid expressions of sex/gender/desire; and a duality in market roles as workers and/or customers amongst men engaged in digital sex markets.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-06-13T08:09:31Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221085484
Plastic fantastic: Sex robots and/as sexual fantasy
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  Authors: Lara Karaian
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article provides an interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of sex robots and/as sexual fantasy. I demonstrate that sexual fantasy is a highly complex and salient vector of analysis for any discussion of love and sex with robots. First, I introduce contemporary North American sex robots and offer a brief sketch of their ontology as relates to sex toys and pornography. Next, I provide a short but instructive mapping of sexual fantasy scholarship from across the fields of experimental psychology, media and cultural studies, post-colonial, psychoanalytic, feminist, queer and critical race theory. My goal here is to demonstrate sexual fantasy’s polymorphous and productive nature and its complex relationship to reality. Drawing on the theories of sexual fantasy canvassed herein, I examine the role of fantasy to sex robots’ inception, marketing, and consumption. From here I offer an appraisal of radical feminist, new materialist, and disabled queer and trans feminists’ critiques of sex robots and their users. I argue that theorizing sex robots through the lens(es) of sexual fantasy is necessary given efforts to stigmatize, regulate, and criminalize sexual fantasy and sextech users in the post/digital age. Future scholarship is encouraged to further examine the sex robot/sexual fantasy nexus and to consider whether and how their intersections impede or facilitate the development of alternative “networks of affection” including those that lie between the platonic and romantic or between “carbonsexuality” and technosexuality/digisexuality.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-06-13T01:20:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221106667
“You enjoy being a second class citizen”: Unicorn dynamics and
identity negotiation on subreddit r/polyamory
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  Authors: Sally W Johnston
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Recent attention to the non-monogamous identity known as the “unicorn” has increased the visibility of a poorly understood sexual minority. Conflicting definitions in popular media, heightened social stigma, and reports of inequitable, and even abusive, relationship dynamics justify attention to unicorns. With very few academic studies to date on unicorn identity, an exploratory study was conducted to address a gap in sexuality research. Discourse analysis of an online polyamorous community offered a definition of unicorns and revealed that those interested in unicorn dynamics are treated as an “out-group” in polyamorous spaces. Further, evidence of community gatekeeping revealed that unicorns threaten polyamorous identity security and trigger identity negotiations that may be impeding queer feminist efforts to undo relational and sexual hierarchies.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-06-12T08:48:27Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221107821
‘Our story with the state’: Birth certificates, data structures and
gay and lesbian families
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  Authors: Páraic Kerrigan, Amber Cushing
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Birth certificate data has been identified for its centrality in providing complete and accurate information on demographics, particularly as it relates to families. Often, however, these forms of data collection, are very much hetero-centric, re-embedding normative conceptualizations of identity, particularly as it relates to sex, gender and sexuality. Modes of demographic data collection, such as that of the birth certificate, do not allow for the fluidity and multiplicity of gender and sexual identities that characterize the lived experience of many LGBTQ families. This article will explore the significance of the birth certificate for LGBTQ Irish families, particularly in light of the varying inequalities that emerge from the data gaps they create for both parent and child. In exploring these facets, this article draws upon qualitative semi-structured interviews with LGBTQ parents, exploring how they see the data gaps that emerge on birth certificates and the effects these gaps have on them as an LGBTQ family. Through exploring the ways in which the data gaps and omissions on the Irish birth certificate creates inequalities, this article uses the findings to build on the work of Ruberg and Ruellos (2020) who call for shifting how we see and understand queer identity through data. Through these findings, we argue that systems of data collection, data structures and certification must be changed to build data for queer parenthood and that it is necessary to recalibrate how we design birth certificates to more accurately represent LGBTQ-parent families.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-06-10T07:17:05Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221106913
Swedish poly utopia: Dreams, revolutions, and crushed hopes
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  Authors: Catrine Andersson, Charlotta Carlström
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Polyamory means having a sexual and/or intimate relationship with more than one person at a time. In this study, we use in-depth interviews with 22 persons in Sweden who have experience of polyamorous or non-monogamous relationships to explore how polyamory can include imagining utopian relationships and spaces. Thematic analysis was done which indicated narratives of politically invested attempts to create communal living or societal change that resists capitalist and heteronormative nuclear-family arrangements as well as stories of everyday events that do not explicitly involve political ambitions. The range of utopian dreams and practices of the non-monogamous participants in our study, we argue, are examples of what Muñoz calls concrete utopias, filled with joy and laden with disappointment in the face of potentiality and reality.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-06-09T08:34:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607211056887
Being recognized in an algorithmic system: Cruel optimism in gay
visibility on Douyin and Zhihu
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  Authors: Shuaishuai Wang, Oscar Tianyang Zhou
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Drawing upon “algorithmic ethnography” (Christin, 2020), this article enrolls algorithms to gather qualitative data to examine how Chinese social media platforms and their algorithms intersect with gay visibility. By looking critically into the ways that gay romance and HIV-related content are generated on Douyin and Zhihu, respectively, we argue that algorithmic gay visibility serves as a form of cruel optimism, which becomes a profitable convenience for corporate social media platforms and operates in an exclusionary matrix. The content that ordinary Chinese gay men are presented with (for example, the able-bodied, romanticized normative gay relationship and overly optimistic self-help advice for gay men living with HIV) is economically viable, which produces trending and monetizable items, including music tracks, viral dance routines and challenges, personas, medicine promotions, as well as commercial healthcare training and marketing. In contrast, non-conforming bodies, non-monogamous and queer relationships, as well as the depression, stigma and discrimination experienced by gay men living with HIV are algorithmically invisible.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-06-06T04:38:39Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221106912
Beyond the Timeline of Progress: Comparing Online Sources with Lived
LGBTQ+ Experiences in Guyana
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  Authors: Luca Istodor
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Current maps, reports, and articles available online on LGBTQ+ rights in Guyana, catering to white Western readers, perpetuate a colonial image of the country as a “violent,” “savage,” “uncivilized” space, placing it “behind” on a Western timeline of progress. When comparing these sources with the lived experiences of research participants, we find that, in addition to exclusion, there are many positive changes and aspects of their lives that are left out of most online sources. By looking at the particular case study of Guyana, this article calls for an approach to LGBTQ+ Global South representations that center the nuances and complexities of intersectional local voices and activism, going beyond liberal Western ideals around LGBTQ+ rights.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-06-04T03:59:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221106671
Normalizing intersex children through genital surgery: the medical
perspective and the experience reported by intersex adults
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  Authors: Magali Cuadra, Ricardo Baruch, Andrea Lamas, María E Morales, Armando Arredondo, Doris Ortega
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This paper explores the conceptions of specialized physicians regarding intersex child surgery, and contrasts them with the experiences of intersex adults. The gap between the views of health personnel—who affirm that they are “doing their best”—and those of intersex persons—who report the adverse consequences of surgery—highlights the need to stop unnecessary normalization surgeries in children. The findings of this study suggest that bridging the gap between the medical perspective and the experience of intersex people requires opening direct channels of communication among all those involved in the clinical process, incorporating intersex individuals into bioethics committees, encouraging contact with the parents of intersex children, implementing regulations that unambiguously delay or prohibit unnecessary interventions, promoting a debate on relevant ethical principles and human rights to protect the interests of all intersex people, and disseminating the contents of such a debate.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-06-01T05:48:42Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221101142
Is consent enough' What the research on normative heterosexuality and
sexual violence tells us
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  Authors: Nicole K Jeffrey
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  In this paper, I first critically review previous research on normative heterosexuality and its intersections with sexual violence to demonstrate that the common focus on consent in Western sexual justice politics, sexuality education, and sexual violence prevention is inadequate for defining and promoting ethical sex and preventing sexual violence. In particular, I demonstrate that a consent focus allows men to (a) hold women responsible for communicating (non)consent; (b) define the conditions of sexual interactions; (c) achieve consent through violence and coercion; (d) accept “yes” as unfettered consent; and (e) minimize and justify sexual violence. I then articulate an alternative view of ethical sex that moves beyond consent and centers care, empathy, co-determination, and ongoing communication and attention, and highlight the importance of social norms and gender transformative approaches to sexual violence prevention.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-05-21T07:33:08Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221096760
A lesbian, gay and bisexual migration tale: On the role of intimate
citizenship for transforming sexual subjectivities
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  Authors: Tanja Vuckovic Juros
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This study examines the role of migrations for sexual subjectivities, based on biographic narrative interviews with CEE LGB migrants married or raising children with a same-sex partner in Belgium and the Netherlands. Migrants’ experiences highlight the salience of the migration-as-liberation with the empowering role of new beginnings in LGB-protective countries. At the same time, migrants’ stories also challenge this liberation tale, especially when situated within transnational family relations. In this context, migration and post-migration junctures differently impact sexual subjectivities, demonstrating fragmentations and non-linearity, and highlighting how migrations are only potentially transformative, with an important role played by full access to intimate citizenship.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-05-20T09:36:06Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221103207
“It’s easier to think outside the box when you are already outside the
box”: A study of transgender and non-binary people’s sexual well-being
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  Authors: Frida Björklund, Malin Lindroth
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  With a phenomenological approach, we explored transgender and non-binary people’s strategies to experience sexual well-being. Ten self-reports (seven interviews and three written texts) were analyzed, and the analysis resulted in six themes. The first three (Affirming oneself, Having access to care, and Being respected as one’s gender) were strategies for sexual well-being realized through affirming one’s identity, receiving the gender-confirming care wanted, and having one’s gender identity respected by others. The other three themes (Masturbating and fantasizing, Communicating and being open, and Being sexually free in queer spaces) were strategies for one aspect of sexual well-being—pleasure. The results describe strategies that all can learn from: the need to accept and appreciate oneself, not just adapt to gender norms of bodies and behaviors, and to communicate. In addition, it illuminates that being norm-breaking, or stepping out of the gendered paths presented to you, appears to provide new opportunities for people to learn what they enjoy, and this could lead to a broader repertoire of pleasurable sexual practices—practices that take bodily prerequisites into account.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-05-20T03:10:15Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221103214
Black people’s constructions of good sex: Describing good sex from
the margins
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  Authors: Candice N Hargons, Shemeka Thorpe, Natalie Malone, Courtney J Wright, Jardin N Dogan, Destin L Mizell, Jennifer L Stuck, Queen-Ayanna Sullivan, Anyoliny Sanchez, Carrie Bohmer, Michelle Stage, Kearstin Bruther, Kasey Vigil, Marla R Cineas, Tracie Q Gilbert
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Existing conceptualizations and measures of good sex are varied and inconclusive. Additionally, few studies have defined good sex from the margins, thus definitions are primarily informed from privileged perspectives. People with marginalized racial, gender, and sexual identities can offer culturally informed definitions of good sex that may expand current definitions. This study fills that gap by identifying factors that constitute good sex among Black people with diverse sexual and gender identities. Data were collected from 448 Black individuals who participated in an online Qualtrics survey with demographic, open-ended, and scaled questions. Results indicate a range of descriptors that align with existing sexual wellness literature and include the top 20 words to describe good sex as well as the top 10 words for demographics of interest. Differences in most frequent descriptors based on gender and sexual identities are reported. These results provide a foundation for sexual health practitioners, educators, and therapists to improve societal knowledge about what constitutes good sex among Black people.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-05-17T10:53:05Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221101854
The persistence and endurance of blood family
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  Authors: Shiva Chandra
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Families of choice is an important framework used to think about non-heterosexual people’s attachments. This means the family of origin has received limited attention when theorising their relationships. This group has often been considered in relation to coming out, which centralises the importance of sexuality for understanding kinship ties. This paper extends the limited, but growing scholarship on non-heterosexual people, and their families of origin. It does this by drawing on a larger project on the lives of gay men of South Asian descent, in Australia. Results demonstrate that attachment through blood, shared history, emotions, and obligations, firmly embed gay South Asian men in their families of origin, even when there is disapproval of their sexuality. More broadly, the study resists framing the respondents and findings in culturally essentialist terms, premised on an ‘East’ versus ‘West’ binary. It argues that by resisting such orientalism we can see similarities pertaining to families of origin across different contexts, and in doing so, produce queer scholarship able to speak across divides.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-05-12T10:55:30Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221092395
“It’s kind of like a fifty-fifty”: Participant ambivalence and the
queer(ed) potential of the focus group method
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  Authors: Alanna Goldstein
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This paper explores the queer(ed) possibilities of the focus group method through analyzing the ambivalent responses provided by participants in a series of focus groups around their experiences with pornography. I argue that these ambivalences reflect participants’ tendencies to attach themselves to “happy affects” as they emerged within the sociality of the focus group encounter and therefore offer glimpses into the situated and relational nature of subjectivity. To the extent that sociality is a key feature of the focus group method, I suggest that focus groups might be utilized to queer the field of sex research more broadly.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-05-09T08:59:53Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221097344
Queer Asias: Genders and sexualities across borders and boundaries
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  Authors: Michelle H. S. Ho, Evelyn Blackwood
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  In this introduction, we highlight the developments and transformations that have been put forward and situate our examination of Queer Asias within that context. We then turn to the contributions in this special issue, which collectively examine the intricate and imbricated flows of capital, power, intimacy, citizenship, sexual politics, and categories of gender and sexual (self-)identification in and across Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the United States. The articles in this special issue take up the following questions through an exploration of local genealogies of sexual practices, intimacies, and meanings in people’s everyday lives: What forms of categories, politics, and activism have gender and sexually diverse peoples across East and Southeast Asia embraced, constructed, and challenged in the 2010s through the early 2020s' What new theories have scholars developed and to what end' Whose politics are now being advocated and how might their activism contest older strategies and discourses'
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-05-06T06:34:33Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221092153
“Sex as a way to gain some control”: Sexual subjectivity
during the COVID-19 pandemic
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  Authors: Erika Montanaro, Jessamyn Bowling, Shayna Farris, Autumn Scarborough, Brianna Moody, Naomi Rawitz
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted dynamics of sexual health, including sexual subjectivity, or the way in which someone thinks of themself as a sexual being and feels entitled to pleasure. This study examines how adults in the US perceive changes in their sexual subjectivity related to the pandemic. We conducted an online survey (N = 326), and included thematic analyses related to open-ended questions. The following themes emerged: intentional self-reflection, control of change, control of perspective, control of relationships, control of communication, and control of sexual behavior. Our findings have implications for psychological and public health approaches. We find large overlap of “capacity and engagement in self-reflection” across other themes. The implications and durability of these changes are unknown.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-05-06T05:52:40Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221097342
“The queers hate me because I’m too butch”: Goldilocks masculinity
among non-heterosexual men
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  Authors: Canton Winer
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  A growing body of scholarship finds that hegemonic masculinity is evolving to produce hybrid masculinities that contain elements of both dominant and marginalized masculinities. Hybrid masculinity theory argues that incorporating marginalized masculinities into the mainstream conceals inequality while continuing to reproduce it. Regarding sexuality, however, the bulk of this research has centered heterosexual men’s perspectives on non-heterosexual masculinities. Instead, I ask: How do non-heterosexual men experience masculinity' Based on interviews with 29 non-heterosexual men, I find pressures to fit within a “goldilocks zone” of masculinity, emphasizing a floor and a ceiling to idealized masculinity. The goldilocks masculinity produced by these bi-directional pressures mirrors and elaborates upon hegemonic masculinity and hybrid masculinity, including emphases on the dominant themes of race, class, and body. I situate goldilocks masculinity as a subtype of hybrid masculinity, while also focusing on how men from the margins simultaneously incorporate and distance themselves from hegemonic masculinity.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-05-06T04:49:41Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221097332
Queer encounters: Navigating ‘gay-friendly’ neighbourhoods with (and
against) cultural maps of homophobia
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  Authors: Emma Spruce
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article provides an intersectional analysis of LGBTQ definitions, experiences and perceptions of the ‘gay-friendly’ neighbourhood. It draws on interviews with a diverse group of LGBTQ people living in the London neighbourhood of Brixton to provide a situated interrogation of the ways that evaluations of place-based ‘gay-un/friendliness’ are made. The article argues that LGBTQ people’s experiences of local places are frequently framed through cultural maps, which sustain and connect racialized and classed spatializations of sexual progress across multiple scales. Despite this tendency, however, other accounts – in particular those of long-term residents and queers of colour – provide contradictory evaluations of Brixton’s ‘gay-friendliness’. These trouble dominant assumptions about the conditions needed for LGBTQ flourishing and thereby suggest an expanded horizon for urban sexual politics. Examining the paradox of Brixton’s designation as ‘gay-unfriendly’ even as it is a vibrant site of LGBTQ life, the article demonstrates the importance of an intersectional approach that attends to variations and specificities in the relationship between sexual politics, local places and LGBTQ experiences.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-05-04T10:29:38Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221091451
Mainstream novelty: Examining the shifting visibility of drag performance
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  Authors: Shayne Zaslow
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This mixed-methods analysis seeks to understand the shifting visibility of drag performance in the wake of RuPaul’s Drag Race and increasing mainstream exposure. Using a publics/counterpublics framing popularized by Michael Warner, this work argues that RuPaul’s Drag Race has become a drag “public,” while drag at the local level has shifted from insular subculture to counterpublic. This shift is marked by both a new and different hierarchy of drag performance that has altered the drag scene on all levels. This hierarchy imposes standards and expectations about how drag, as an embodied art on the local level, “should” look which influences drag’s reception.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-04-28T11:44:27Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221091447
“I Didn’t Know Ace Was a Thing”: Bisexuality and pansexuality as
identity pathways in asexual identity formation
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  Authors: Canton Winer, Megan Carroll, Yuchen Yang, Katherine Linder, Brittney Miles
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Identity formation for asexual people can be complicated by limited societal awareness of asexualities. Consequently, people who eventually identify on the asexuality spectrum often adopt other sexual identities in their early lives. In this paper, we extend sexual identity development theory by analyzing the identity trajectories of asexual-spectrum people who once identified as bisexual or pansexual. Quantitative data suggests that about half of asexual-spectrum respondents once identified as bisexual or pansexual and a third closely associate with bisexual or pansexual terminology. Qualitative data supports these findings, revealing that bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality are not always seen as mutually exclusive categories by asexual individuals. We argue that the intelligibility of bi-/pansexuality positions them as identity pathways for many asexual-spectrum individuals who experience equal (albeit little to no) attraction toward people of any gender.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-04-28T08:08:54Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221085485
“Who is the mum' Who is the dad'”: Same-sex couples’ motivations for
and experiences of parenthood
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  Authors: Kayleigh Charlton
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This research is an interpretative phenomenological analysis of same-sex couples’ decision-making process and experience when starting a family. Four same-sex couples with children participated in virtual semi-structured interviews. There is limited sociological research offering in-depth analysis of the relationship between sexual minority identities and the motivations, desires, and experiences of parenthood. This research reveals an array of complexities in the timing of parenthood. Participants also discuss the importance of financial and relationship stability before starting a family and the challenges and uncertainties throughout their unique adoption and IVF journeys. Moreover, participants reported the ongoing impact of the institutions of, and assumptions underpinning, heteronormativity on their experiences as a family, as well as the coping mechanisms they employed to counteract the consequences of heteronormativity.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-04-28T03:07:03Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221091485
Pleasuring bodies: Performativity and sexual play
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  Authors: Simon Clay
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores the ways gay and queer men employ the concept of ‘play’ in relation to sex. Using Judith Butler’s theory of performativity to analyse the experiences of 16 individuals from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia who identified as a gay and/or queer man or a member of the gay community, I present how my participants used ‘play’ to refer to casual and/or kinky sexual encounters, describe certain safer sex practices, and delineate the difference between queer and straight sexual identities. ‘Playing’ also involved a range of personally cultivated rules connected to the pursuit of well-being. When these rules were broken, the activity no longer felt ‘playful’ and became risky for some. ‘Play’ was ultimately a way for my participants to discuss how risk, pleasure, desire, identity, relationships, and personal well-being related to sexual practices.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-04-27T11:45:57Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221080522
Pornification as Westernization on the semi-periphery: The history of the
Hungarian ‘porn boom’ in the 1990s
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  Authors: Gergely Csányi, Fanni Dés, Anikó Gregor
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  The aim of this article is to reconsider ‘pornification’ as a universal concept to describe the mediatized process of proliferation of pornographic images in cultural spaces. Based on a textual and discursive analysis of newspaper clippings from the 1990s, autobiographical books and semi-structured interviews with Hungarian porn industry participants, this article explores the local factors that made Hungary an ideal place for the international porn industry to expand production after 1989. This article contributes to the growing body of literature in Porn Studies, which emphasizes the importance of the industrial nature and global inequalities in porn production. We examine the local discourses that justified the ‘porn boom’ as a sign of westernization and the country’s catching-up to the West and present the key factors in the capitalist reintegration process that led to the expansion of the Hungarian porn industry.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-04-26T04:41:53Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221092651
Exploring the role of place in sex work through participant photography
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  Authors: Kathleen C Sitter, Alison L Grittner, Taryn Fritz, Amy C Burke, Emily Ophus
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  In this article, the authors explore the place-based experiences of sex workers and how these experiences intersect with the juridical realm of sex work. The article begins with an overview of the model informing Canadian legislation, how these laws influence spatial practices, and the impact of these practices on the lives of sex workers. Drawing on findings from a visual research study where 15 sex workers used photography and art to explore their lived experiences, the authors describe how sex work places are shaped by their juridical contexts, influencing experiences of power and privilege, collaboration, identity, stigma, autonomy, safety and support services. These findings highlight that place is a critical factor shaping participants’ overall experiences in the sex industry and contributes to the disparate realities of sex work in the Canadian context. Participant photographs are also described in this article, as these visual representations further communicate the role of place as experienced and understood by sex workers. Recommendations include legislative considerations, inclusive service delivery practices as identified by participants, and a call for further research that examines place-based experiences of sex work on an international scale.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-04-24T04:07:35Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221088150
Respectable outness: Examining the coming-out narratives of Latin American
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual YouTube celebrity vloggers
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  Authors: Diego Garcia-Rabines, Emilia Fernandez-Fernandez, Lucila Rozas-Urrunaga
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual YouTube celebrities have come to the limelight of popular media culture. This article explores how 10 of the most popular and influential YouTubers from three Latin American countries (Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico) have come to occupy lesbian, gay, and bisexual subject positions in their coming out vlogs. We argue that through the entwinement of YouTube’s political economy of celebrity and performances of respectability, these vloggers were able to turn their coming-outs into a form of emotional labor that positions them as exemplary models of queer success within the neoliberal economy and cultural regime.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-04-23T02:03:08Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221085254
Sex as self-injury: The appearance of a new diagnostic category in Sweden
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  Authors: Ingrid Wall, Sara Johnsdotter
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  “Sex as self-injury” is a well-established concept within Swedish society and is a new label for categorizing sexual risk-taking. The phenomenon has been discussed in Sweden since 2008, and about a decade later the concept appeared for the first time in Swedish scientific literature. “Sex as self-injury” is not yet an idea accepted by the international research field, but it can be assumed that it will eventually reach the international arena: the discourse about “self-destructive sex” has the potential to be established as a new diagnostic category of sexual dysfunction through “concept creep.” In this article, based on an analysis of media material from Sweden, we argue that the burgeoning discourse around “sex as self-injury” leads to a further strengthening of the normative division between “good” and “bad” sexualities, as described in Gayle Rubin’s work on a sex hierarchy.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-04-13T05:10:07Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221077554
‘Maybe I’m a quiet activist’: Sex work scholars and negotiations of
‘minor’ academic-activism
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  Authors: Mary Laing, Ian R Cook, Tom Baker, Octavia Calder-Dawe
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  With the intensification of calls for social ‘impact’ from research, there is renewed emphasis on academic-activism as a means to realize social change. But what ‘counts’ as activism in these visions of academic-activist impact' Drawing on interviews with sex work scholars in the United Kingdom and Aotearoa New Zealand, we examine the borders – and the disruption of borders – between ‘traditional’ forms of activism and a wider array of more ‘minor’ practices frequently perceived as too ‘ordinary’ to claim that label. In doing this, we explore quiet, implicit and everyday forms of activism, arguing that activism is embodied, frequently undertaken by those who do not self-identify as activists, and sits ambivalently within broader institutional drives for research-based ‘impact’.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-04-02T12:36:23Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607211068690
(Poly-)Parenthood between project logic and gender identity
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  Authors: Michel Raab
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Romantic love unites a man and woman as a couple. The birth of a child confirms the righteousness of this union and prolongs it into eternity – so the myth goes. Simultaneously, the demand for a well-planed and economically optimized parenthood is increasing. How do (potential) non-monogamous parents deal with these multiple demands' Based on an intersectional multi-level-analysis of 13 interviews, the article describes three gender-specific modes of subjectivation: A strong self-identification with the ideal of the autonomous subject, deconstructing fatherhood while reproducing motherhood and poly-parenthood as a project of social planning. The article shows which narratives of personal development occur empirically in relation to relationship management and parenthood, and how these narratives are either reconciled or weighed against each other. It becomes clear that the idea of polyamory as a means for personal development is widespread and is partly accompanied by an ideal of individual independence of an autonomous subject which does not go well with parenthood. Deconstructing fatherhood while reproducing motherhood turns out to systematically reinforce traditional gendered modes of subjectivation. It also became evident that there is an underlying idea of community development in which children become a part of a comprehensive project of joint self-improvement
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-03-30T03:45:46Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607211056880
Truths, fakes and the deserving queer migrant
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  Authors: Matthew Abbey
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores the role of truth within queer migration. By analysing a host of cultural production – including the verbatim theatre performance Rights of Passage by Claire Summerskill, the short film Crypsis by Christopher McGill, the ethnofictional film Samira by Nicola Mai, and the film The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson – I will challenge the necessity of attempting to discover the truth of queer migrants as sexual and gendered subjects, particularly as related to asylum claims. Yet if questions are raised about the importance of truth, this also demands analysing the role of faking sexuality and gender, and ‘fake’ queer migrants more broadly, referring to those who allegedly fabricate their sexuality and gender to claim asylum. Instead of suggesting faking implies the possibility of undeservingness, I use faking as a theoretical tool to understand the demands of truth, and how faking may become means to subvert the grounds of who is considered a deserving queer migrant seeking asylum. By disrupting the binary between truths and fakes, the very notion of there being truths of queer migrants (and the subject more broadly) will be questioned.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-03-28T08:30:14Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221080509
Book Reviews: The Tenacity of the Couple Norm: Intimate Citizenship
Regimes in a Changing Europe
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  Authors: Arlene Stein
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-03-27T05:18:17Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221079700
Exploring kinship and the desire to be parents in Spanish same-sex couples
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  Authors: Laura Domínguez de la Rosa, Francisco Manuel Montalbán Peregrín
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Empirical evidence has settled controversy over the effect on children of being raised by same-sex parents. However, other issues have emerged that are related to this family model. The aim of this study was to identify discourses linked to the desire to be parents and to the construction of kinship in lesbian women and gay men parents. We analysed a documentary project (‘Familiarízate’) produced in Spain by the Spanish national Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals, and Bisexuals. We found that the narrative on the desire to be parents was mainly shaped by previously established definitions of marriage and family. We also identified a set of interesting paradoxes and tensions in some of the discourses that challenged traditional models of family and kinship.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-03-25T06:59:38Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607221080511
‘I feel so much better in myself’: Exploring meaningful non-erotic
outcomes of BDSM participation
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  Authors: Emma L Turley
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Although research tends to focus on the sexual and/or erotic aspects of consensual BDSM participation, there are many non-erotic and nonsexual beneficial outcomes arising from participating in BDSM. This research aims to elucidate those other meaningful aspects of BDSM that reach beyond the sexual in order to highlight their salience for BDSM practitioners and to ensure that these non-erotic aspects of BDSM participation are not overlooked. Eleven regular practitioners of consensual BDSM took part in customized in-depth, face to face interviews conducted within an interpretive phenomenological perspective that focused on the lived experiences of consensual BDSM. The template analysis method was used to analyse the data. Findings illustrated that various non-erotic and non-sexual aspects of BDSM are important to practitioners. These elements are necessary and significant to participants’ lived experiences of BDSM and will be discussed in this paper in terms of transformative experiences and demonstrate that BDSM should be studied from a holistic perspective.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-02-28T12:58:04Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607211056879
Is India’s rape crisis a recent phenomenon' At the crossroads of
religious nationalism, caste, and gender
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  Authors: Sunita Manian
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Recent national and international media accounts of urban educated women in India being sexually assaulted and brutally murdered have raised legitimate worries that India is experiencing a “rape crisis.” This paper challenges the notion that sexual violence in India is a recent phenomenon and argues that sexual violence has been the tool of control of marginalized groups in India including Muslims, the peoples of Northeastern India, Dalits and Adivasis, with the women from these communities bearing most of the brunt of the gendered sexual violence. These forces have been exacerbated by the rising ideology of militant Hindu-supremacy in the last decade, buoyed by the support of Indian middle/upper classes/castes, simultaneously accompanied by constructions of Indian masculinity that relegates women to the domestic sphere. Middle/upper class Indian women negotiating the newfound opportunities in India’s neo-liberal economy find themselves subject to the sexual violence that has long victimized others marginalized by religion, caste, ethnicity, and gender. I underscore the Janus-faced nature of Indian middle-class protests against sexual violence targeting (middle-class) women, given the widespread support among the elites for Hindu supremacy which draws its power through the sexualized violence it inscribes on the bodies of those marginalized by their religion, caste, ethnicity and gender.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-02-25T10:45:48Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607211051545
Drawgasms: Playing with expectations and experiences of pleasure through
multimodal accounts
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  Authors: Miikka J Lehtonen, Katriina Heljakka, Krista Kosonen
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  Drawing on a study consisting of 29 multimodal accounts of orgasms, we make visible processes, emotions, and notions of playfulness that highlight the critical role of orgasms in transcending the fleeting distinction between reality and play. As sexual pleasure does not necessarily result from experiencing an orgasm, our data also reveals how playful strategies are enacted in order to mitigate ambiguity and societal norms. Instead of seeing the orgasm as a physiological or psychological change in an individual or as an epitome of “good” sex, the multimodal accounts employed in the study reveal attitudes, assumptions, and expectations related to playful pleasure.
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-01-07T05:09:22Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607211067346
Book Review: Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing
Homelessness
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  Authors: TehQuin D Forbes
  First page: 407
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-01-07T06:05:47Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607211068691
When Illness Is a Crime: Book Review of Punishing Disease: HIV and the
Criminalization of Sickness
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  Authors: Andrew Spieldenner
  First page: 409
  Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Sexualities
  PubDate: 2022-01-09T04:14:04Z
  DOI: 10.1177/13634607211068694