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Sexualities
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.692  Citation Impact (citeScore): 2 Number of Followers: 15  Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)ISSN (Print) 1363-4607 - ISSN (Online) 1461-7382 Published by Sage Publications  [1176 journals]
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- “The gay clubs are it”: An analysis of straight women’s motivations
for frequenting gay bars-
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Authors: Kailey P Peckford
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
The question of whether straight individuals belong in gay bars has long been a topic of debate. But why do straight cisgender women go to gay bars in the first place' Through qualitative semi-structured interviews, I analyze women’s motivations for frequenting gay bars in Canada and the United States. My findings show that straight cisgender women go to gay bars to pursue safety and joy—and that these motivations are complicated by reflections on belonging in a space that was not made for them. Decisions to frequent gay bars were positioned as a better alternative to straight bars which were described as dangerous or boring. More generally, this study offers new insights about group boundaries and safety in nightlife spaces.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-08-24T02:30:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241276580
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- “Porn is blunt […] I had way more LGBTQ+ friendly education through
porn”: The experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals with online pornography-
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Authors: Isabelle Marie Flory, Eran Shor
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
While public and academic discussions on pornography’s effects are often plagued by moralistic claims, research on the self-perceived preferences and effects of pornography has been growing in recent years. Yet, we still do not know enough about the role pornography plays in the lives of regular viewers, particularly LGBTQ+ individuals. In this study, we examine the perceptions and views of 87 regular pornography viewers who identified as non-heterosexual, non-cis-gendered, or both (these 87 were part of a larger sample of 302 regular pornography viewers). Our study joins a growing body of work that explores the views, experiences, and preferences of individuals who consume pornography. We found that pornography played a crucial role for LGBTQ+ individuals, helping them to form their gender and sexual identities, serving as a practical guide for the technical aspects of engaging in non-heterosexual sex, and normalizing non-heterosexual orientations, acts, and identities.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-08-22T06:05:06Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241274526
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- “Defend your children, they can be taken by two gay men”: A scoping
review of the conflating and diversionary discourses used in same-sex
marriage debates-
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Authors: Xavier J Mills
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
The use of direct popular votes such as plebiscites, referendums, and postal surveys to determine the right of same-sex couples to marry have proliferated in recent years, particularly across the Global North. By including the public in the decision-making process, serious debates have been fermented about the morality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) rights. Based on a scoping review of the available English language literature, this paper maps the key findings from 24 peer reviewed studies to offer a cross-national analysis of conflating and diversionary discourses used by pro- and anti-SSM advocates. This paper finds that despite ostensibly being about LGBTQ + sexual rights, these debates commonly conflate SSM with other unsubstantiated ‘threats’, categorised here as operating across the global, national, and individual levels. The findings suggest that SSM debates consistently conflated the issue with international human rights discourses, alongside notions of ‘race’, gender, family, and reproduction as a strategy to garner public opinion. This study reveals a complex network of discourses where the rights of LGBTQ + people are continuously harnessed for political agendas extending beyond the specific efforts to legislate SSM. This paper concludes with the limitations of this review and possible directions for future research.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-08-20T03:35:01Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241274504
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- K-pop Fandom’s affective role in shaping knowledge of gender and
sexuality among LGBTQ+ fans in Australia and the Philippines-
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Authors: Thomas Baudinette, Kelsey E Scholes
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Drawing on interviews with 17 K-pop fans from Australia and the Philippines who identity as LGBTQ+, this article explores and theorizes the role of K-pop fandom in the production of knowledge concerning gender and sexuality. Through an analytical approach sensitive to the affective discourse produced by fans, this article establishes that K-pop fandom operates as a queer space which normalizes queer sexuality and gendered performance through the production of feelings of security, attraction, and relief. Further, analysis of the LGBTQ + fans’ discourse uncovers that the androgynous gendered performances of K-pop idols facilitate fans’ queering of heteropatriarchal and heteronormative ideologies.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-08-19T12:18:23Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241275855
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- Evolution of asexual identities in India: Shaping asexual conversations
through lived experiences and digital platforms-
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Authors: Malavika, Bibhuti M Kachhap
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
The ideation of asexuality is inherently radical and subversive, as it challenges the centrality of sex and sexual behaviour in a heteronormative society. This article aims to study the emergence and construction of Indian asexual discourse by examining the lived experiences and narratives of Indian asexual individuals. A mixed-methods qualitative approach is employed, utilizing semi-structured interviews conducted through snowball sampling, along with an analysis of online Indian asexual platforms. Additional data were gathered from digital asexual archives, dating sites, and social media platforms that actively engage in discussions about Indian asexual experiences, desires, and intimacy. Emerging Indian asexualities are constituting a novel ethos in Indian sexual practices by creating an alternative language of desire and intimacy.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-08-19T10:35:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241271797
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- Black queer femme and non-binary individuals’ polyamory: An act of
liberation-
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Authors: Manijeh Badiee, Evita Sawyers
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Queer, polyamorous folk are redefining kinship in the US but BIPOC’s perspectives are absent. Due to metaphorical captivity, exclusion from traditional kinship, and intersectional oppression, queer African Americans’ polyamory entails liberation. A queer of color critique framework was applied to analyze social media content of polyamorous, Black American, queer, femme and non-binary interlocuters. We (a) provide historical, sociopolitical context, (b) center interlocuters’ experiential knowledge of polyamory spaces, and (c) describe their strategies for navigating themselves, relationships, and communities. Their strategies provide a survival guide for oppression and path towards liberation.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-08-19T02:27:02Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241274509
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- Still here, still queer' Queer lives and subjectivities in dementia
care-
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Authors: Linn J Sandberg, Anna Siverskog
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This article explores possibilities for the emergence of queer lives and queer subjectivities in dementia care, the meaning of being queer for people living in residential dementia care and how they relate to queer subjectivity. Our study, drawing on qualitative interviews with four people living in dementia care homes, show how being queer was associated with earlier phases of one’s life course and youthful, sexually active bodies. The dementia care home was described as a depersonalized, desexualized and segregated spatial condition where queer subjectivities could not emerge. However, although participants rarely became recognizable and intelligible as queer in the care context their positionalities must be understood in more complex terms than visible/invisible. Instead people in dementia care sometimes engaged in queer opacity as a tactic to refuse visibility in a care context characterized by surveillance and lack of control and agency.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-08-18T02:17:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241274868
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- “Were in this together” - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants:
Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality-
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Authors: Christopher Pullen, Ieuan Franklin
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This paper explores the work of regional NGO organisations in the UK that explicitly support LGBTQ + asylum claimants, framing the testimonials of both service providers and service users, in considering issues of co-presence, and imagined equality, that may be experienced between the parties. While framing the cultural and political environment at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, and critiquing citizenship as a purely hegemonic nationalistic concept by drawing from theories of “intimate citizenship” and “Care-tizenship”, this paper considers the dynamics of collective advocacy. Offering an intersectional approach that frames issues of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and regionality, the authors consider the significance of co-presence related to citizenship, that affords an optimistic sense of equality when LGBTQ + service providers support LGBTQ + asylum claimants.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-08-18T01:43:32Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241275865
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- Ambivalent, discontent, and sceptical: Marginalised queer lives in the
post-same-sex marriage era in Taiwan-
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Authors: Lik Sam Chan
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This study explores the significance of the legalisation of same-sex marriage for LGBTQ individuals in Taiwan, both as sexual minorities and as Taiwanese. Through in-depth interviews with 33 LGBTQ individuals, three distinct subject positions were identified: ambivalent homonationalists, who acknowledged their marginalised status but endorsed the state’s homonationalist project; discontent nationalist queers, who expressed dissatisfaction with the same-sex marriage law and showed indifference toward the homonationalist project; and sceptical queer nationalists, who recognised their lack of full citizenship rights and were pessimistic about the role of the same-sex marriage law in elevating Taiwan’s international recognition. By considering the limitations of the same-sex marriage law and geopolitical tension, this study reveals the complex outlooks of LGBTQ individuals in the post-same-sex marriage Taiwan.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-08-16T01:52:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241274606
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- Cyber toy stories: The broken promises and broken parts of interactive sex
toys-
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Authors: Ekat Osipova, Azadeh Badieijaryani, Katta Spiel
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Interactive sex toys shape how we understand sexual intimacies and pleasures on an individual and societal scale. Yet analytical and critical research on actual devices is scant. To help address this, we conducted an in-depth Feminist Content Analysis of interactive products offered by one Dutch manufacturer, including text and video material that discusses and presents those products. Applying the theoretical lens of technosexual scripts, we show how one of the largest industry stakeholders engages in promising a utopian sex-future, while upholding and re-inscribing normative scripts for how sexual encounters with others and oneself can be technologically mediated. Our analysis illustrates the far-reaching consequences of skewed (and unkept) promises of safety, health and optimization, which implicates technologists as well as marketing strategists.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-08-16T01:43:20Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241274983
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- Lingering longer: Performance, queer of color joy, and Baltimore’s
VERSION-
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Authors: Michael Tristano
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This essay moves through the nuances and complications of queer of color joy’s potentiality. Mobilized through performance, queer of color joy is theorized as containing possibilities “to explore the limits of human curiosity; renegotiate what relationships can look, feel, sound, and smell like; and use desire to propel us through the social world where we refuse colonial futures and expand decolonial options” (Tristano, 2022: 279). Through a performance ethnography of VERSION, a dance party for queer and trans people of color which takes place monthly in Baltimore, MD, USA, I detail how queer of color joy circulates through complex modes of power. I move to theorize queer of color joy further by exploring how queer of color joy lingers. Gesturing towards after the party (Chambers-Letson, 2018), I detail how queer of color joy is performed outside of VERSION; after 2:00 a.m., on the sidewalk, and through clouds of smoke. Lingering, I argue, further animates queer of color joy’s radical potential through queer relationality to nourish queer and trans of color lifeworlds.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-08-02T04:06:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241263060
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- Mainstreaming queerness in Thai boys’ love narratives: Impact on gay
identity perceptions in Bangkok’s society-
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Authors: Ekathep Michaels, Eakachat Joneurairatana, Veerawat Sirivesmas
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
The intricate interplay between media representation and experiences of minority groups in Southeast Asia necessitates a comprehensive analysis of popular culture’s impact on marginalized communities. This mixed-method study investigates the portrayal of homosexual male characters in contemporary Thai Boy’s Love (BL) series and its connection to the authentic experiences of gay men in Bangkok. Through interviews with the casting team and producers of a prominent BL series, the research aims to elucidate the creative process underpinning these portrayals. The study further examines the perceptions and identity development of gay men as depicted in BL narratives, and how heterosexual women viewers interpret this representation. A questionnaire involving 330 participants of diverse orientations indicates that 78.6% of gay men consider BL narratives to be misrepresentative, while 69% of heterosexual women perceive them as accurate, raising concerns about the influence of media representations on identity formation within the gay community. Moreover, the marked disparities in beliefs regarding whether gay individuals aspire to the appearance portrayed by BL characters (with 98.3% of heterosexuals, 60% of bisexuals, and 100% of lesbians concurring, in contrast to 71.8% of gay respondents dissenting) emphasize the significance of diverse and accurate representation in shaping identities and self-perception.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-07-30T06:17:17Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241263194
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- Book review: AIDS & Representation: Queering portraiture during the
AIDS crisis in America-
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Authors: Linda Roland Danil
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-07-22T10:16:26Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241266082
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- Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art
of Helen Chadwick-
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Authors: Amber Husain
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the artist Helen Chadwick’s 1989 digital montage series Viral Landscapes as an intervention in discourses of immunity circulating around the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the UK. The Viral Landscapes are unusual for art of this period in working closely with medical concepts and technologies, if only to problematise the ways in which these were mobilised. Strategically appropriating ideas of ‘psychic immunology’ emergent at the time, the work, I argue, formulates an affective ground for the extension of immunological responsibility beyond the confines of human bodies and societies. Through a close examination of the artist’s methods and the work’s aesthetics, I identify therein an alternative model of the subject from the closed bodily system and fixed identity presupposed by contemporary biomedicine. Influenced in particular by Deleuzo-Guattarian theories of machinic desire, as well as queer-theoretical constructions of the sexual subject as polymorphous, Chadwick’s model of the psychically immune subject seems to be grounded in a vital sexual energy, constructed through interpenetration by multiple, diffuse entities in ecological relation.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-07-22T09:54:21Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241267087
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- Doubly marginalized' Japanese gay men with interracial desires
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Authors: Hazuki Kaneko, Diana Khor
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Postwar Japan has built a new self-image as a peaceful, ethnically homogeneous island nation, obscuring the imperialist past. In this context, same-ethnic/racial partnering or so-called ethnic endogamy has been reinforced, whether gay or straight, as a normative sexual desire and practice. Japanese people who engage in intimate relationships with foreigners are potentially considered deviant and subject to social marginalization. Drawing on in-depth interview data, this research focuses on the experiences of Japanese gay men with such peripheral desires, examining how they negotiate their partner preferences when encountering social disapproval or stigma. Further, this research also discusses how their racialized desire intersects with their queer sexuality, simultaneously resisting and perpetuating same-ethnic/racial partnering normativity.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-07-22T05:02:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241266430
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- Phallic metaphors and metonyms: Emerging meanings of Viagra and
masculinity in news media-
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Authors: Mie Birk Jensen
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
When Viagra was first introduced, it was presented as a new pharmaceutical with potentially revolutionizing effects in various forms of media across the globe. While it is no longer a new pharmaceutical, it still continues to find its way into news media. This article explores the continuous circulation of Viagra in news media over time, pointing to a global impact of the relationship between pharmaceutical advertising and news media, which play into reconfigurations of masculinity. Through an analysis of Danish news articles mentioning Viagra in different times, it is argued that Viagra is not only made news-worthy as a pharmaceutical; it has penetrated our language as a phallic metaphor and metonymic concept through which human and non-human actors become valorized as im/potent in different ways. This is further discussed as a potential indication of how gendered processes of medicalization can affect our understanding of the capabilities of the human body, and by extension the language we make use of to grasp the world we live in, as well as ourselves.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-07-21T11:47:21Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241261842
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- Chemsex as wild self-care
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Authors: Simon Clay
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Chemsex has received increasing scholarly attention over the past few years and is frequently defined as the sexualised use of synthetic drugs. There is an emerging binary within the literature on chemsex that portrays it as either inherently risky or liberatory. This binary assumes that chemsex is a stable category of sex and always involves integrating ‘dangerous’ synthetic substances into sex. Drawing from interviews with 16 gay/queer men and individuals who identified with the gay community from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, I critique the underpinning assumptions of this binary and show how these individuals used chemsex as a technique of ‘wild self-care’. This unique model of self-care recuperates ‘dangerous’ practices in emancipatory and life-affirming ways. It shows how chemsex is both risky and liberatory in ever-changing and unexpected ways.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-07-21T11:13:04Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241267090
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- “We are in a very precarious position”: Exploring the resilience of
Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in
Pakistan-
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Authors: Alamgir Alamgir, Emily Gray, Peter Kelly, Seth Brown
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This paper draws upon empirical data in order to offer insights to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities in Peshawar City, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. The paper also considers the resilience that the community developed during this time. Drawing on Butler’s concept of precarity and liveability, we in this article demonstrate how the precarious positionalities of Khawaja Sara and Hijra were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic and thereafter in Pakistan. 10 members of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities were engaged in face-to-face interviews, and the paper demonstrates how community is made and maintained by Khawaja Sara and Hijra, who are amongst the most vulnerable, marginalized, oppressed, and isolated people in South Asian communities. Whilst not shying away from the violence that characterises the lives of participants, who face familial rejection, community, and social pressure to conform to strict cultural gender norms, and sexual and physical violence, the paper also works to highlight the ongoing adaptability and resilience of these ancient communities through engaging with the ways in which participants supported each other through the pandemic.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-07-21T02:09:23Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241264955
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- Strategies of passing: Hypervisible bodies, disrespectable affinities, and
Syrian trans refugees in Lebanon-
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Authors: Nisrine Chaer
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
In today’s Lebanon, Syrian trans refugees face intersecting systems of violence that position them as hypervisible ‘deviants’ in multiple ways: as refugees without formal legal residency, as trans individuals without congruent gender markers, and as working-class individuals. Attending ethnographically to the notions of hypervisibility and (dis)respectability that underpin such deviances, this article explores how the Lebanese security-morality apparatus enforces hypervisibility on Syrian trans women by eroding their respectability and privacy. In the context of recent crackdowns on Syrian-majority areas and LGBT spaces, I look specifically to how (dis)respectability is deployed by and against Syrian trans women in their crisscrossing of the boundaries of both a ‘trans closet’ and ideals of middle-class Lebanese (cis)womanhood. My analysis evolves the concept of respectability to account for how my interlocuters navigate the permeability of their private spaces, secure themselves against potential harm, and assert their sovereignty. This is accomplished through the use of two strategies: ‘respectable passing’—investing in markers of class and citizenship over those of gender, and ‘disrespectable affinities’—engaging in a politics of the vulgar and forging social connections between hypervisible communities, effecting alternative forms of sociality that unsettle the border between trans and cis Syrians in the racialized and classed order of contemporary Beirut.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-07-19T05:07:59Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241262147
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- Both because of and in spite of: Towards the reclamation of queercrip joy
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Authors: Megan Ingram, Kai Jacobsen
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent people are frequently used to represent pain, suffering, shame, and disgust in dominant heteronormative and ableist discourses. However, many queer, trans, and crip scholars, artists, and activists have reclaimed previously pathologized and denigrated experiences as sites of pleasure and joy. Importantly, this queercrip approach to joy does not position joy as an opposite or replacement for pain, but embraces joy and pain as simultaneous and co-constitutive. This essay explores the proliferations, potentialities, and limitations of queercrip joy as a site of resistance to cisheteronormativity and compulsory able-bodiedness. Specifically, we spotlight gender euphoria and disabled joy alongside the scholarship of authors like Sara Ahmed and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and the intersecting fields of crip theory, queer theory, trans studies, and affect theory. Ultimately, we argue that queercrip joy exists both because of and in spite of the pain of enduring oppression and physical and psychological pain. As such, queercrip joy is not merely a pure happy object, but a complicated formulation of intimacy, pleasure, pain, validation, refusal, and relationality–an indicator of the very attachments that allow us to be affected. Therefore, celebrating queercrip joy is an insufficient yet necessary tool for queer, trans, and disabled liberation.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-06-25T02:36:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241264319
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- A case of chronic survivance: Decolonizing the epidemiology of HIV
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Authors: Ivan Bujan
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This paper argues that integrating Native American art, tradition, and healing practices into public health offers an effective intervention for revitalizing conventional sexual health strategies within Native American and Two-Spirit communities. To illustrate, the paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of various practices employed by Sheldon Raymore, a Two-Spirit artist and storyteller from the Cheyenne River Sioux nation, including performance, tipi-making, and beading. To bridge the gap between care methodologies in settler clinics, focused on behavior change and biomedicine, and Native American healing practices rooted in tradition and ceremony, the paper introduces a conceptual framework termed “chronic survivance.” This framework merges Western epidemiological terminology with the Indigenous concept of “survivance,” coined by Anishinaabe cultural theorist Gerald Vizenor, which emphasizes themes of Indigenous survival and resistance amidst ongoing adversity. By employing this framework, the paper challenges the conventional understanding of HIV epidemiology, proposing that chronicity involves a complex interplay of discursive, cultural, and biopolitical practices, thus amenable to decolonization. Chronic survivance emerges as a tool for reimagining Indigenous well-being, bridging disparate traditions, and sustaining the enduring essence of Indigeneity amidst the persistence of U.S. settler colonialism.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-06-20T06:41:27Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241263437
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- The affective toll of COVID-19 on queer joy: A study of young people in
Toronto, Melbourne and New York-
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Authors: Cheery-Maria Attia, Sarah Flicker
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Pandemic restrictions shuttered educational, community and support spaces for queer youth. Despite the pervasive despair, many young, queer people found joy and opportunities for connection, empowerment and intimacy during this period. Through a qualitative thematic analysis of self-reported data from 270 young queer people in Toronto (82), Melbourne (90), and New York (98), this paper explores how queer joy is complicated by less positive and complex emotions such as fear and stress and is found in unexpected places such as school, friends/peers, sex/dating and coming out. We propose a definition of queer joy that attends to the myriad of complex and conflicting emotions that make joy possible. Queering understandings of joy allows educators and influential adults in young people’s lives to support queer youth in accessing joy.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-06-18T05:47:20Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241262142
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- Space, affect and contagious bodies: Representing HIV in 1990s Czech
cinema-
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Authors: Fanni Antalóczy
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Wiktor Grodecki’s trilogy – Not Angels But Angels (1994), Body Without Soul (1996) and Mandragora (1996) – depict the Czech queer sex industry of the 1990s. This article examines the films’ representational attitudes to queerness and contagion at the intersection of cultural geography, body studies and affect theory. The films equate queer with contagion. Queer practices question the definition of sexual orientations; spaces used for sex lose the dichotomy of public and private, and sexuality is reduced to bodily functions. Queer bodies are represented as endangered and dangerous at the same time: the virus they might be carrying and transmitting is present as a constant, invisible threat. The possible contagion of the bodies disrupts the borders of normativity and inscribes them with stigma, resulting in shame and fear as the dominant affects inscribed on spaces and experienced in/on bodies.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-06-14T06:17:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241261829
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- Analysing intersex rights narratives in Spain
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Authors: Lucas Platero, Sveta Solntseva
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
The last decade has seen significant legislative changes enacted for intersex people worldwide. In Spain, regional and national LGBTI+ laws that include the rights of intersex individuals have also been passed. Drawing on theories of how public problems are represented, this article analyses the representations of intersex rights in Spain, problematizing some of the assumptions currently embedded in political debates. An examination of the main discourses of the stakeholders involved in intersex debates between 2018 and 2023 found two primary discourse representations: (1) sex is binary by nature; and (2) intersex is an example of body diversity, tied to debates on gender self-determination and the new national LGBTI+ law. These representations have embodied consequences for intersex individuals, who are often subjected to non-consensual, irreversible and potentially harmful medical interventions. Despite the persistence of the pathologization of variations of sex characteristics, changes in legislation and key medical documents (such as identity cards and birth certificates), the emergence of intersex activism and intersex-inclusive policies indicate an important shift in intersex rights in Spain.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-06-13T10:04:07Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241259537
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- Queer mountains: Migrant drag performers reimagining sexual citizenship in
Germany-
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Authors: Tunay Altay
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This article seeks to understand how staging, performing and re-narrating experiences of queer migration can be utilized to radically reimagine queer migrants’ subjectivities and politics in today’s Germany. Informed by ethnographic research conducted between 2020 and 2023, including 22 qualitative interviews with drag performers, I focus on the emerging scene of ‘migrant drag’ in Germany, informed by transnational histories of queer performance and border-crossing. Through acts of migrant drag, ‘building queer mountains’ appears as a queer migrant practice of finding alternative pathways to overcome obstacles that limit queer migrant subjectivities and to claim locality and stages for queer migrant politics beyond the normative scripts of sexual citizenship. Ultimately, ‘building queer mountains’ shows that sexual citizenship, sustained by (homo)normative sexualizations and hierarchical racialization, could be ‘crossed’ and reimagined through the collective and creative work of a community in search of alternative worlds.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-06-12T07:15:03Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241259539
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- The femme factor: Transforming pop culture analyses through femme theory
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Authors: Rhea Ashley Hoskin, Karen Blair
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Scanning the indices of popular culture textbooks reveals an asymmetry: numerous entries on masculinities but not a single femininities entry. What does this asymmetry say about gender theory and, more specifically, femininity' While feminist theorists have produced important scholarship illuminating femininity as a patriarchal tool wielded through popular culture, these analyses often overlook how various axes of identity intersect with femininity, leaving a sizeable gap in both the conceptualization of femininity and the analysis of popular culture. This article examines how femme theory can help to both highlight and remedy gender theory’s tendency to privilege masculinity and overlook femininity. After providing an overview of femme theory and its core theoretical concepts, this article highlights femme theory’s utility in enriching our interpretations of representation.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-06-12T06:30:26Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241259540
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- Transgender HIV activism in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
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Authors: Yana Kirey-Sitnikova
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) is a region with the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world. Trans people are designated by UNAIDS as one of the key population groups susceptible to HIV. However, in 8 out of 12 EECA countries, they are not recognized as a key group by the state. This article explores HIV-related trans activism in EECA based on interviews with 13 activists. The participants’ goal was the construction of “trans” as a legible category with specific needs and its recognition by the state as a key population group susceptible to HIV distinct from other key groups, especially men having sex with men (MSM). Such recognition was thought to improve accessibility and acceptability of HIV services for trans people, especially trans women. In addition, HIV issues were strategically used to promote gender-affirming healthcare and legal gender recognition. Quantitative research (population size and HIV prevalence estimations) was extensively used to underpin advocacy. While the activists recognized the limitations of these quantification projects, they did not question “trans” as a discoverable and quantifiable category.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-06-11T10:50:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241260205
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- Forming brown commons through queer joy in butiki/baboy: A pride
conversation series-
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Authors: Ian Rafael Ramirez
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
In June 2023, Bangkô collective and Tambay Times Kids mobilized Filipino cis-heterosexual women and LGBTQ+ individuals to converse in a gathering which they called Butiki/Baboy: A Pride Conversation Series. Butiki/Baboy (literally Lizard/Pig) references a Filipino nursery song that goes “girl, boy, bakla, tomboy, butiki, baboy,” where butiki and baboy pertain to the made-inhuman others—those who are gender nonconforming and do not fit “Westernised” beauty standards. Conceived to discuss mundane queer topics that are the excess of relevant subjects highlighted during Pride Month, the 2023 iterations of Butiki/Baboy held at multiple sites around Los Baños, Laguna in the Philippines included sessions that revolved around narratives of queer intimacies of community development workers, queerbaiting on social media, radical joys in the mundanity of unfinished projects, and messy ecologies formed in the wilderness. This essay is interested in unpacking and understanding how queer joy emanates from this gathering of cisheterosexual women and LGBTQ+ individuals who are primarily cultural and creative workers, artists, and community development workers. It asks how queer joy, through Butiki/Baboy, affords moments of commoning. Taking the cue from José Esteban Muñoz who explains that the multifarious yet shared experience of suffering and hriving forms brown commons, I argue that Butiki/Baboy facilitated a space for engendering queer joy—that thing that is being banished from queer communities by an interlocking web of powers that tags queer bodies as unworthy and inhuman.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-06-11T02:50:55Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241261820
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- “Sexy but frightening”: Femme worldbuilding and feminist
revenge-
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Authors: Tamar Westphal
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Women-led revenge films are often lauded for feminist narratives and cathartic reversals of heteropatriarchal hegemony. However, many texts reify femmephobic systems of gender and power by construing violence and revenge as masculine, thus requiring heroines to adopt masculine tactics and weapons. Promising Young Woman (2020) breaks with genre conventions by constructing a world and protagonist that exemplify femme norms, values, and covert ways of operating. Drawing on queer and femme theoretical frameworks, I situate Promising Young Woman in a femme enclave of psychological thriller, positing it as an example of femme worldbuilding that explores how femme subjects assert power over their narratives.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-06-11T02:31:52Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241256518
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- ‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project
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Authors: Fran Amery
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
In the last few years, latent anti-trans sentiment within some corners of UK feminism has coalesced into a highly organised ‘gender critical’ movement that has seen considerable success in influencing policy and public debate. This article addresses ‘gender critical’ feminism as a lobbying movement, examining its orientation towards governance and power. It argues that the ‘gender critical’ movement must be understood as a biopolitical project indebted both to sexological work aimed at ‘normalising’ trans and intersex minds and bodies, and to 1970s feminist responses to this work. This project strives for the power to manage trans populations, both via direct surveillance of trans lives and indirectly, via attempts to counter the supposed threat to a broader cisfeminist population management project posed by trans identification.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-05-28T04:04:55Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241257397
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- Reimagining home and responsibility: The case of queer Indonesian Muslims
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Authors: Diego Garcia Rodriguez
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This article investigates the lived experiences of queer Indonesian Muslims by revealing how the intertwined concepts of tanggung jawab (responsibility) and home are navigated within the boundaries of national values, religious faith, and non-normative genders and sexualities. Through ethnographic research across Java, Indonesia, the analysis illustrates how tanggung jawab is enmeshed with societal and religious expectations that redefine the notion of home for queer Muslims. Home, in this context, transcends its meaning as a physical geography to represent an emotional and spiritual haven where family, faith, and queer identities intersect. The article further explores the relevance of biological and traditional family connections, presenting a contrast to the Western focus on queer chosen families. By exploring the symbiotic relationship between responsibility and home, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of queer Muslim subjectivities, exploring their unique strategies for forging identities and spaces of belonging within Indonesia’s heteronormative societal framework.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-05-16T11:15:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241248894
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- Resisting and transgressing cisheteronormativity at home: LGBT+
youths’ active strategies-
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Authors: Júlia Pascual-Bordas
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Many of the struggles and advances in LGBT+ rights are fought in domestic spaces. However, the political and emotional complexity of the home in relation to gender and sexual dissidence has received limited attention. This research aims to explore the discrimination and coping strategies of young LGBT+ youth in their family and personal home. Through a qualitative methodology, I examine how 27 LGBT+ youth from Bages (Catalonia) experience different home spaces according to their age, gender, and sexual orientation. The results show adultism and pressure to conform to cisheteronormative expectations at the family home. However, these norms dissolve in the personal home, allowing the free development of their LGBT+ identities. The study reveals the resistance and transformation strategies they use to tackle cisheteronormativity, highlighting home as a place of politics, negotiation, power, and complex emotions.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-05-14T04:07:08Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241248892
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- Pleasures of the city. An essay in memory of the Danish sociologist
Henning Bech-
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Authors: Morten Emmerik Wøldike, Poul Poder
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This essay pays homage to the late Danish sociologist Henning Bech's groundbreaking work on sexuality, urban life, phenomenology, and modernity. Bech's contributions are praised for their critical yet affirmative perspective, offering insights into the complexities of contemporary society, particularly regarding gender, sexuality, and urban life. Central to Bech’s thesis is the idea that the city itself is a dynamic space where sexuality is not only displayed but also actively generated, influencing people’s experiences and interactions. He challenges traditional notions of sexuality by arguing that it is not merely an inherent trait but a sociocultural construct deeply intertwined with urban life. By examining the aesthetic and erotic potential of urban spaces, he sheds light on the role of the city in shaping people’s tunings and experiences of pleasure. Bech conceptualizes male homosexuality as a form of existence rather than a fixed identity and explores the experiences of the male homosexuals while emphasizing broader shifts in societal attitudes towards sexuality and intimacy. Bech's sociology provides a valuable framework for appreciating the complexities of late modern social life. By foregrounding the aesthetic dimensions of the urban social world and adopting a critical yet affirmative stance, he offers a nuanced perspective that enriches our understanding of contemporary societies. Ultimately, Bech's legacy lies in his ability to provoke thought and challenge conventional wisdom, and thereby stimulating new innovative research.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-05-06T09:24:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241247694
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- Personality differences between individuals involved in polyamorous and
monogamous relationships-
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Authors: Paulina Banaszkiewicz
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Polyamory is a type of consensual non-monogamy (CNM) where the partners agree they may establish multiple simultaneous emotional relationships. In recent years, the number of scientific publications investigating polyamory has increased, but little attention has been paid to personality traits solely in this type of CNM. The present study took into account the Big Five personality factors, risk taking, and ambiguity tolerance. The study was conducted in a group of 258 participants, including 119 polyamorous subjects (70 women, 43 men and 6 nonbinary individuals) aged 18-52 years. As anticipated, individuals in polyamorous relationships scored higher on openness to experience, risk taking in social and ethical domains, and on ambiguity tolerance; they also scored lower on conscientiousness. The findings show that individuals involved in polyamorous relationships tend to present more complex thinking, greater tolerance to new and unclear situations, and lower compliance with social norms.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-05-06T09:11:54Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241252985
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- Disabled content creators on OnlyFans: Empowerment, representation, and
precarity-
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Authors: Alan Santinele Martino, Eleni Moumos, Rachell Trung
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This paper explores the intersection of disability and digital content creation on OnlyFans, a subscription-based social media platform known for its diverse creator community. Through a content analysis of 10 news articles and 22 Reddit threads focused on disability and OnlyFans, we investigate the experiences of disabled content creators in this dynamic digital landscape. OnlyFans has emerged as a promising employment option for people with disabilities, offering financial stability, independence, and a newfound sense of career control. However, concerns persist regarding potential impacts on disability-related benefits, highlighting the need for clearer support mechanisms. Furthermore, the platform has redefined power dynamics, allowing creators to reclaim agency over their narratives, particularly during the pandemic. It has not only transformed financial prospects but also served as a tool for managing health conditions and boosting self-confidence. These findings underscore OnlyFans’ role in fostering inclusivity and financial empowerment for disabled individuals. Our analysis also unveils broader societal challenges linked to disability and sexuality, including the de-sexualization and hypersexualization of disabled individuals. This emphasizes the urgency of cultivating a more inclusive understanding of sexuality and consent. Additionally, the fetishization of disabled people, termed “devotees,” adds complexity to the conversation, underlining the importance of respecting autonomy. By shedding light on this underexplored intersection, our research seeks to contribute to a more informed discourse on disability, digital content creation, and online platforms. Ultimately, it highlights the imperative of ongoing exploration and support for disabled content creators within the evolving digital landscape.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-05-01T12:12:07Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241252250
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- Conceptualising queer activist critiques of Pride in the Two-Thirds World:
Queer activism and alternative Pride organising in South Africa, Mumbai,
Hong Kong and Shanghai-
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Authors: Daniel Conway
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This article explores queer critiques of LGBT Pride in the ‘Two-Thirds World’, drawing from ethnographic data, focussing on under-researched contexts and analysing common and divergent themes in queer critiques of Pride globally. Criticisms of corporate involvement and capitalist appropriation of Pride are replicated in the case studies; there is also a complex politics of necessity, precarity, and pragmatism. ‘Mainstream’ Prides reflect and can exacerbate racial and class divisions and be a well-rewarded career path for its organisers. The article analyses the radical politics of ‘alternative’ queer Prides and argues for the importance of continually tracing the ideological impacts of Pride, engaging with the dynamics of global capitalism, and highlighting the struggles of queer grassroots activists.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-04-23T06:16:05Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241248898
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- ‘Straight sex in porn is anything but just straight’:
Exploring queer heteroporn-
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Authors: Ryan Thorneycroft
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Several ideas across pornography studies and queer theory have gestured towards the potential queerness of heteroporn, and this article synthesises this body of scholarship by considering its logics, merits, and implications. It explores the ways in which heteroporn may not be as ‘straight’ as often thought, and identifies queer practices, glimmers, flourishes, residues, creations, and forms of spectatorship that infiltrate the genre. The findings suggest that most ‘queer heteroporn’ occupies a ‘kinda hegemonic, kinda subversive’ space, wherein while this type of pornography contain queer elements, it nevertheless reifies central attributes of heteronormativity via its privileging of sexism and the penetrative economy of sex. Against this backdrop, the article considers the opportunities that these queer interventions might make, and speculates whether these queer traces are inefficacious, or alternatively, worth lingering upon to imagine and build a queer/er future. The overall findings suggest that ‘queer heteroporn’ should be viewed cautiously as a site with which to build further resistance; it may be that certain types of queer heteroporn offer a route through which straight subjects can challenge heteronormativity and embrace a queer/er world. Anchored throughout this contribution is a discussion about the meanings, possibilities, and ethics of queer.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-04-23T02:56:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241248893
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- Viral sexualities, viral songs: Queer musical interventions in the AIDS
crisis in Turkey-
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Authors: Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
The AIDS crisis was a global phenomenon, but the ways individuals responded to the crisis reflected local histories and sociopolitical dynamics. This was particularly true for musical productions. Turkey’s first high-profile HIV patient Murtaza Elgin’s albums demonstrate how queer cultural producers and their allies used stigmatized popular music genres to intervene in the AIDS crisis. The albums show how such collaborative projects become a site for artists diagnosed with HIV to resist criminalization and abjection, build artistic, social, and economic solidarity, mobilize affect for sociopolitical change, and develop a broader critique of homophobia and transphobia.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-04-18T09:16:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241246681
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- Anu’s story: Unpacking the conflation of sex work and sex
trafficking-
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Authors: Menaka Raguparan, Archana Raguparan
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Using I-poems and poetic inquiry, this paper takes a case study approach to discuss the distinctions between consensual sex work and sex trafficking by situating the knowledge and lived experience of a first-generation South Asian Canadian independent indoor sex worker. Through Anu’s words describing her own experiences with both empowering work and instances of exploitation, this paper posits that engaging in the sex trade is legitimate work when workers have agency. Despite the stereotypes perpetuated in anti-trafficking discourse, especially of South Asian women, Anu defies the expected role of a helpless trafficking victim. In highlighting Anu’s story, we aim to provide a complexified and nuanced view of sex trafficking and its common conflation with consensual sex work. This conflation leads to further harm, as can be seen in Anu’s story, when anti-trafficking legal measures do not provide safety nor justice for sex workers who experience exploitation but are not perceived as adhering to controlling narratives of a “marketable victim.”
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-04-18T04:58:57Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241246685
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- ‘An abundance of cakes’: Assigned female at birth queer joy and queer
ethics across generations-
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Authors: Lucy Nicholas, Corrinne T Sullivan, Sarah Callahan
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This paper charts how, in interviewing across generations of assigned female at birth (AFAB) queers in ‘Australia’ about their experiences of lateral violence in LGBTQ+ communities, we found dominant narratives of joy, solidarity and empathy across differences, generations and intersections that demonstrate the ongoing world-making inherent to queer communities. We chart the future-oriented, more utopian themes that came out, in particular around queer (as opposed to LGB) communities and the positive ethics and politics that emerge from and are forged in them.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-04-08T06:42:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241245945
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- Scalar tensions and the representation of the queer Spanish nation-state:
A thematic analysis of Drag Race Spain-
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Authors: Thomas Stieve
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
RuPaul’s Drag Race has globally produced 16 nationally franchised versions of the show. Queer scholarship has studied this franchising of queer culture by applying the model of glocalization, where the U.S. show is adapted to the local queer market in the franchising nation-state. I thematically analyzed the first two seasons of Drag Race Spain (DRS) and viewership in the Països Catalans region of Spain to investigate how three scalar tensions (U.S. Superstructure, Defining Spain, and Exporting Spain) structure queer culture on the show. I concluded that the representation of the nation-state on DRS masks the queer geographic diversity of Spain and the international market’s influence on the country’s representation.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-03-28T08:16:44Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241235766
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- Changing norms of older men’s sexuality in the sexological discourse
during Czechoslovak socialism: Dementia as an interpretative lens to make
sense of sexual expressions in later life-
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Authors: Andrea Bělehradová, Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the development of medical (primarily sexological) knowledge about older men’s sexuality during Czechoslovak socialism. Analysing medical and criminological journals, sexological textbooks and popular-science publications, and inspired by Ian Hacking’s theory of making up people (1995), we track how Czechoslovak experts created new kinds of older people. We show that the founder of Czechoslovak sexology, Josef Hynie, implemented the kind of older men with dementia with pathological sexuality into sexological discourse in 1940. In the following decades, medical experts omitted older men’s sexuality or debated it solely in the context of paedophilic delinquency, thus perpetuating Hynie’s ideas about the pathological sexuality of men with dementia until the second half of the 1970s. We explain how the classification was subsequently replaced by a new kind of healthy older men with active sexuality, which the sexologists made up hand in hand with incorporating new knowledge about sexual delinquents and changing ideas about active ageing. We argue that dementia served for the experts as a tool for defining what could be seen as normal or pathological ageing as well as normal or pathological ageing male sexuality. Finally, we highlight that the liberalisation of ageing male sexuality occurred in socialist Czechoslovakia at approximately the same time as in Western capitalist countries.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-03-27T05:20:26Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241242605
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- Book Review: Bi: Bisexual, pansexual, fluid, and nonbinary youth
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Authors: Corey Tatz
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-03-19T12:36:22Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241240200
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- Book Review: Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the
Twenty-First Century-
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Authors: Canton Winer
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-03-16T12:04:06Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241239118
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- Book review: Pornography, ideology, and the internet: A Japanese adult
video actress in Mainland China-
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Authors: Fikri Yanda, Luna Nuranisa Zakiah
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-03-16T06:41:01Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241240192
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- Erotic capital and erotic dividends
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Authors: Beth Montemurro, Elizabeth Hughes
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Sexualities scholars have developed the idea of erotic capital, that is the characteristics that make someone sexually desirable in specific contexts. While much of the literature focuses on those who either possess or lack erotic capital, and how erotic capital manifests within sexual and dating situations, few studies pursue what happens after erotic capital is used to attract a partner or how individuals feel about others’ interpretations of their erotic capital. Therefore, we advance the literature by developing the concept “erotic dividends,” which we conceptualize as the yield or outcome generated from erotic capital. By exploring erotic dividends, we highlight the importance of recognizing that erotic capital is highly situational/dependent and we complicate assumptions that erotic capital routinely engenders beneficial sexual experiences. To explore erotic dividends, we draw on in-depth interview research on the development of sexual selves with samples of straight-identifying U.S. men and women in their 20s–60s conducted with straight men and women in the United States. We suggest that while some might possess erotic capital, this does not automatically guarantee they will produce benefits, and may ultimately reinforce broader structural inequalities, particularly those related to gender and race. Overall, we argue that the concept of erotic dividends helps to clarify how power, desirability, and inequalities operate within sexual situations.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-03-15T06:16:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241239111
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- Book Review: The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has
Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life-
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Authors: Manning Zhang
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-03-11T04:44:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241238722
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- ‘Send Nudes'’: Teens’ perspectives of education around sexting, an
argument for a balanced approach-
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Authors: Giselle Natassia Woodley, Lelia Green, Carmen Jacques
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This paper explores teens’ perceptions of Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) around sexting (the exchange of sexually explicit imagery). Adopting a ‘sex-positive’ balanced approach to adolescents’ digital expressions of sexuality may be a more beneficial response than censure since fear-based narratives fail to recognise sexting as part of an array of sexual behaviours enacted by teens. Prohibition, rather than educating for safe sexting practices, fails to protect young people. This qualitative study uses thematic analysis of interviews with teens, and social constructionism, to interpret their perspectives thereby contributing teens’ perspectives to debates around adolescent sexting and RSE.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-03-08T04:08:15Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241237675
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- The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer
Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan-
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Authors: Wen Liu, Eva Cheuk-Yin Li
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Hong Kong and Taiwan, two Sinophone societies peripheral to continental China, have divergent colonial pasts and distinct cultures. Yet, their fates have been increasingly intertwined since the rise of China in the global economy. We propose the geopolitics of queer archives to trace minor–minor exchanges of queer knowledge and activism that are neither officially recognized by the state nor mapped into mainstream discussions of international relations. Through a conjunctural analysis of queer scholarship in Hong Kong and Taiwan since the 1980s, we contest the notion of Chineseness in shaping the knowledge of queer sexualities and argue that a wholesale recycling of postcolonial critique on these two societies’ resistance to China risk reproducing US-centrism.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-03-05T08:55:28Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241237695
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- Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic
space of China-
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Authors: Fan Yang, Misha Kavka
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This article sheds light on the landscape of sex-positive podcasts for women in mainland China, with particular emphasis on the podcast Bitch Up (2015–2022). Drawing on the sexualization of popular culture in China since the 1990s, we trace the origins of sex-positive podcasting back to late-night radio to show how the celebration of women’s sexual pleasure in podcast form builds an erotic sonic space that engages with feminist discourses of liberation through pleasure. Through historical and discourse analysis, we argue that Bitch Up sought to establish a new sexual norm that moulds the orgasmic body as female and reconfigures pleasure as an act of women’s self-determination. Refusing to conflate sexual celebration with sex education, Bitch Up discovered and nurtured an appetite for sexual pleasure and expressivity amongst Chinese women that contributes to understanding the complexities of feminism, erotics and politics in contemporary China.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-02-19T07:25:51Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241233563
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- Solving puzzles, playing games: The potential and pitfalls of
entertainment education in teaching about sexuality-
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Authors: Marijke Naezer, Willemijn Krebbekx
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This paper explores the potential of entertainment education (EE) in teaching about sexuality, especially in terms of (1) addressing gaps and instigating an approach that is more (2) youth-centred and (3) norm-critical than conventional sex education. Based on the analysis of five projects in the Netherlands (escape room, educational theatre performance, interactive website, offline game, VR production), we argue that these methods attend to often-overlooked themes. Moreover, they allow for higher levels of student activity and student responsibility: elements of a youth-centred approach. Yet, EE-initiatives are not by themselves more norm-critical, and we observed inequality practices such as heteronormativity and victim-blaming. In our conclusion, we define crucial conditions for realising the potential of EE in teaching about sexuality.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-02-08T04:47:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241232597
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- We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of
LGBT+ rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda-
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Authors: Jakob Svensson, Emil Edenborg, Cecilia Strand
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This article unpacks different meanings of visibility and adds to a more complex and nuanced understanding of visibility and its role in LGBT + activism in Uganda, a widely discussed case of political homophobia. Public visibility has a central, although contested, role here. The study aims to explore how visibility is understood and navigated by local LGBT + activists, unaffiliated people with same-sex desires, as well as international development partners. Interviews conducted in Kampala from December 2021–January 2022 reveal different and complex narratives surrounding visibility. Local unaffiliated individuals and activists agreed on the importance of making the LGBT + rights struggle more visible. This, however, did not translate into a wish to “come out” themselves. International development actors expressed a need for caution regarding their own visibility, mindful that explicit and visual support may generate accusations of neo-imperialism.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-02-06T11:56:51Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241232556
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- Domesticity and the construction of intimacy: Producing the erotic body
and self within ‘the love nest’-
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Authors: Liza Tsaliki, Despina Chronaki
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Following recent academic attention on the neoliebral self, in this article, we situate the construction of the sexual self and body as part of an ongoing, neoliberal ‘aesthetic entrepreneurship’ and argue that people draw on various material and cultural resources in order to put these entrepreneurial selves together. Drawing on 40 open-ended interviews with young Greek adults aged between 20 and 33, conducted between 2018 and 2019, we explore the cultural and material resources people use in order to create the intimate self. We situate our work within an analytical framework about the ‘aesthetic labour’ people invest themselves into within neoliberalism and argue that such work contributes to the growing body of work on self-surveillance and the articulation of an ethical self.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-02-02T03:54:13Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241230754
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- Erotic habitus and collapsed masculinity in male-dominated spaces: The
case of the no Fap relapse spaces-
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Authors: Steven Dashiell, Alexis Rowland
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This paper examines how men in online discourses are constrained by sexual ideals, and use curated discourses in an effort to empower their social selves. Drawing from Adam Green’s work, we speculate that an erotic habitus surrounding sexual ideas allows men who see themselves besieged by porn and masturbation addiction to craft specific male-oriented language. In this paper, we demonstrate how men operationalize this erotic habitus through discursive behaviors. We use thematic analysis to analyze the forum posts of men in the No Fap community, a worldwide association of men who have sworn off masturbation (n = 610). Particularly, we consider how the men articulate an antagonistic relationship with online pornography, and use an erotic habitus framed in language to note their reaction to perceived adversaries and their own strength to remain abstinent, devoid of humor, or sarcasm. These discourses have underlying elements of a muted relationship with patriarchal ideals, consistent with a collapsed masculinity. However, through the erasure of topics from these conversations, a heterosexist and women-absent conversation still implies a male-centric power.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-02-01T06:12:51Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241230748
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- Book Review: Sexuality and the rise of China: The post-1990s Gay
generation in Hong Kong-
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Authors: Drew Trinidad
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-01-31T02:38:02Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241230806
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- Book Review: Pornography: A philosophical introduction
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Authors: Eligiusz Lelo
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-01-23T07:37:12Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241229323
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- ‘Abstinence is panacea’: Reconstructing the ideal of Chinese
masculinity through online community-
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Authors: Chong Liu, Qiqi Huang
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
This article discusses the experience of Chinese young men relating to sexual abstinence through the Abstinence Bar (jiese ba 戒色吧) – an online community, with over six million members, dedicated to preaching the benefits of sexual abstinence – to identify how it represents a problematic strategy of ‘doing gender’ in post-socialist China. Based on a critical discourse analysis of the posts in the Abstinence Bar, we argue that the prosperity of the Abstinence Bar has re-stabilized the hegemony of dominant masculinities through cultural changes which intersect with individualism and nationalism. Consequently, it is essential to advocate evidence-based sexuality education among Chinese young people.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-01-19T06:03:14Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241228114
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- The unspeakable queerness in Romania’s communist period: Lesbian and
queer accounts beyond gay men’s experiences-
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Authors: Ramona Dima
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Informed by interviews with queer women, nonbinary persons, and a trans man, this article aims to fill a major gap in the Southeastern European sexuality studies. It does that by depicting and analyzing several microhistories from communism (1947–1989) and from the early 1990s Romania. The 1990s were also marked by the communist legacy and same-sex relationships continued to be criminalized until 2001. Since gay men’s accounts are much more represented in the public space and in the incipient literature on queerness in Romania, the article offers an alternative view beyond this tendency, by bringing forth the particularities and experiences of cisgender women and trans persons and their day-to-day lives within the patriarchal and homophobic society. The article argues that during communism matters of queerness were known, although rarely discussed, and that the accounts of queer women and trans persons were not absent but neglected. Another objective is to offer explanations for the lack of these marginal (ized) accounts in the incipient gender and queer studies literature on Romania.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-01-19T03:49:06Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241228110
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- Book Review: Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur'an: Retrieving Lost
Voices on Gender-
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Authors: Muhammad Misbah
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-01-17T01:51:33Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241228111
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- Unpacking categorizations in researching GBTIQ+ parents
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Authors: Carole Ammann
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
In this article, based on anthropological research conducted in the Netherlands and Switzerland, I show the diversity and multi-faceted nature of GBTIQ+ (gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, and queer) parenting. In contrast to recent research on GBTIQ+ parents, which often distinguishes between parents who have children through a (former) heterosexual encounter, adoption, fostering, surrogacy, co-parenting, or trans pregnancy, I deliberately chose not to study just one form of family formation. Drawing on 37 biographical, narrative, and thematic interviews and two group discussions with GBTIQ+ parents, I adopt a processual understanding of parenting that takes into account its fluidity and transformations over the life course. I argue that we should pay attention to how both the unique ways of forming and being a GBTIQ+ family, and common notions of imagining and doing family, intermingle in practice. Furthermore, I stress the importance of taking into account the intersecting differences within the category of GBTIQ+ parents, and accordingly, we should critically analyze which factors are relevant to an individual in a particular time and space.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-01-16T01:51:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607241228113
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- Book Review: Women resisting sexual violence and the egyptian revolution:
Arab feminist testimonies-
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Authors: Maria Holt
Abstract: Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Sexualities
PubDate: 2024-01-09T03:17:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/13634607221122341
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