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Strategies of sexual refusal in effervescent nightlife settings: A study of Spanish university students Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Irantzu Recalde-Esnoz, Sébastien Tutenges, Héctor Del Castillo
A growing body of studies focuses on sexual harassment and violence in nightlife venues, primarily as it affects adolescent and adult women. In these settings, the boundary between flirtation and unwanted sexual attention easily blurs. This study examines how young women reject such attention. It draws on in-depth interviews with 53 Spanish undergraduates aged 18 to 25 from a Madrid public university
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“The gay clubs are it”: An analysis of straight women’s motivations for frequenting gay bars Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-24 Kailey P Peckford
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
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“Porn is blunt […] I had way more LGBTQ+ friendly education through porn”: The experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals with online pornography Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Isabelle Marie Flory, Eran Shor
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
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Black queer femme and non-binary individuals’ polyamory: An act of liberation Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Manijeh Badiee, Evita Sawyers
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
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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 Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Thomas Baudinette, Kelsey E Scholes
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
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Still here, still queer? Queer lives and subjectivities in dementia care Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Linn J Sandberg, Anna Siverskog
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
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“Were in this together” - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants: Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Christopher Pullen, Ieuan Franklin
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
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Cyber toy stories: The broken promises and broken parts of interactive sex toys Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Ekat Osipova, Azadeh Badieijaryani, Katta Spiel
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
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Lingering longer: Performance, queer of color joy, and Baltimore’s VERSION Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Michael Tristano
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
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Mainstreaming queerness in Thai boys’ love narratives: Impact on gay identity perceptions in Bangkok’s society Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Ekathep Michaels, Eakachat Joneurairatana, Veerawat Sirivesmas
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
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Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art of Helen Chadwick Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Amber Husain
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
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Book review: AIDS & Representation: Queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Linda Roland Danil
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Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Hazuki Kaneko, Diana Khor
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
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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 Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Alamgir Alamgir, Emily Gray, Peter Kelly, Seth Brown
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
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Chemsex as wild self-care Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Simon Clay
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
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Phallic metaphors and metonyms: Emerging meanings of Viagra and masculinity in news media Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Mie Birk Jensen
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
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Strategies of passing: Hypervisible bodies, disrespectable affinities, and Syrian trans refugees in Lebanon Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Nisrine Chaer
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
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Both because of and in spite of: Towards the reclamation of queercrip joy Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Megan Ingram, Kai Jacobsen
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
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A case of chronic survivance: Decolonizing the epidemiology of HIV Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Ivan Bujan
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
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‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Fran Amery
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
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Reimagining home and responsibility: The case of queer Indonesian Muslims Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Diego Garcia Rodriguez
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
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Resisting and transgressing cisheteronormativity at home: LGBT+ youths’ active strategies Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Júlia Pascual-Bordas
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+
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Personality differences between individuals involved in polyamorous and monogamous relationships Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Paulina Banaszkiewicz
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
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Pleasures of the city. An essay in memory of the Danish sociologist Henning Bech Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Morten Emmerik Wøldike, Poul Poder
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
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Disabled content creators on OnlyFans: Empowerment, representation, and precarity Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Alan Santinele Martino, Eleni Moumos, Rachell Trung
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
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‘Straight sex in porn is anything but just straight’: Exploring queer heteroporn Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Ryan Thorneycroft
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
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Anu’s story: Unpacking the conflation of sex work and sex trafficking Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Menaka Raguparan, Archana Raguparan
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
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Viral sexualities, viral songs: Queer musical interventions in the AIDS crisis in Turkey Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
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
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‘An abundance of cakes’: Assigned female at birth queer joy and queer ethics across generations Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Lucy Nicholas, Corrinne T Sullivan, Sarah Callahan
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
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Scalar tensions and the representation of the queer Spanish nation-state: A thematic analysis of Drag Race Spain Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Thomas Stieve
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
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Erotic capital and erotic dividends Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Beth Montemurro, Elizabeth Hughes
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
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Book Review: The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Manning Zhang
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‘Send Nudes?’: Teens’ perspectives of education around sexting, an argument for a balanced approach Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Giselle Natassia Woodley, Lelia Green, Carmen Jacques
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
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Solving puzzles, playing games: The potential and pitfalls of entertainment education in teaching about sexuality Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Marijke Naezer, Willemijn Krebbekx
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)
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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 Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jakob Svensson, Emil Edenborg, Cecilia Strand
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
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Domesticity and the construction of intimacy: Producing the erotic body and self within ‘the love nest’ Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Liza Tsaliki, Despina Chronaki
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
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Erotic habitus and collapsed masculinity in male-dominated spaces: The case of the no Fap relapse spaces Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Steven Dashiell, Alexis Rowland
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
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Unpacking categorizations in researching GBTIQ+ parents Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Carole Ammann
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
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‘Looking back, I don’t quite recognise myself’: Narratives of the past in prostitution Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Theresa Dyrvig Henriksen, Margaretha Järvinen
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 gradu...
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Gratitude to Ken Plummer Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Gloria González-López
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 c...
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Ken Plummer’s contributions to the study of sexualities and beyond Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Travis SK Kong, Arlene Stein
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 yea...
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“A very risky queer thing to do”: In conversation with Ken Plummer Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Arlene Stein, Travis S. K. Kong
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 ...
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Homo narrans: A transdisciplinary reading of Ken Plummer’s narrative sociology Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Rebecca Babirye, James Farrer
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...
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Contested intersections: Asexuality and disability, illness, or trauma Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Anna Kurowicka
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 orient...
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BDSM and total power exchange: Between inclusion and exclusion Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Ofer Parchev
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 behavi...
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Journeying with Ken Plummer through radical constructionism, critical humanism and intimate counterpublics Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Christian Klesse
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 interactioni...
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Young women’s sexual agency, relationality, and vulnerability: The Israeli case study of “attacking” Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Rachel Levi Herz, Miri Rozmarin
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 vul...
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Playing with straight lines and queer times: Children engaging with romantic love within and beyond heteronormative temporalities Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Lena Sotevik
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 et...
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An “Academic Homosexual”: Ken Plummer and the National Deviancy Conference Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Janice M Irvine
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 ...
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Appreciation, admiration and affection Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Jeff Hearn
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 col...
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Ken Plummer: What it is to be human Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Jeffrey Weeks
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...
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Hypercategorization and hypersexualization: How webcam platforms organize performers and performances Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Hanne M Stegeman, Olav Velthuis, Emilija Jokubauskaitė, Thomas Poell
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 c...
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Fangirling and a sociology of fucking Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 RF Plante
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 Br...
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Developing parenthood through giving birth to a dead child – bereaved lesbian mothers’ maternity care experiences in Scandinavia Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Idun Røseth, Dorte Hvidtjørn, Bente Dahl
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 qu...
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Ken Plummer Memorial Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Jodi O’Brien
Jodi O'Brien remembers Ken Plummer.
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Queer legibility and the refugee status determination process Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Lotte Wolff, Brandy Cochrane
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 cr...
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The Black pill pipeline: A process-tracing analysis of the Incel’s continuum of violent radicalization Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Robert Green, Kurt Fowler, Allan Palombi
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...
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Queerly departed: Queer viral socialities and Caribbean migrant desires Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 David AB Murray
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 status...
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Mobile intimacies? Uncertainty, ambivalence and fluidity in the intimate practices of dating app users in Germany and the UK Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Andrea Newerla, Jenny van Hooff
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 ...
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Interactions and intersections Sexualities (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Diane Richardson
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 ...