Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Sexual ambivalence—sex that is simultaneously wanted and unwanted—is not unusual in young women’s experiences with heterosex. Elucidating how gender and sexuality contribute to ambivalence is important for understanding how…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This article offers a critical examination of Jehovah’s Witnesses’ positionality on homosexuality. After making the case for engaging with memoir literature, the article analyses two narratives that depict the experiences o…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This study involves an analysis and rethinking of sex workers’ perceptions of stigma, using Goffman’s theory of stigma management contrasted with Thirft’s non-representational theory (NRT). We begin with a discussion of sex…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. We examine the border between sexuality and reproduction from the perspective of pre-pubescent children from two primary schools in Spain, a country where childhood is seen as asexual. We conducted 14 focus groups with chil…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. How can we understand queer kinship as it is experienced in the present, without inadvertently fixing its meaning, ignoring the (in)flexibility of memory, or failing to capture its continued evolution? We argue that through…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Following in-depth interviews with users and my own experiences as an adult content creator, this study explores authenticity on Onlyfans. I develop the term negotiated authenticity to explain the process whereby subscriber…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. While scholars have examined female viewership of pornography, the phenomenon of heterosexual women watching lesbian pornography has received little attention. Drawing on statistical data from pornographic websites, article…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. It is widely recognised that queer research has historically favoured major metropolitan centres. This has led to now well-established literatures on queer lives in smaller cities, towns and rural areas in Western contexts….
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. The literature of neopaganism often evokes an indigenous medieval past to resist social and religious convention and assert a queer identity in the present. Using theories of untranslatability, this article shows how a medi…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This paper focuses on ignorance within the phenomenon of women who experience female ejaculation. Based on ethnographic research, I show how the experience of the phenomenon in the absence of propositional knowledge about i…