Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This article examines the possibilities and pitfalls of using Big Data to address sexual and reproductive health concerns as related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), paying particular attention to contextual dif…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This paper uses George Herbert Mead’s theory on time and the self in an analysis of qualitative interviews with sex sellers in Denmark. We show how exit from prostitution is associated with a gradual change of participants’…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. The author weaves her favorite quotes from Ken Plummer’s celebrated book, Telling Sexual Stories with her own voice to offer a modest tribute and express her gratitude to him. In this exercise of creative writing, she celeb…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This special issue pays tribute to and critically engages with the work of Ken Plummer, the founder of this journal. A distinguished sociologist who taught at the University of Essex for thirty years, Ken died last November…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. A conversation about the different generational experiences of LGBT academics and the changing status of sexuality and queer studies. Ken Plummer, Arlene Stein and Travis Kong, longtime colleagues and sociologists of sexual…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. The most significant and lasting contributions of Ken Plummer to the sociology of sexuality have been his work on sexual storytelling. Best represented in Plummer’s 1995 book Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This article analyzes the personal writings of asexual people for whom their identity is connected to disability, illness, or trauma. Asexuality is typically understood as an inherent sexual orientation that is neither caus…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. In recent decades, BDSM as a form of power exchange has gained partial recognition and social inclusion in the public sphere. The inclusive process comes with the price of excluding concrete behaviors and thought patterns t…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. In recent decades, BDSM as a form of power exchange has gained partial recognition and social inclusion in the public sphere. The inclusive process comes with the price of excluding concrete behaviors and thought patterns t…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Ken Plummer’s life work has had a major impact on the development of the sociology of sexuality. While being firmly rooted in and committed to the traditions of pragmatism and symbolic interactionism – which chimes nicely w…