Sexualities
Mary Robertson, Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity
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‘It’s nice to be appreciated’: Understanding heterosexual men’s engagements with sexting and sharing Dick Pics
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This paper explores heterosexual men’s experiences of sexting with a primary focus on how, when and why men send sexually explicit photos to women. Previous research has focused either on gay and bisexual men’s experiences …
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Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in Transnational Europe
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Ageing/body/sex/work – Migrant women’s narratives of intimacy and ageing in commercial sex and elder care work
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This article analyses how sex and elder-care workers negotiate intimacy and ageing in their work. We find surprising similarities between sex and care work that derive from the ways in which Eastern European migrant women a…
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Soundtracks of human mimetic sexual play: The case of East Asian regional sexual vernacular
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This article presents and discusses the sonic aspects of human sexual play, focusing on soundtracks and sonic scripts related to sexual “faking”. The author’s ethnographic archives are used to exemplify these complicated mi…
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The gay scientist: Kane Race on the unexpected possibilities of experimental intimacies
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. In this interview with Jamie Hakim, Kane Race talks about his most recent monograph The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments With the Problem of HIV (2018). In The Gay Science, he explores how practices of sex and intimacy bet…
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Beyond the crazy ex-girlfriend: Drawing the contours of a radical vulnerability
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. In this article, I reflect on the process of understanding and my strategies of reporting in the context of a three-year ethnographic study on non-monogamous sex and relationships in Belgium, which included interviews and p…
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The pornographic mirror: Sexual performances and sexual personas in academia
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This article makes a case for sex-positive research and pedagogy that acknowledges and hence reflects on the researcher’s use of a “pornographic mirror,” a critical and consensual engagement with erotic and pornographic (se…
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Performing heterosexual attraction in a bisexual interview: A methodological account of gendered power
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. The article describes the specific gender and sexuality relations that emerged in a life story interview I conducted with a gay-identified man who desires both women and men. I provide a detailed description not only of the…