Volume 11, 2025
Volume 11, Issue 1, April 2025
Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Cynthia Graham, Phillip Hammack, Liam Wignall
- Brief Description: This editorial, originally published in The Journal of Sex Research and reprinted here by permission, provides a clear statement from leading sexuality and gender researchers on the necessity for continuing and supporting said research and an unwillingness to remove these and related terms from publications.
A Journey to Positive Sexuality: Exploring Sexual Health Conceptualization, Communication, and Practices Among Black Young Adult Couples
Jasmine Temple, Luke Dula, Brittany Kimmer, Rahaf Bajdough, Erika Monatanaro
- Brief Description: Through interviews of young Black couples, the researchers explore how sexual health is conceptualized and communicated, offering insights to health professionals and future positive sexuality research.
- Keywords: positive sexuality, sexual health, dyadic interviews, qualitative research
“Oh, Are You Just Kinky in Bed?”: Tying Together the Personal, Interpersonal, and Sociocultural Dimensions of BDSM
Veronica Kim, Kaura Siracusa, Lea Silvert, Anthea Chan, Melanie E. Brewster
- Brief Description: An analysis through the lens of ecological theory, exploring the functions of BDSM for some individuals, and how this identity can interesect with other identities and social structures.
- Keywords: BDSM, kink, stigma, mental health, relationships, power analysis, community, intersectionality, ecological theory
The Freedom Not to be Sexual: Asexuality, Compulsory Sexuality, and Sex Positivity
Canton Winer
- Brief Description: A critique of sex positive frameworks and how they may be inadvertently reproducing compulsory sexuality.
- Keywords: asexuality, sex positivity, compulsory sexuality, purity culture
Response to "The Freedom Not to be Sexual: Asexuality, Compulsory Sexuality, and Sex Positivity"
Jeremy Thomas, DJ Williams, Emily E. Prior
- Brief Description: A response to the previous article from some of the authors of the positive sexuality model used by this journal.
Volume 11, Issue 2, October 2025
Celebrating the Lives and Strategies of Black Women Digital Erotic Cultural Producers
Shawna Shipley-Gates
- Brief Description: Surveys and interviews are used to investigate the lives and strategies of Black women digital erotic producers to support their audiences and Black women's sexual health.
- Keywords: Black feminisms, culture, erotic, sexuality, digital spaces, resistance
Eroticism Pushed to its Peak: Lessons from Practitioners of Alternative Sexual Practices
Hanif Summers, Alexandra M. Zidenberg
- Brief Description: A literature review focused on relationship dynamics and communication skills among people who practice BDSM. Implications for clinical practice are discussed.
- Keywords: BDSM, sexual negotiations, power dynamics, relationship satisfaction, stigma
Positive Sexuality via Correctional Support in Offender Re-Entry: An Autoethnographic Example
Brad Samuelson, D J Williams
- Brief Description: Through autoethnography, positive sexuality and convict criminology is applied to the correctional supervision experiences of the first author.
- Keywords: autoethnography, convict criminology, offender re-entry, sex-positive criminology, sexual abuse, substance abuse
Phases of (After)Care: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of How Fist-Fuckers Understand Aftercare
Jarred H. Martin
- Brief Description: Using Tronto's phases of care framework, the aftercare experiences of cisgender gay men who engage in fisting are analyzed.
- Keywords: aftercare, fisting, kink, care, phases of care
Having a Right to Exist: Looking Online Sexuality from the Perspective of Sexual Rights
Maria Vihlman
- Brief Description: Through the lens of a Finnish adult image gallery and social networking site, the study examines the importance of sexual digital spaces.
- Keywords: sexual rights, digital sexuality, positive sexuality, sexual social media
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