Asexuality is increasingly understood as a heterogeneous spectrum, yet research has rarely examined how multiple sexuality-related dimensions cluster within ace-spectrum (i.e. asexual-spectrum) pop...

Digital media are central to how adolescents and young adults encounter information about sexuality, intimacy, and relationships. Pornography and other sexually explicit media (SEM), as well as dee...

A Comparative Investigation of the Post-war Hope in Revolutionary Sexuality

Parents play a central role in supporting children experiencing gender dysphoria and in navigating decisions regarding social and medical transition. Despite this, parental perspectives remain unde...

Drawing on the intellectual legacy of Shannon Bell, I argue that pornography has been politically retooled as a capacious moral category through which non-normative gender and sexuality are rendere...

Sexuality education in primary schools remains a site of socio-political contestation, yet empirical insight into children's own questions and first-person perspectives is scarce. This study addresses...

On 7 September, 2026, we learned about the sad passing of Jay Wiseman, the author of arguably the best known book on BDSM in the world - SM 101: A Realistic Introduction. He will be much missed by tho...

Objectives: This study explores how individuals construct and narrate scenarios they find sexually desirable. We do this by focusing on the broader cultural and media-informed discourses, and reper...

Archives of Sexual Behavior -

It is startling to realize how quickly and thoroughly the value of diversity, until a few decades ago a value largely confined to the aesthetic and organic realms, has acquired deep political and mora...

This commentary introduces the methodological diversity represented in this special issue on the cultural psychology of sexuality. Situated at the intersection of psychology, cultural studies, and ...

Sexual practices commonly known as “rough sex” have become prevalent among adolescents and people in the first few decades of adulthood. Some (e.g. sexual “choking” and smothering) pose serious hea...

Long-distance virtual romantic relationships are an emerging phenomenon that, due to the absence of physical presence and reliance on digital interfaces, involve complex psychological challenges. This...

This essay discusses the queer colonial archive of the German settler Kurt Falk who lived in Namibia and Angola in the early twentieth century. It reconstructs Falk’s unknown, elusive biography and...

The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditi...

Contemporary debates about consent have increasingly shaped legal, public, and educational discourses surrounding sex, sexual violence, and sexual ethics. Against this backdrop, online audiovisual ...

The aim of this study was to describe characteristics of professional education programs in clinical sexology, including organizers, academic affiliations, target groups, program levels, admission ...

This qualitative study explored how staff members in adapted schools experience Sexuality, Consent and Relationships Education following Sweden’s recent curriculum reform. Ten semi-structured inter...

Drawing on a qualitative investigation of young adults’ intimate lives in Montreal, Paris, and New York, this article defines romantic love as a feeling embedded in a narrative. This narrative can not...

Since its rediscovery in the early 1990s, the case of Elisa and Marcela – two Galician schoolteachers legally married in 1901 Spain – has captivated audiences and artists alike. The scheme that suc...

Although qualitative research on dyspareunia has increased in recent years, most studies have focused on women’s individual experiences or on specific difficulties within the couple, leaving underexpl...

Arthur Greeves (1895–1966) was the world-famous Oxford scholar and author C.S. Lewis’s (1898–1963) lifelong gay best friend. The article offers the first sustained reconstruction of Greeves’s sexua...

The twenty-first century has been a time of considerable change across the globe in cultural understandings and expressions of sexuality. This introduction describes the impetus behind the special ...

A compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss--how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the reality One of the most prevalent myths about human pre...

The development of feminism in Spain was shaped not only by political and social movements, but also by the dissemination and production of scientific knowledge

This article offers a metatheoretical analysis of contemporary research on sexology from and beyond the late nineteenth century. We draw attention to the use of (pseudo)medical photography in this sch...

This chapter places Irene Clyde’s (1869–1954) feminist works in dialogue with other feminist writings in Anglophone literary modernism. Clyde was a trans

El texto pondera el legado intelectual de Efigenio Amezúa y destaca varios hitos fundamentales en la consolidación de la sexología como una disciplina con episteme propia. Se detalla cómo Amezúa propu...

There is relatively limited information on why women use pornography, what they expect from it, and the emotions they experience after use. Conflicting findings have been reported about the associa...

Despite calls for intersectional approaches in sexuality research, global Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) sexualities remain underrepresented and narrowly framed in psychological lit...

In this paper, we present our rigorous, collaborative approach to attaining credibility, confirmability and dependability in phenomenological research. Within sexology, most studies are based in ex...

Albert Moll (1862–1939) was a Berlin psychiatrist and neurologist whose work helped establish psychotherapy, sexology, and medical ethics as scientific disciplines. In Andreas-Holger Maehle’s first sc...

'Offers fascinating insights into women's worlds and desires in Greco-Roman antiquity and beyond.' Emily Hauser, Sunday Times bestselling author of Mythica ...

Meet the women throughout history who, quite literally, came before us. From the host of award-winning History Hit podcast Betwixt the Sheets.. There is a common misconception that before modern day...

Contemporary UK policy and educational responses to pornography are largely organized around risk, harm, and prevention. Drawing on the UK Independent Pornography Review, this article examines how ...

Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century European History - Unwilling To Know

This volume provides background texts for the early modern origins of pornography including its philosophic and literary foundations. By the early

A revelatory history of sex, gender, and science from Linnaeus to DarwinWhat did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In print, their descriptions of ...

How did trans people in 1970s Spain organise and campaign for their rights? Iago Mora explores this hidden piece of trans history.

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Sexual Health presents results from a survey on professional education in clinical sexology conducted by the WAS Committee for Professional Educat...

Ce travail consiste en une réflexion épistémologique à propos des histoires minoritaires à l’aide du concept d’injustice épistémique. Le silence de l’histoire (en tant que discipline comme en tant que...