The Chadwick Lab
Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality

Publications

Here is a list of Dr. Sara Chadwick’s latest publications:

  • Gormezano, A.M., Chadwick, S.B., & van Anders, S.M. (2025). Eye contact in porn: Multifaceted responses to direct gaze in brief sexually explicit videos among heterosexual cisgender men. Media Psychology, 28(3), 362-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2024.2371603
  • Son, E.J., Wilkinson, L.E., Mathi, L.V.K., Harris, E.A., Ibrahim, A., Beischel, W.J., Chadwick, S.B., Miller, J. & van Anders, S.M. (2025). Causal attributions of low sexual desire in women partnered with men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 54(1), 157-174. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-024-02963-w
  • Chadwick, S.B., Woerner, J., & Schrimshaw, E.W. (2024). Risk for experiencing psychological and sexual abuse on-and offline: A comparison of bisexual, gay/lesbian, and heterosexual women and men. American Journal of Epidemiology, 193(12), 1741-1749. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae126
  • Chadwick, S.B. (2024). The prioritization of women’s orgasms during heterosex: A feminist critical review of the implications for women’s sexual liberation. The Journal of Sex Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2024.2399153
  • Chadwick, S.B., Schuchat, D., Son, E.J., & van Anders, S.M. (2024). Gendered failures and achievements in women’s experiences of men’s orgasms. Sex Roles. https://doi: 10.1007/s11199-024-01482-1
  • Chadwick, S.B., & van Anders, S.M. (2022). Orgasm Coercion: Overlaps between pressuring someone to orgasm and sexual coercion. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 633-651. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02156-9
  • Chadwick, S.B. & van Anders, S.M. (2022). What happens when people refuse to go along with orgasm coercion? An assessment of refusal strategies, perpetrators’ subsequent reactions, and relationship and psychological outcomes. Psychology & Sexuality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2022.2060130
  • Chadwick, S.B. & van Anders, S.M. (2022). Orgasm coercion and its associations with negative relationship and psychological outcomes among cisgender women, cisgender men, and gender/sex minorities. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 653-671. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02162-x
  • van Anders, S.M., Herbenick, D., Brotto, L.A., Harris, E.A., & Chadwick, S.B. (2022). The heteronormativity theory of low sexual desire in women partnered with men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 391-415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02100-x
  • Chadwick, S.B., Francisco, M. & van Anders, S.M. (2019). When orgasms do not equal pleasure: Accounts of “bad” orgasm experiences during consensual sexual encounters. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 2435-2459. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01527-7
  • Chadwick, S.B., Raisanen, J.C., Goldey, K.L., & van Anders, S.M. (2018). Strategizing to make pornography worthwhile: A qualitative exploration of women’s agentic strategies with sexual media. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47(6), 1853-1868. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1174-y
  • Chadwick, S.B. & van Anders, S.M. (2017). Do women’s orgasms function as a masculinity achievement for men? Journal of Sex Research, 54(9), 1141-1152. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2017.1283484