Jessie V Ford

Biographic Data

ID4260718
NAMEJessie V Ford
GIVEN NAMESJessie V
FAMILY NAMEFord
SIGNATUREFORD J V
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Decolonising sexual pleasure

    Open AccessMadison Moore, Laura Gemmell-Sinnott et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2026

    This paper seeks to challenge the dominance of Global North frameworks in international work on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), arguing that decolonising this work requires centring Global South knowledge, lived experience, and culturally grounded understandings of sexuality, including sexual pleasure. Decolonisation is here understood as dismantling inequitable power relations, shifting epistemic authority away from Global Nort…

  • Forced marriage, divorce, and the ecology of marital self-determination

    Open AccessJennifer S Hirsch, Gloria Fortuna et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2026

    Research with Orthodox (Charedi) Jews illustrates barriers to divorce as a type of forced marriage • These barriers span the ecological model, from the intrapsychic to policy and history levels • Constrained access to divorce is not captured by current global or US forced marriage definitions

  • Navigating realities

    Open AccessMargot E Balliet, John Vincent Ford et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2025

    The rising prevalence of internet pornography consumption among adolescents has created a need for proactive approaches to pornography literacy within sex education. This article aims to both introduce the “Navigating Realities” curriculum and advocate for an expanded approach to pornography literacy education that integrates comprehensive media literacy, critical analysis, and a sex-positive framework. This evidence-informed curriculum was devel…

  • Prevent with Pleasure

    Open AccessLuke Muschialli, John Vincent Ford et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Previous research suggests integrating pleasure into HIV prevention programming improves health outcomes. There are no existing reviews on how exactly pleasure is used within HIV public communications campaigns (PCCs). This manuscript investigates: (1) how HIV PCCs operationalise pleasure; and (2) the efficacy of pleasure-based HIV PCCs. EMBASE, Web of Science Core Collection and PsycINFO were searched for articles that present pleasure-based HIV…

  • Sexual health indicators for the United States

    Open AccessJohn Vincent Ford, Jessie V Ford et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction: Today, we are facing increased and continued adverse sexual health outcomes in the United States, including high post-COVID-19 pandemic rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). For the past 20 years, there have been calls for a national health strategy and a more comprehensive sexual health approach to address the myriad of persistent sexual health problems in this country. Employing a sexual health approach requires shiftin…

  • Orgasm and Faking Orgasm

    John Vincent Ford, Jessie V Ford et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sex Research2022References: 12

    This article examines the prevalence and correlates of orgasm and faking orgasm in the last year among a representative sample of Chinese men and women. Existing research on orgasm in China has largely been confined to medical research. To our knowledge, no published studies have examined faking orgasm in a Chinese context. These data come from the Chinese Health and Family Life Survey (CHFLS) conducted in 1999 and 2000. We used multivariable log…

  • Using a Daily Diary Approach to Examine Substance Use and Negative Sexual Experiences Among College Students

    Open AccessJohn Vincent Ford, Jessie V Ford et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2021

  • Gender Variance and Sexual Orientation Among Male Spirit Mediums in Myanmar

    Open AccessEli Coleman, Mariette Pathy Allen et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2018References: 14