Other Writing

Selected Articles

"Rethinking Risk, Culture, and Intervention in Collective Sex Environments" (2018). Archives of Sexual Behavior.

"Group Sex as Play Rules and Transgression in Shared Non-monogamy." (2016) with Harviainen, J. Tuomas. Games and Culture.  

"Not Gay But Not Homophobic:  Male Sexuality and Homophobia in the Lifestyle."  (2008)  Sexualities 11(4):  435-456. 

“Thinking Critically About Strip Club Research.”  (2007)  Sexualities 10(4):  501-517.

“Agency.”  (2006)  Anthropological Theory 6(3):  281-301.  

“Exploring the Motivations and Fantasies of Strip Club Customers in Relation to Legal Regulations.”  (2005)  Archives of Sexual Behavior 34(5):  487-504.

“Attempts at a Feminist and Interdisciplinary Conversation about Strip Clubs.”  (2005) with Danielle Egan.  Deviant Behavior 26(4):  297-320.  

“Just Trying to Relax:  Masculinity, Masculinizing Practices, and Strip Club Regulars”  (2003) The Journal of Sex Research. 

“The Management of Hunger:  Using Fiction in Writing Anthropology.”  (2000)  Qualitative Inquiry 6(4).  

“The Production of Identity and the Negotiation of Intimacy in a Gentleman’s Club” (1998) Sexualities.  

Selected Book Chapters

“Observational Methods in the Study of Human Sexuality.”  (2015).  In DeLamater, John and Rebecca Plante (eds).  Handbook of Sexualities.  Springer. 

“Deconstructing Monogamy:  Boundaries, Identities, and Fluidities Across Relationships” with John DeLamater (2009)  in Understanding Non-Monogamies (edited by Barker & Landridge)  

“Gender and Space in Strip Clubs” with Michelle Carnes (2009) in Sex for Sale (edited by Ronald Weitzer) 

“Playcouples in Paradise:  Touristic Sexuality and Lifestyle Travel” (2008) (on swinging in the US) in Love and Globalization (edited by Padilla, Hirsch, et al)

Primetime Harem Fantasies:  Marriage, Monogamy, and a bit of Feminist Fan-fiction on ABC’s “The Bachelor” (2007) in Third Wave Feminism and Television (edited by M.L. Johnson)

“Keeping Her Off the Pole:  Creating Sexual Value in a Secular Society.” (2006).   In Flesh for Fantasy:  Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance (edited by R. Danielle Egan, K. Frank, and M. Lisa Johnson).  

“Body Talk:  Revelations of Self and Body in Contemporary Strip Clubs” (2005) in Dirt, Undress and Difference (edited by A. Masquelier) 

“Stripping, Starving, and the Politics of Pleasure” (2002) in Jane Sexes It Up (edited by M.L. Johnson)

Frank’s academic writing has been excerpted in American Ethnography, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and numerous text books. 

Selected Fiction and Essays

"Escapes" (2001) from Feminist Review 

"Leaving the Stage" from Spread Magazine, Issue 33 

"Husbands" (1999) from Black Sheets, volume 14