The selected publications below are those most relevant to polyamory, BDSM, and the law.
2021 Sheff, Elisabeth. Kinky Sex Gone Wrong: Legal Prosecutions Concerning Consent, Age Play, and Death via BDSM. Archives of sexual behavior, 1-11.
2021 Sheff, Elisabeth, Rhoten, Kimberly, & Lane, Jonathan. A Whole Village: Polyamorous Families and the Best Interests of the Child Standard. Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, 31, 287.
2021 Rhoten, Kimberly, Sheff, Elisabeth, and Lane, Jonathan. US Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: the limits of a sexual rights strategy for polyamorous parents. Sexualities, 13634607211061485.
2020 Sheff, Elisabeth. Polyamory Is Deviant–But Not for the Reasons You May Think. Deviant Behavior, 41(7), 882-892.
2020 Pallotta-Chiarolli, Maria, Sheff, Elisabeth, and Mountford, Ruby. Polyamorous Parenting in Contemporary Research: Developments and Future Directions. In LGBTQ-Parent Families (pp. 171-183). Springer, Cham.
2016 Sheff, Elisabeth. “Resilient Polyamorous Families” in in Critical & Experimental: Dimensions in Gender and Sexual Diversity (pgs. 257-280). Edited by Karian, Previn. Eastleigh, UK: Resonance Publications
2016 Kieran, Rachel, and Sheff, Elisabeth. “Distinguishing Between Intimate Partner Violence and BDSM/Kinky Sex in the Therapist’s Office and the Emergency Room” in Critical & Experimental: Dimensions in Gender and Sexual Diversity (Pgs. 141 – 159). Edited by Karian, Previn. Eastleigh, UK: Resonance Publications.
2015 Sheff, Elisabeth and Tesene, Megan. “Consensual Non-Monogamies in Industrialized Nations” in the Handbook of Sexualities edited by DeLamater, John and Plante, Rebecca. Pgs 223-242. New York: Springer.
2014 Sheff, Elisabeth. The Polyamorists Next Door: Inside Multiple Partner Relationships and Families. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
2014 Sheff, Elisabeth. “Not Necessarily Broken: Redefining Success when Polyamorous Relationships End” in Selves, Symbols and Sexualities: Contemporary Readings, edited by Newmahr, Staci and Weinberg, Thomas. Chapter 14, 201 – 214. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2013 Goldfeder, Mark and Sheff, Elisabeth. “Children in Polyamorous Families: A First Empirical Look,” The Journal of Law and Social Deviance. Volume 5, pages 150 – 243.
2011 Sheff, Elisabeth. “Polyamorous Families, Same-sex Marriage, and the Slippery Slope” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 40(5): 487 – 520.
2011 Sheff, Elisabeth and Hammers, Corie. “The Privilege of Perversities: Race, Class, and Education Among Polyamorists and Kinksters” Psychology & Sexuality 2(3): 198-223.
2010 Sheff, Elisabeth. “Strategies in Polyamorous Parenting” in (Eds.) Barker, Meg and Langdridge, Darren, Understanding Non-monogamies. Pages 169 – 181. London: Routledge.