Movement, friction, and cultural navigation in the cultural psychology of sexuality

This commentary reads the special issue as an invitation to move from a psychology of cultural membership towards a psychology of cultural navigation. Across the issue, sexuality is examined through migration, intergenerational change, ageing, peer norms, digital platforms, service systems, and racialised and colonial structures. Not all contributions adopt this movement-oriented view equally; some retain more bounded national, regional, or comparative cultural frames. Yet, together, the articles show that sexual meanings, identities, pleasures, vulnerabilities, and possibilities are made as people encounter and negotiate multiple normative worlds.