Extramarital sexual relationships of middle-aged Danish men: Attitudes and behavior

Maturitas

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-59

  Solstad, Kim ^a   Mucic, Davor ^b  

^a GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attitudes behavior discrepancies; Extramarital sexual relationship; Middle aged men; Social norms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DENMARK; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MARRIAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; EXTRAMARITAL RELATIONS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0033012874     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5122(99)00012-2     Document Type: Article

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