S/he loves me, s/he loves me not: Questioning heterosexist assumptions of gender differences for romantic and sexually motivated behaviors

Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-74

  Missildine, Whitney ^a   Feldstein, Gideon ^a   Punzalan, Joseph C ^a   Parsons, Jeffrey T ^a,b  

^a Center for HIV AIDS Educational Studies and Training   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LESBIAN; LOVE; MALE; OBSESSION; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 20144381677     PISSN: 10720162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10720160590933662     Document Type: Article

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