'When you come to it you feel like a dork asking a guy to put a condom on': Is sex education addressing young people's understandings of risk?

Sex Education

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-119

  Abel, Gillian ^a   Fitzgerald, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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EID: 33646348747     PISSN: 14681811     EISSN: 14720825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14681810600578750     Document Type: Article

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