'Relationships based on love and relationships based on needs': Emerging trends in youth sex culture in contemporary urban Vietnam

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 287-313

  Nguyen, Phuong An ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; URBAN SOCIETY; YOUNG POPULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; HANOI; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 33846543175     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: 14698099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X05002258     Document Type: Article

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