The pleasure deficit: Revisiting the "Sexuality connection" in reproductive health

International Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 133-139

  Higgins, Jenny A ^a   Hirsch, Jennifer S ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HUMAN; NOTE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNWANTED PREGNANCY;

CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 35649026732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 01903187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/3313307     Document Type: Note

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