Sexual needs, control, and refusal: How "doing" class and gender influences sexual risk taking

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 233-245

  Higgins, Jenny A ^b   Browne, Irene ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIBIDO; MALE; PERCEPTION; RESEARCH; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); RISK-TAKING; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 51149090566     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224490802204415     Document Type: Article

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