Sex in America online: An exploration of sex, marital status, and sexual identity in internet sex seeking and its impacts

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-186

  Albright, Julie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; COMPULSION; DIVORCE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; FILM; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; LESBIAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MARRIAGE; MASTURBATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; UNITED STATES; BISEXUALITY; HUMAN RELATION; LIBIDO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; EROTICA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIBIDO; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54749090101     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224490801987481     Document Type: Article

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