From calvin klein to Paris Hilton and MySpace: Adolescents, sex, and the media

Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 484-507

  Brown, Jane D ^a   Strasburger, Victor C ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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