Arousal loss related to safer sex and risk of pregnancy: Implications for women's and men's sexual health

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 150-157

  Higgins, Jenny A ^a   Tanner, Amanda E ^b   Janssen, Erick ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONDOM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIBIDO; MALE; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; UNSAFE SEX; UNWANTED PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIBIDO; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNPLANNED; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 69949133063     PISSN: 15386341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/4115009     Document Type: Article

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