"anything from making out to having sex": Men's negotiations of hooking up and friends with benefits scripts

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 414-424

  Epstein, Marina ^a   Calzo, Jerel P ^a   Smiler, Andrew P ^b   Ward, L Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; SEXUALITY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; COURTSHIP; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; NEGOTIATING; SEXUAL PARTNERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149113250     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224490902775801     Document Type: Article

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