Behavioral and relational contexts of adolescent desire, wanting, and pleasure: Undergraduate women's retrospective accounts

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 511-524

  Bay Cheng, Laina Y ^a   Robinson, Adjoa D ^a   Zucker, Alyssa N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COITUS; CONTROL; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LESBIAN; LIBIDO; MOTIVATION; PLEASURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; COITUS; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIBIDO; MOTIVATION; PLEASURE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS;

EID: 75449115771     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224490902867871     Document Type: Article

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