Sexuality in close relationships

Close Relationships: Functions, Forms, and Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 267-284

  Sprecher, Susan ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203782972     Document Type: Chapter

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