Peers, Parents and Pornography: Exploring Adolescents' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Material and Its Developmental Correlates

Sexuality and Culture

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 408-427

  Weber, Mathias ^a   Quiring, Oliver ^a   Daschmann, Gregor ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Developmental tasks; Peer group; Pornography; Sexual socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867097998     PISSN: 10955143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12119-012-9132-7     Document Type: Article

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