"A Safe Way to Explore": Reframing Risk on the Internet Amidst Young Gay Men's Search for Identity

Journal of Adolescent Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 453-478

  Pingel, Emily S ^a   Bauermeister, Jose A ^a   Johns, Michelle M ^a   Eisenberg, Anna ^a   Leslie Santana, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV; Internet; LGBT; sexuality; young men

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878382464     PISSN: 07435584     EISSN: 15526895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0743558412470985     Document Type: Article

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