Promoting easy sex without genuine intimacy: Maxim and Cosmopolitan cover lines and cover images

Critical Thinking About Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media: Media Literacy Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 49-65

  Johnson, Sammye ^a  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410614667     Document Type: Chapter

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