Putting the romance back into sex: Sexuality in romantic relationships

Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 213-233

  Lefkowitz, Eva S ^a   Gillen, Meghan M ^a   Vasilenko, Sara A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511761935.012     Document Type: Chapter

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