Exploring marital sexuality: Peeking inside the bedroom and discovering what we don’t know-but should!

The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 371-384

  Scott Christopher, F ^a   Kisler, Tiffani S ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410610249-25     Document Type: Chapter

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