Associations Between Patterns of Sexual Initiation, Sexual Partnering, and Sexual Health Outcomes from Adolescence to Early Adulthood.
The goal of this study was to examine, in a nationally representative sample, relationships between various sexual initiation patterns, subsequent sexual partnerships, and related health outcomes from adolescence through early adulthood. Data were from a subset of 6587 respondents from the National...
| Publicado en: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 1791 - 1811 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2018
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