Marriage, Cohabitation, and Sexual Exclusivity: Unpacking the Effect of Marriage.
Sexual concurrency, or having temporally overlapping sexual partnerships, has important consequences for relationship quality and individual health, as well as the health and well-being of others embedded in larger sexual networks. Although married and cohabiting couples have similar, almost univers...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 97; no. 3; pp. 1231 - 1257 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2019
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