What Does Heterosexuality Mean? Same-Sex Attraction, Behaviors, and Discomfort Among Self-identified Heterosexual Young Adults from Spain.
Sexuality has been censored by Spanish culture, where legal progress in the form of new policies about sexual diversity rights has not been followed by lower levels of social discrimination. This has affected sexual development across the lifespan for both sexual minorities and heterosexual people w...
| Publicado en: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 51; no. 7; pp. 3431 - 3443 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2022
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