Sex Differences in Response to Visual Sexual Stimuli: A Review

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Archives of Sexual Behavior

• Publication date

  2008-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/S10508-007-9217-9PMID 17668311PMCID PMC2739403
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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