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Are Healthy Parental Attachments and Resilience to Societal Objectification Basic to Women’s Sexual Health?

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1M9, Canada

    Rosemary Basson

  2. Sexual Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Rosemary Basson

  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Rosemary Basson

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Basson, R. Are Healthy Parental Attachments and Resilience to Societal Objectification Basic to Women’s Sexual Health?. Arch Sex Behav 48, 1683–1687 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1314-4

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