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This research was sponsored through the Delancey Street Foundation by the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape, National Institute of Mental Health, Grant Number RO1 MH 32782, Mimi H. Silbert, Principal Investigator. We would like to thank Teri Lynch, Auristela Frias, JoAnn Mancuso, Charlotte Martin, and Alice Watson for their assistance in developing the instrument and in collecting the data.

Correspondence should be sent to Mimi H. Silbert, President, Delancey Street Foundation, 2563 Divisadero Street, San Francisco California 94115. For reprints, send stamped self-addressed envelope.

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Silbert, M.H., Pines, A.M. Pornography and sexual abuse of women. Sex Roles 10, 857–868 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00288509

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