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Wanting Women: Sex, Gender, and the Specificity of Sexual Arousal

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Diamond, L.M. Wanting Women: Sex, Gender, and the Specificity of Sexual Arousal. Arch Sex Behav 46, 1181–1185 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-017-0967-8

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