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Fashions in Genital Fashion: Where Is the Line for Physicians? Commentary on Veale and Daniels (2011)

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Levine, S.B. Fashions in Genital Fashion: Where Is the Line for Physicians? Commentary on Veale and Daniels (2011). Arch Sex Behav 41, 735–736 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-011-9849-7

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