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Hamilton, L.D., De Santis, C. & Thompson, A.E. Introduction to the Special Section on Consensual Non-Monogamy. Arch Sex Behav 50, 1217–1223 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02055-z
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