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None of the Above: Toward Identity and Community-Based Understandings of (A)sexualities

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  1. For a discussion of the distinction between paraphilias and paraphilic disorders, see Zucker and Duschinsky (2016).

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    Kristin S. Scherrer

  2. Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

    Carla A. Pfeffer

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Scherrer, K.S., Pfeffer, C.A. None of the Above: Toward Identity and Community-Based Understandings of (A)sexualities. Arch Sex Behav 46, 643–646 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0900-6

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