The meaning of heterosexual intercourse among women with female orgasmic disorder

Gurit E Birnbaum1

  • 1Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel. birnbag@mail.biu.ac.il

Archives of Sexual Behavior
|February 25, 2003
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