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Volume 16, 2010 - Issue 1: Child Sexual Abuse and the Internet: Offenders, Victims and Managing the Risk
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A content analysis of a “boy love” support forum: Revisiting Durkin and Bryant

Elaine O'Halloran University College Cork, Applied Psychology, Cork, IrelandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ethel Quayle University of Edinburgh, School of Health in Social Science, COPINE Research, Clinical and Health Psychology, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK
Pages 71-85 | Published online: 15 Feb 2010

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