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‘Basically, it’s sorcery for your vagina’: unpacking Western representations of vaginal steaming

Tycho VandenburgSchool of Psychology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Virginia BraunSchool of Psychology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New ZealandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 470-485 | Received 20 Apr 2016, Accepted 13 Sep 2016, Published online: 10 Oct 2016

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