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‘Everywhere they say that it’s harmful but they don’t say how, so I’m asking here’: young people, pornography and negotiations with notions of risk and harm

Sanna SpišákDepartment of Media Studies, Turku University, Turku, FinlandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 130-142 | Received 01 Mar 2015, Accepted 03 Aug 2015, Published online: 25 Sep 2015

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