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Features: National perspectives

“I provide the pleasure, I control it”: sexual pleasure and “bottom” identity constructs amongst gay youth in a Stepping Stones workshop

Pages 117-126 | Received 23 Jun 2015, Accepted 25 Nov 2015, Published online: 17 Dec 2015

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