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Original Articles

Facilitating and Inhibiting Factors for Self-Reports of Same-Gender Attraction in Cisgender Heterosexual-Identifying Women and Men

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Pages 1155-1167 | Received 29 Jun 2018, Accepted 20 May 2019, Published online: 09 Jul 2019

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