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Research Articles

Visualising the ‘real’ and the ‘fake’: emotion work and the representation of orgasm in pornography and everyday sexual interactions

Pages 386-398 | Received 04 Sep 2013, Accepted 11 Jul 2014, Published online: 05 Sep 2014

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