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Foreign Travel, Transnational Sex, and Transformations of Heterosexualities

Feeling sexual transgression: subjectivity, bodily experience, and non-normative hetero-erotic practices in women's cross-border sex in Costa Rica

Pages 257-273 | Received 27 Jun 2013, Accepted 11 Aug 2014, Published online: 09 Jan 2015

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