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Research Article

Sexual agency as situational: Moving beyond neoliberal understandings of sexual agency when investigating young people’s alcohol intoxicated sexual encounters

Received 26 Jan 2023, Accepted 03 Jul 2023, Published online: 10 Jul 2023

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