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Propping up pharma’s (natural) neoliberal phallic man: pharmaceutical representations of the ideal sexuopharmaceutical user

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Pages 422-437 | Received 22 Feb 2016, Accepted 03 Sep 2016, Published online: 21 Sep 2016

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