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Constructing the ‘respectable' client and the ‘good' researcher: the complex dynamics of cross-gender interviews with men who pay for sex

Pages 19-33 | Received 02 Apr 2015, Accepted 07 Nov 2015, Published online: 18 Dec 2015

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