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Psychological Functioning and Violence Victimization and Perpetration in BDSM Practitioners from the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom

@inproceedings{Gemberling2015PsychologicalFA,
  title={Psychological Functioning and Violence Victimization and Perpetration in BDSM Practitioners from the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom},
  author={Tess M. Gemberling and Robert J. Cramer},
  year={2015},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:44060284}
}
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