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Chapter 11 - Can Better Sex Education Tackle the Rise in Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2019

Sarah M. Creighton
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University College London Hospital
Lih-Mei Liao
Affiliation:
University College London Hospital
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Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery
Solution to What Problem?
, pp. 99 - 106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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