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What Is Sexuality?

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Sexual Life

Part of the book series: Critical Issues in Psychiatry ((CIPS))

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Sexuality is an everpresent, ever-evolving, multifaceted possession of every human being. Encased in five layers of privacy, it contains the subtle dramas of our development.

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Levine, S.B. (1992). What Is Sexuality?. In: Sexual Life. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0852-0_1

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