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Gender, Place & Culture
A Journal of Feminist Geography
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Remapping desire

Locating sex: regional geographies of sexual social media

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Pages 424-440 | Received 27 Oct 2021, Accepted 04 Jul 2022, Published online: 16 Sep 2022

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